Hello Parents!
First, a few reminders:
Monday (tomorrow): send in your School Picture packets: School Photos will be taken on Tuesday. Please send in the order form even if you aren't ordering the photos and that way you will still get a class photo.
Thursday, Sept. 25: our first Four Winds lesson: All sorts of Insects. We love our Four Winds lessons, and we love our Four Winds parent volunteers! Thank you, Allison, Brennan, and Kate, for your enthusiasm, your smarts, and your hard work.
Friday, September 26th, 9:00 a.m: we take a field trip to The Shelburne Museum. The title of the trip: Passport to Learning. We' d love to have parents or grandparents join us as chaperones. If you haven't already contacted me, please let me know if you are interested.
Thursday, October 2nd: Come to our Horizon Team Breakfast (7:30 am in Horizon.)
Wednesday, October 8th: Student-Picture retake day.
Now, some class news:
Tech lab: please email your child. That way he or she can easily email back to you. your child's address would go like this:
davidbolger@cssu.org (if I were a student). Students can also access their email from home (from the WSD home page). Password:bolger12
My Communication to You: I will continue to send quick notes via email, but I will also be sending you links via email to our Bolgerclassblog approximately once per week. The blog is nice because I can upload pictures to it more easily, and you can scroll down through prior blog posts in case you have missed any info from previous weeks. You can access the Bolgerclassblog by Googling that name, or you can click on that first link at the bottom of any of my emails.
Does rotting fruit get lighter or heavier? (Shhhhh. Don't spill the beans!) After a week of close observation and data collection (see the pictures in the sidebar) the students have concluded that fruit gets lighter after a week of being left out.
But why? About half of the students hypothesize that the fruit has gotten lighter because the "heavy" water in the fruit evaporated. The other half hypothesized that the fruit got lighter because the fruit flies that came must have eaten the fruit. Stay tuned as your children now design an experiment to answer that question.
That's all for now. have a great beginning of the week. Hope to see you at the Breakfast!
Mr. Bolger
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