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March 2016 BES Cougar Record Cougar Cubs of the month important dates 3-2 & 3-3 Early Dismissal 1:05 3-2 Mystery Reader 6-7 PM 3-9 Cultural Arts Huga Tuga Live Pep Rally for Reading 3-16 Early Dismissal 1:05 3-18 Family Read 1st Grade 2:45-3:15 3-21 Cultural Arts STEAM Museum 3-24 Report Cards Home 3-25 NO SCHOOL Message from the Principal Regional School District 17 is seeking qualified individuals to work as substute teachers. We offer regionally compeve pay for substutes. Qualificaons for subs- tute teachers include a Bachelor’s Degree (required) and experience working with children. A teaching cerficate is not required, but definitely a plus. Substute teaching is a great way to contribute to our schools for those who enjoy working with kids. Please visit the “Employment Opportunies” page of our district website (www.rsd17.org) for more informaon and to iniate an Dear Parents, Around February each year, I begin to take inventory about where we are and plan for the remainder of the year. I was really surprised by how much our kids and staff have done already! This year, among other things, we have: started a student council and sent them to a statewide leadership conference, created both staff and student groups to reduce our impact on the environment, partnered with the PTO and parent volunteers to plan out new learning gardens, planned two Mystery Reader Nights with the PTO, and got our Mak- er Space up and running. And this doesn’t even include the work being done in the class- room! February and March are also mes when the school gets to honor some students and vol- unteers. This year, Natalie Houlton, Elsa Kuehn, and their parents joined Mr. Filippides, Mr. Granucci, Mrs. Kelsey and me for the Conneccut Associaon of Schools’ Celebraon of the Arts this month. It was wonderful to recognize these two young ladies, and as I tell the students every year, in many ways, they represent the many talented arsts and musi- cians of Burr District Elementary. Likewise, we will recognize next week four of the many amazing and self-less volunteers we have. Thank you to Bridget Marshall, Karen Therrien, Azra Hussain, and Elize Nizet for the hours you put in for our students. BES would be a very different place without the army of volunteers like you who take me in our class- rooms, at PTO events, and supporng our children in their evenings at home. If you would like to be part of the garden club, we have a wonderful family acvity planned for March 17. Look for informaon to come. I wonder what the next 3 months will bring!

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BES COUGAR RECORD March2016

March 2016

BES Cougar Record

Cougar Cubs of the month important dates

3-2 & 3-3 Early Dismissal 1:05 3-2 Mystery Reader 6-7 PM 3-9 Cultural Arts Huga Tuga Live Pep Rally for Reading 3-16 Early Dismissal 1:05 3-18 Family Read 1st Grade 2:45-3:15 3-21 Cultural Arts STEAM Museum 3-24 Report Cards Home

3-25 NO SCHOOL

Message from the Principal

Regional School District 17 is seeking qualified individuals to work as substitute teachers. We offer regionally competitive pay for substitutes. Qualifications for substi-tute teachers include a Bachelor’s Degree (required) and experience working with children. A teaching certificate is not required, but definitely a plus. Substitute teaching is a great way to contribute to our schools for those who enjoy working with kids. Please visit the “Employment Opportunities” page of our district website (www.rsd17.org) for more information and to initiate an application. If you have any questions, please contact Larissa Johnson, Administrative Assistant to the Assistant Superintendent, 860-435-4534 x1110.

Dear Parents,

Around February each year, I begin to take inventory about where we are and plan for the

remainder of the year. I was really surprised by how much our kids and staff have done

already! This year, among other things, we have: started a student council and sent them

to a statewide leadership conference, created both staff and student groups to reduce our

impact on the environment, partnered with the PTO and parent volunteers to plan out

new learning gardens, planned two Mystery Reader Nights with the PTO, and got our Mak-

er Space up and running. And this doesn’t even include the work being done in the class-

room!

February and March are also times when the school gets to honor some students and vol-

unteers. This year, Natalie Houlton, Elsa Kuehn, and their parents joined Mr. Filippides,

Mr. Granucci, Mrs. Kelsey and me for the Connecticut Association of Schools’ Celebration

of the Arts this month. It was wonderful to recognize these two young ladies, and as I tell

the students every year, in many ways, they represent the many talented artists and musi-

cians of Burr District Elementary. Likewise, we will recognize next week four of the many

amazing and self-less volunteers we have. Thank you to Bridget Marshall, Karen Therrien,

Azra Hussain, and Elize Nizet for the hours you put in for our students. BES would be a

very different place without the army of volunteers like you who take time in our class-

rooms, at PTO events, and supporting our children in their evenings at home.

If you would like to be part of the garden club, we have a wonderful family activity planned

for March 17. Look for information to come. I wonder what the next 3 months will bring!

Have a wonderful March,

Eric

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Mrs. Bacewicz

Celebrating Chinese New Year!

Room 3 was so excited to cel-

ebrate Chinese New Year

with Larson's

mom, Mrs.McLaughlin! She

began by reading a book to

the class on the tradition of

Chinese New Year, and fol-

lowed up with a fun project

of Chinese dragon making!

