First of the Year All School Assembly Friday, 9-04-2011

Please Note Important Changes:

School starts at 8:20 a.m.

Buses will arrive at 8:00 a.m. and unload on Park Avenue. Click for Bus Schedules

Walkers and riders will arrive no earlier than 8:00 a.m.

1st Day of School for students in grades 1-5 is August 25.

All Kindergarteners start August 30th.

Dismissal from School:

All students riding buses will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m. (This is a new change!)

Buses will load on Park Avenue and depart at 2:45 p.m.

All other students will be dismissed at 2:45 p.m.:

• K-3 walkers/riders leave from Park Ave. near Upper Playground
• 4-5  walkers/riders leave from  Loomis Street side of School, but
• 4-5 walkers/riders with a K-3 sibling will leave from the K-3 side: Park Ave. near the Upper Playground.

We, the Montpelier Police Dept., and the Safe Routes School Coordinator believe this plan will provide for safe and orderly transitions to and from school. Thanks for your support!

Owen Bradley, Principal

Welcome to Year 5 of the UES Healthy Snack Program! Yup, 5 years of organic, locally-grown, TASTY snacks!

Snacks won't start until Monday, August 30th. Students will need to bring snacks from home Wednesday, August 25th  through Friday, the 27th.

What's New?

Second graders in Ms. Slesar's class spent several weeks focusing our writing on "writing to inform" or report writing. We used organizational structures to organize information with a given focus and topic and provided details and information relevant to the topic as based on our second grade GLEs. As a culminating project, we learned that there are many different ways to inform an audience about information. One of those ways is using technology. After completing our final drafts of our written reports, we created storyboards for slides to put into a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. We then spent several class periods in the computer lab creating our slides. When they were complete, they were strung together to make a final movie.

A Long Anticipated Moment for Emme Erdossy's 2nd Graders

Worm Compost!

All year long, Emme Erdossy's 2nd graders have patiently and lovingly cared for their vermicomposting project.

What is vermicomposting you might ask? Ms. Erdossy's class would tell you it's a lot of worms in a worm apartment complex that the students stock with their snack and other food scraps. The worms do the job of turning the food scraps into nutrient-rich soil. Today was the day to give the worms a break and get the compost out! The students, who have also been studying soil types as part of their science curriculum, have decided to improve the soil of one of the UES planting beds. They will add their compost soil to the bed and then plant potatoes to harvest next fall. Who ever thought worms could be so cool?