Happy Holidays!

Greetings families!

This week we read many holiday books during read aloud. We read: So Many Gifts by Anne Marie Pierce, The Winter Solstice by Ellen Jackson, Hershel and the Hannukah Goblins by Eric A. Kimmel, and Jingle Bells as told by Iza Trapani (looking at Christmas celebrations around the world).

We finished writing and editing our star myths. We also looked at samples of star myths written by former first and second graders. Students worked together to read these samples to see if they had all the right parts to a narrative and then to give advice for what the author could do to make his/her writing even better. This will help us to give writing advice to each other when we do our peer conferencing during each editing process.

It was a week of special events! We had an All School Meeting on Wednesday where we sang "Zum Gali Gali" to celebrate the Winter Solstice. On Thursday we visited the fifth/sixth grade classrooms to check out their science projects--they were awesome! Friday afternoon was our Winter Solstice celebration. We included many of the same aspects to our celebration as many cultures around the world have in the past: gathering together for joyful feasting, celebrating the return of the sun with candlelight, decorating with evergreens, and giving gifts to one another (Secret Snowflake). Thanks to all of you for helping to make this celebration possible!

I hope you all have a happy and healthy holiday break. See you back in the new year!

💗 Mrs. Fox

Dates to Remember
Mon.- Fri. December 26-30 - Holiday Break --No School
Mon. January 2 - 1st day back in the new year
Fitness Fridays - 12:30-3:30 on Jan. 13, 20, 27; Feb. 10, 17

Highlights 12-16-16

Hello families!

This week we wrapped up our sound unit with a fun engineering project: making cup telephones. Students worked with a partner to made different models, testing different types of strings and sizes of cups. They had a great time!

We continued reading star myths as well as informational books about stars and constellations. We read a few star myths that my past classes have written as well as a few student examples. A few of the read aloud books this week were: Rainbow: A Sioux Myth, When the Sun Fell from the Sky: A Yurok Story retold by D.L. Birchfield, What Are Stars? by Carmen Bredeson, and The Big Dipper by Franklyn M. Branley.

As a class we wrote our own star myth story about how the unicorn constellation came to be. Here it is!

How Unicorn Became a Constellation

By The First & Second Grade Fox Kits 2016-2017

                A long, long time ago, a unicorn, a giraffe, a flying squirrel, a crab, a bunny, a monkey, and a great dog were flying friends. They lived in a land called Jungle Land. Jungle Land was a huge, fun animal village. They all knew each other and protected each other. It had a beach near the cave so Crab could have its own happy place. In the jungle there were lots of trees so Monkey could swing from vine to vine.

The flying friends wanted to have a party in a cave. They wanted to decorate the cave with vines and flowers from the jungle for the party! So Monkey went to find vines, Unicorn went to find flowers, and the rest of the animals went to find leaves. When they all got back to the cave they found out that Unicorn’s hoof had gotten stuck between some rocks in the cave. The cave was dark and rocky. It was hard to see and walk in there! The animals tried to help Unicorn get out. They tried and tried but they couldn’t do it. So Unicorn tried again. She tugged again so hard that when her hoof got free she fell and bumped her magic horn and dented it. She tried to light it up but she couldn’t.

Unicorn didn’t know what to do. Suddenly she had an idea! She flew up into the sky and became a constellation. It lit up the whole cave and the night sky. The friends rejoiced for the unicorn and all the light and happiness she gave them. Finally the flying friends decorated the cave and had the party. Now it was a goodbye party for Unicorn! They could still see and talk to her in the night sky. Take a look at the night sky—you might find her there!

At the end of this week students chose a constellation of their own and began to plan their own star myth narratives!

We also worked on some fun holiday crafts this week. On Friday children took home snowpeople and snowcreatures they made. Here are pictures of a few of our creative kids and their handiwork!

This week our school had quite a few children and adults sick with a stomach bug. Be sure to drink plenty of water, wash hands, and rest up! Please remember to keep sick kids at home. Students must be fever free without medication for 24 hours before returning to school. If your child has vomited, please wait a full 24 hours after the last incident before allowing your child to return to school. Please contact the health office if you have any questions or concerns at 223-5429 x 2114. Thank you!


