A note about tech night, and field trip reminder.

Hey gang, this is a quick note to pass some information about tech night, as well as serve as a reminder.

First the reminder.  We are going on our final field trip on Monday.  We will be going to Boulder Beach with our Kindergarten Buddies for some fun and splashing.  Please make sure your student is prepared to spend a day outside. 

Information about Tech Night:

Dear EMES Community,

Join us on Tuesday June 12th from 5:30-7:15 for EMES Tech Night.

Schedule of events:

5:30-6:15 Presentation of Student Projects

5th & 6th Grade - Green Screen videos & Mindstorm Robotics

4th Grade - Book Trailers & Racecar Robots

3rd Grade - Traditional Tales, East Montpelier Interview Project, and Pullbot Robots

2nd Grade - Character Trading Cards, Flooding the model, & Dancing Bird Robots

1st & 2nd - Character Trading Cards & Dancing Birds Robots

1st Grade - KIBO Robot design engineering challenge & Book Buzzes

K - Book Buzzes

6:15- 7:00 Learn How to ….use a Green Screen, Program a Robot and more from the Tech Club (learning stations designed and run by Tech Club)

6:45-7:00 cake in the cafeteria

7:00-7:15 Prizes in the Gym

Tech Night is celebration of student work and a time to explore technology tools.  

We hope to see you next Tuesday

• EMES Tech Club

P.E. Lab was a total success!

Yesterday we had our second P.E. Lab of the year.  We spent the morning at Wrightsville Reservoir canoeing and playing disc golf.  This was such a wonderful opportunity to build transferable skills, build some physical skills, and have a wonderful time outside!  There are a few photos in the photos tab to check out.

Also, we have started investigating the world of decimals!  Our bridge to this world is money, we have been working to add together different coins in our monetary system.  Today a student observed "Hey!  When you add these together it is just like adding regular numbers, but instead of 100, it is just 1!"  What a wonderful observation.  We also started work multiplying some decimals, again based on money.  We were working on things like: Jack has 17 quarters in his pocket (man that must be heavy!), and he found 5 more on the street.  How much money does he have now?

After our trip to the State House last Friday we have been investigating things that we saw there that stuck with us.  A few students are interested in learning about the statue of Ceres, some have focussed on the catamount, others are looking into George Dewey, while still others are investigating the Vermont timeline mural that we saw! 

As we get ready for summer, families sometimes want some summer practice to help their students skills stay sharp.  If you, or your student, are interested in this, please let me know and I will get things organized.

-Dave