Dates to Remember
**Wed. December 21 - All School Meeting 9:15-10:00 **date change!
Fri. December 23 - Winter Solstice Celebration (a couple of days after the real Winter Solstice) & Gift Exchange 1:45-3:15
Mon.- Fri. December 26-30 - Holiday Break --No School
Mon. January 2 - 1st day back in the new year

Highlights 12-9-16

Hello families!

What a wonderful, snowy week!

This week we finished reading our Magic School Bus chapter book, Space Explorers. We learned a lot about the planets and other things in our solar system. We read a related (but very fictional) story, Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner. We also began to learn about stars and constellations. If you're out with your kids at night see if you can spot any constellations! We read Zoo in the Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations by Jacqueline Mitton. This is a beautifully illustrated National Geographic book! We also have begun reading a few Native American star myths about how some constellations ended up in the sky in the collection of stories entitled Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children collected by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac. We'll continue reading stories in this theme next week.

Second grade mathematicians have been working on: even/odd number patterns; doubles, near doubles, 2 apart numbers; place value review work; subtraction strategies; and relating missing addends to subtraction.

We did a few more sound experiments this week--noticing how sound travels, where sound travels, and how sound affects other things. We also learned about bird migration during 4 Winds with Karen and Abby!

We have finished illustrating our next small moment story. We learned that small moment stories are just one kind of narrative. Narratives can be real or made-up. All narratives have a beginning, middle, and end. They all have characters and a setting. Sometimes they have a problem and a solution. We're looking closely at what makes a story a narrative as we get ready to write our own fictional narratives!

On Thursday many kids in our class were having a very interesting conversation about where words come from and how people understood each other before there were words. Since so many were interested in the topic we made some time on Friday to listen to an episode of the VPR podcast "But Why?: A Podcast For Curious Kids." In case you're also interested, here's a link to the episode and accompanying article: Who Invented Words?


Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• We had a good week.
• On Friday, today, we upgraded Om Petalhead. She's our champ in GoNoodle. (We don't really know if it's a girl or a boy champ.)
• We made cards for Veda this week because she's moving to Virginia.
• We had all of our regular specials this week.
• Some people finished writing and/or illustrating small moment books this week. It was great to learn people's stories.
• We watched videos about vibration. We learned that if you make a sound things can move because of the sound.
• We learned that there should be a lot of people a long time ago who invented words. These words have changed over time.
• We got new classroom jobs.
• We rolled a big, giant snowball out at recess.
• In Spanish we highlighted fruit words.
• We had 4 Winds and we studied birds. We played a game about bird migration and how birds might crash into things if there are distracting lights while they migrating.

Dates to Remember
**Wed. December 21 - All School Meeting 9:15-10:00 **date change!
Fri. December 23 - Winter Solstice Celebration (a couple of days after the real Winter Solstice) & Gift Exchange 1:45-3:15
Mon.- Fri. December 26-30 - Holiday Break --No School
Mon. January 2 - 1st day back in the new year

Our Puppeteers!

Thanks to all who came to support our puppeteers today. Here are pictures we took this morning!

"cat in a hat"

"squirrel in a curl"

"poodle in a noodle"

"bear in hair"

"hen in a den"

"fox in socks"

"squirrel in a curl"

"shark in a park"

"bunny in honey"

"monkey in something funky"

"cat in a hat"

"squirrel in a pearl"

"cat in a hat"

"fox in socks"

"snake in a cake"

"bear in a snare"

HOW 12-1-16

Hello again!

We've had a wonderful week together despite the many changes to our schedule throughout the week to accommodate our puppet practices and performance. I'm not at school tomorrow (Friday) so I'm posting this a day early for you. This afternoon was our puppet show. I hoped you like our creative rhymes and puppets in our song, "Oh-A Hunting We Will Go!"

This week I read individually with many students--checking on reading comprehension as well as new sight word acquisition. Next week we'll mix up our reading groups a little bit. These new reading groups may not have children all reading at the same level but they are working on the same set of skills (i.e. vowel teams, decoding strategies, sight words, comprehension strategies, response to literature).

In second grade math we've begun studying a new set of fact families: Doubles (5+5, 6+6), Near Doubles (5+6, 6+7), and "2 Apart, Double the Middle" (6+8, 5+7) facts. We continue noticing patterns of odd and even numbers. 

We did 2 new science experiments this week related to sound. We made our own stringed instruments. We discovered many ways to produce sound and change the sounds we made. Then on another day students watched a video of "Kitchen Drawer Drums." Then they experimented with making varied beats and rhythms using pencils and classroom items. We also had an extra science time this week to look at daylight patterns during the last weeks of the fall season.

On Wednesday I sent home some information about our Winter Solstice celebration and Secret Snowflake gift exchange which will take place on our last school day before the holiday break. Thanks to many of you who already sent back confirmation about the gift exchange. Please let me know if you will be able to supply a $5 gift or if you need help in getting a gift so your child can participate.

Lastly, we are in need of some 5x7 envelopes for an upcoming project. We'll need about 40 of them. If you have any extras at your house you could donate please let me know!

Have a wonderful Friday and weekend!

Dates to Remember
Thurs. December 8 - 4 Winds 1:30-2:30 
Wed. December 14 - All School Meeting 9:15-10:00
Fri. December 23 - Winter Solstice Celebration (a couple of days after the real Winter Solstice) & Gift Exchange 1:45-3:15
Mon.-Fri. December 26-30 - Holiday Break --No School
Mon. January 2 - 1st day back in the new year

Mid-November Highlights

Hello parents!

It was great to meet with all of you for conferences in the past two weeks or so. Your children have been busy learning and growing this year! I'm thrilled to experience this with all of them! Here's our news from the past two weeks. Also please note there will be no blog post next week since it's such a short week!

This past Monday I sent home new Scholastic Book Order flyers. Please submit orders online or send in your order with a check by this upcoming Monday 11/21. If you order anything that you'd like to stay secret for a gift please let me know! Books make great holiday gifts and there is also a big selection of various holiday themed books that could be fun to read together as a family. Check them out!

We've done more science explorations about sound. We've been noticing and describing sounds, guessing about what is making the sounds, and experimenting with how sound is produced. On Friday we made kazoos with 3 different covering materials (tin foil, waxed paper, saran wrap). We compared how the sounds were the same and different and which material produced the best sound. Thanks for sending in all those cardboard tubes over the past few weeks--we couldn't have done this activity without them!

We shared our first small moment stories with one another and also read them to our 3/4 buddies on Friday. We began writing our next small moment stories during Writer's Workshop. First graders are focusing on adding more details and juicy words to describe what is happening. Second graders are encouraged to add many descriptive details about what people of feeling and thinking as well as dialogue to make their writing come to life.

This week we finished reading the compilation of short stories entitled, Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades. I read the class 3 versions of the same small moment story I wrote entitled, "Logan's Loose Tooth." We also read Scholastic News articles about Thanksgiving both from the perspective of the Native Americans as well as from the Pilgrims. Before Thanksgiving break we will also have read Oh, What a Thanksgiving! by Steven Kroll, Thanksgiving Is... by Gail Gibbons, and 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey.

We finished creating our puppets this week, with our artist in residence Barbara Paulson and also in our classroom on our own. We practiced singing our song with Dan Paulson. We had an All School Meeting on Friday.

Here's a link to an interesting article I came across this week about engaging your child in meaningful conversation about school. Check it out if you want to!

After Thanksgiving Break our "Lunch Bunch" will be changing. This new group will meet in a quiet space outside of the lunchroom to eat while practicing social skills. Your child may or may not be involved in this.

Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• It was Myles' and Adam's birthdays.
• We got a new champ named Om Petalhead in GoNoodle.
• We didn't have buddies but had an All School Meeting instead.
• We made kazoos because in science we were studying the vibrations.
• We made puppets with Mimi and Barb and sometimes Dan and also Ms. Campbell. We had 3 sessions to start and finish making our puppets! We were very, very excited.
• In Spanish we played a game like London Bridge is falling down, but in Spanish.
• We liked our new jobs this week.
• In first grade math we played a new game called Shut the Box--we can teach you at home!
• Some of us got Rumney CARES awards.
• We got a lot of sight words done. Next week we'll look at our tallies and think of how much bonus recess time we've earned so far!
• Lots of us got new sight word books to practice at home and at school!
• We used great cooperation in our class!
• Some of us finished writing our thankful hearts for Thanksgiving. We wrote in the hearts what we're thankful for. Look in the hallway by the classroom!
• A lot of us finished or got close to finishing our next small moment stories.
• Writing the Fox Kits Corner News today together was fun.

Dates to Remember
Wed-Fri Nov. 23-25 - Thanksgiving Break - No School
Thursday December 1 - Puppet Show 1:45 p.m.

Highlights from November 4th, 2016

Hello friends and families,

We've had another busy and fun-filled week. It started off with a fantastic Halloween party. Thanks to Michelle Alberghini and Laura Lafaille for organizing this for us! We also got to celebrate El Día de los Muertos with Sra. Donovan!

We read a couple more amazing small moment stories, Brave Irene by William Steig and Thundercake by Patricia Polacco. We noticed how adding many details and juicy words helps elaborate small moments in time. These details help us make a movie in our brains about what is happening in the story. Many students finishing writing, editing, and conferencing their first small moment stories. They are ready to be typed for publication!

We also did some fun rhyming together to get ready to make puppets to go along with the song "A-Hunting We Will Go." We brainstormed many animal rhymes and each child chose what rhyme they want to use for their puppets. We made sketches of our ideas and wrote out our song verses. We'll use these as we begin making our puppets next Monday (we're having our puppet workshops during our normal Art time).

We were also excited to begin our science unit on sound. We kicked off our unit by watching this video of a bee pollinating a poppy flower. We made our initial observations, drew diagrams of what we saw and noticed, and wrote our ideas about what the sound was and what we noticed about it, and what might be causing the sound.

This week in second grade math our amazing mathematicians worked independently or in small groups while I was doing in-class assessments with kids one-on-one or in small groups. Students worked on their "1,000  books" -- writing all the numbers to 1,000 (or at least up to 500 so far). They also practiced skip counting forwards by 10s and backwards by 100s within 1,000. We continue to work on number line strategies and think about numbers in terms of place value, quantity, and length. On Friday we had math game stations: trash can place value, compare place value (3 digit or 4 digit numbers), math man place value, and fruit splat addition (you choose the level!).

Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• Erin and Franki lost teeth this week!
• We LOVED our jobs.
• We got to upgrade Flo Yo yesterday (Thursday).
• We had fun writing our small moment stories. We were vigorously writing!
• We had buddies today (on Friday). It was fun and hard doing the hidden pictures and working together. Some of us finished one picture and went to another one.
• We got to sketch what our puppets will look like! We will do animal puppets in art to go with rhymes we made up for the song "A-Hunting We Will Go."
• In Guidance we talked about Kelso's Choices and BIG and small problems.
• We had a school garden snack today. It was butternut squash. We all had different opinions about if we liked it.
• We liked doing Fox Kits Corner.
• We loved the activities in music: fast and slow land, arioso land, string singing, and singing "There Was an Old Lady All Skin and Bones.
• We loved this week. This week will not be like any other week!

Dates to Remember
Monday November 7 - Puppet Show for No Strings Marionette Residency 9:30-10:10
Wednesday November 9 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (After School)
Thursday November 10 - 4 Winds 1:30-2:40
Friday November 11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (No School for Kids)
Wed-Fri Nov. 23-25 - Thanksgiving Break - No School
Thursday December 1 - Puppet Show (near the end of the day, time not yet decided)

HOW 10-28-16

Hello families!

We've had a fabulous week together. This week we began talking about another type of story we can read and write--small moments. These are stories from our real lives that tell about a small moment in life where we had a big feeling. There are lots of big feelings in life: joy, sadness, frustration, excitement, surprise, fright, anger. A small moment story can be about any of these! This week we zoomed in on our big feelings, planned out the beginning, middle, and ending parts of the story, and began to write our first drafts by stretching out each part of the story and adding details! We also read a bunch of great small moment books: Kitten's First Full Moon, The Snowy Day, Knuffle Bunny, The Paperboy, and various small moment stories written by some of my past students!

We finally got to add our last Literacy choice this week--Listen to Reading on the Computer! Last week our two student desk top computers were set up. This week we learned how we can listen to picture books, non-fiction books, or read along in chapter books using Tumblebooks. There is a link to this website always in the right-hand bar of our blog. You can use this at home, too, if you have a computer or tablet connected to the internet. Just plug in our username: rumney and our super-secret password (books). The site has a lot to offer--books your child can read along to or be read as well as videos and games to play (that we don't do during our Literacy choice).

The weather changed a lot this week from last week! Many kids at Rumney were cold at recess. Even though it's early in the season, please do help your child come to school prepared for the cold weather and snow. Please send coats, mittens/gloves, hats, boots, and snowpants. Additionally, during the long Vermont winter we like to have a pair of indoor shoes to wear in school so our floors don't get wet and muddy (making extra work for our custodial staff). If your child has an extra pair of sneakers or indoor shoes they can leave them here at school each day. Otherwise please send your child to school each day with a pair of indoor shoes they can change into while we are indoors.

Coming up next month is our school Artist in Residency, No Strings Marionettes. We'll be making puppets over 3 weeks during our Art classes on 11/7, 11/14, and 11/28. There will be an in-school performance on Thursday 12/1 (more info to come!).

Fun Fact! This is my 100th blog post! I began this blog as a way to communicate with families in my class 2 years ago. Over the years I've built it up more and added links to resources you can use at home and more information about our work here at school. This year we added our "Fox Kits Corner" which has turned into an amazing writing piece for our students as they learn to synthesize the events of the week and tell about the important learning and experiences they have at school. We learn about editing by adding to each others' ideas and how to relay the message more clearly with punctuation and font choices. I hope you are enjoying the blog and able to read it each week. It is really important to us!

Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• We were happy that costume day was today (Friday).
• We had squash as a garden snack today. Some of us liked it (or even loved it)!
• We liked our jobs.
• We got a new champ. His name is Flo Yo and we upgraded him today!!
• There is snow on the ground! Soon we can play in it at school at recess! We need snow pants, hats, boots, mittens, jackets, scarfs, and layer to keep us warm!
• We liked our writing this week because we all got to start writing our drafts for our small moment stories and added more details to make it even better. Some of us got to finish the writing part and started editing (this is when we check our writing).
• We started to think about what we know and what we wonder about sound. We are going to be learning about sound starting next week!
• It was fun having Mrs. Joslyn guess what we have for snack!
• It was fun learning about computers and having a turn during Literacy and Choice Time.
• We had games on Friday for math. In second grade we liked learning the "Math Man" computer game--everyone in Mrs. Fox's 2nd grade math class got a turn.
• We liked all doing Fox Kit Corner this week (which is right now)!

Dates to Remember
Next week it's our turn again for Lunch Bunch!
Monday October 31 - Low Key Halloween Party 2:50-3:25 - wear orange and black to school today if you want to!
Wednesday November 9 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (After School)
Thursday November 10 - 4 Winds 1:30-2:40
Friday November 11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (No School for Kids)
**Sign up for conferences on-line, http://grades.wcsuonline.org/rumney/conference/

Highlights 10/21/16

This week students were excited to finish the writing and editing processes for their "All About Me ABC" books. On Friday we shared our writing with our third/fourth grade buddies.

We continued our year-long science investigation about the sun and daylight. We collected data about two fall days this week. We were amazed by how much later the sun is coming up and how much soon it's setting than just a month ago during the summer season!

During our read aloud time we continue to read short stories from Rhinos and Raspberries and talk about social lessons we can learn from these folk tales. On Friday our nurse, Ms. Israel, also came in to share a book about diabetes, Taking Diabetes to School by Kim Gosselin. We learned a lot about how someone who has diabetes is very much the same as everyone else but has to do some different things to stay healthy.

Thanks to everyone who has already sent in cardboard tubes for our upcoming science unit. We are still in need of: small shoe-box size boxes, tin foil, waxed paper cups (small), plastic cups (medium and large). Please send some in if you have any!

Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• We finished our ABC books and read them to our buddies today. They really liked them!
• We liked going outside for recess every day and having fun with our friends.
• Every day we had a great day and we want to keep doing it!!!!
• We have important jobs in our classroom that we all need and love to do!
• In writer's workshop we did some more sentence fill-ins where we got to do fun and creative writing.
• We got to do a graph about daylight and dark hours on this Friday.
• We had a garden snack today. It was garlic bread and most people thought it was awesome!
• We got to learn about what an omnipod is. Ask me about it at home!
• We are excited about the "Hotel Transylvania" movie tonight (Friday) here in the Library at 6:30 (but you can come at 6:00 to get a good seat and popcorn). Wear a costume if you want to!
• We like being in this classroom because we get to learn fun stuff and it's fun!
• We are glad to write this Fox Kits Corner!
• We liked getting some math to do at home.

Dates to Remember
Friday October 28 - Halloween Dress Rehearsal. (Students may wear one part of their costumes to school but no masks, things covering faces, make-up, or scary/gross things) 
Monday October 31 - Low Key Halloween Party 2:50-3:25 - wear orange and black!
Wednesday November 9 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (After School)
Friday November 11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (No School for Kids)
**Sign up for conferences on-line, http://grades.wcsuonline.org/rumney/conference/

Highlights of the Week from 10-14-16

Hello friends and families,

This week we did many exciting things in our classroom. We've begun reading short stories together from a collection called Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades. These are folk tales from around the world that teach us more about acceptance and tolerance. We use these lessons in our everyday life when we relate to other people and friends. It also ties in well with our social studies unit about our personal histories and what makes us the same and what makes us different. We played a fun game, "Just Like ME!," that demonstrated this too. 

Leslie Johnson (a teacher of the deaf working here at Rumney) also came in again this week to read us a book about hearing loss and how we can more successfully talk to someone who has hearing aids or cochlear implants. She read The Elephant in the Room by Jim Bombicino. If you'd like more information about this, feel free to contact me or Leslie!

Our ABC All About Me books are nearing completion! We've been sharing a page or word a day with different friends but we can't wait to be able to read each others' books and learn more about each other!

On Thursday we scrubbed and chopped the potatoes we harvested last month with crinkle knives. Soon our cooks Deb and Sabrina will roast them into an all school garden snack! We also had our first 4 Winds with Karen. We learned about insects, their bodies, and two types of metamorphosis: simple and complete! We looked at insects Karen collected outside using our digital microscope!

Figuring out what pieces they need to finish the bumblebee metamorphosis cycle.

This group found all the pieces to the lady beetle metamorphosis cycle.

Some insects have wings.

This aphid had laid some eggs.

First and second grade mathematicians continue to work steadily on their strategies to add and/or subtract. They are practicing ways to use a number line (written or visual in their head). They are gaining more skills in how to explain their thinking or how to use varied strategies to figure something out or prove it.

In a couple of weeks we'll be beginning a new science unit. Here are some household items we'll need: cardboard tubes (from paper towels or toilet paper), small shoe-box size boxes, tin foil, waxed paper cups (small), plastic cups (medium and large). Please send some in if you have any!

Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:

• We liked our classroom jobs.
• We liked writing our ABC books in Writer's Workshop. Some people got to finish or get close to finishing!
• We liked cutting the potatoes for the school snack.
• We got to read books with our buddies today.
• We finished McPufferson and got a new champ. Our new champ is Penny Gee!
• We loved having lunch bunch this week!
• We got to see bugs laying eggs in 4 Winds. We saw bugs up close with a digital microscope that connected to the SMARTBoard.
• We liked using the parachute in P.E.
• We had a dance party in music!!!!

Dates to Remember:
Thursday October 20 - All School Meeting 9:15-10:00
Friday October 28 - Halloween Dress Rehearsal. (Students may wear one part of their costumes to school but no masks, things covering faces, make-up, or scary/gross things) 
Monday October 31 - Low Key Halloween Party 2:50-3:25 - wear orange and black!

Fall Parent/Teacher Conferences

October 14, 2016

Dear Families,


It’s time to check in about your child’s progress. Friday November 11th there is no school for students. Parent/Teacher conferences will be held during the day at Rumney. Conferences run for 20 minutes. Please be on time because conferences are scheduled back-to-back. 

Please sign up for a 20 minute conference slot so we can review your child's progress and work in school together. (If we already have a meeting scheduled to review your child’s progress in late October or early November please consider that your conference time. Do not sign up for an additional meeting time.)

Wednesday 11/9 conference times with me are between 3:20 pm and 5:30 pm.
Friday 11/11 conference times with me are between 8:00 am and 12:20 pm.

Please sign up for one conference time at this link:  http://grades.wcsuonline.org/rumney/conference/

Click on “Mrs. Fox” to check out which times are still available.

Any questions, please contact me directly!

You say potato, I say potato...

Hello everyone,
We had a fantastic morning prepping our garden potatoes for the all school garden snack tomorrow. Here are some pictures of our hardworking kids! We can't wait til snack tomorrow!!