Thank you, Mrs. McLaugh-

lin! We all learned a lot

about this very special Chi-

nese tradition!

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Mrs. Blasiak

Working as

Directors...

In reading workshop, the students have been working on learning about the characters in their books. They are exploring their feelings and character traits. They are also working hard to understand how their feelings af-fect the way the char-acters talk. They also have learned about dif-ferent clues the author puts into the sentences to help tell the reader or "actor" how to read their "part". Today the students worked in partners to act as directors. They listened to their partner read a page, and called "cut" when they heard or noticed their partner not sounding like the page should sound. They loved this partner time. It re-ally was a great way for students to practice their fluency and expression. Being "actors" learning

and practicing "lines" over and over was exciting for the children.

Mrs. Harkin

SLIME TIME!

2/12/2016

I'd like to

thank Mrs.

Spong for coming into our class today and

teaching us all about how slime is made!

She gave us a terrific lesson on solids and

liquids and introduced us to polymers. Af-

ter the lesson, it was experiment time! We

got to make our own cup of slime!!!!! This

was so fun and interesting too!

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Mrs. Harkin

BUSHY HILL

What an amazing day we had. We couldn't have

asked for better weather for our field trip to

Bushy Hill. We learned so many great things. Our

field trip consisted of three parts. We learned

about liquids and capacity with Miss Jen in the na-

ture center. We were amazed how the liquids fit in

all of the different containers. We learned about

pints, quarts and gallons. We then moved onto our

group with Mr. Brendan. He taught us how to iden-

tify a maple tree, how to see if it was ready to be

tapped, how to tap a tree and about circumference.

We even got to see a tree with buckets filling up

with sap. The next portion of our trip was with Mr.

Phil in the sugar shack. Here we learned how maple

syrup was made! We witnessed the sap/syrup as a

liquid, a gas and a solid. We got to sample freshly

made maple syrup and even got to try a piece of

maple sugar candy! As a bonus, Mr. Phil even

brought us to see a recreation of a wigwam, and we

got to sit inside of it. When this was complete, we

enjoyed our lunch in their beautiful nature center!

It was a super trip and we learned so much!

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BES COUGAR RECORD November 2015

FRIDAY FUN! HEARTS

AND SHIRTS!

Friday was full of excitement as we cele-

brated Valentines Day and Jersey Day!

We are very proud of Ian P. and Collin

for working together to plan and organize

such a great fundraiser for our school

makerspace. The kids also enjoyed a day

of learning with a Valentines twist. We

did Valentine math problems, Valentine

writing, enjoyed the love of reading with

our partners, and of course we had a blast

passing out and getting valentines from

our friends! It was a great day .

Mrs. Pommer

BUSHY HILL FIELD

TRIP

2/27/2016

The kids had an amazing trip! We learned a lot

about solids, liquids, and gases through the ma-

ple sugaring process. We even got to sample

some fresh maple syrup and maple candy.

Yum! Here are some highlights from our trip.

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Mrs. Zeidler

The girls and boys had a fun

time making this valentine

card for you!!! They got lots of

practice cutting and gluing!!!

Hope you enjoy it!!!

The children also worked to

make the valentine card hold-

er to put their valentines in!!!

We put all the holders out and

the kids went around and put

the valentines in their class-

mates' hearts! They had fun

doing it and I'm sure they en-

joyed reading and enjoying all

of the valentines at

home!!!! (We didn't want

them to get all mixed up in

school!!!)

Thanks for all your help with

the valentines!!!

Happy Valentine's

Day! 2/12/2016

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today we had a wonderful day cele-

brating our friendships in the class-

room! The students really enjoyed

guessing who their 'Secret Valentine'

was. They made beautiful valentine

cards to show each other how unique

and special each one of us is. Thank

you for your help with this project at

home.

A big thank you to Mrs. Sidlow for the

very cute Valentine craft that she did

with the class. They came out great!

And another big thank you to Mrs.

Therrien for making our day extra

sweet.

This truly is a wonderful class.

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Mrs. Kulmann

To celebrate the 100th day our class decided to attempt to

do 100 good deeds at home and school. It was amazing how

the children stepped up to the challenge! I was so impressed!

Peer editing and revising

The students have been helping each other edit and revise their stories. It is much fun to listen and watch them help one another during writing time!

WRITING CELE-BRATION WITH MRS. BACEWICZ'S 3RD GRADE AND MR. TALBOT'S 4TH GRADE CLASSES

On Wednesday, students from third grade visited a fourth grade classroom. Our students from 4th grade shared what they learned from the Informa-tional Multisource Synthe-sis Essay project. Third graders showed what they are learning in their poetry writing and talked about their animal reports.

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Mrs. Barse

LINE PLOTS! We took data on our shoe sizes to create a line plot.

Mrs. Atwood

We loved mak-

ing our sight

word crowns!

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Mrs. Lenahan

Rocks and Mineral Science Unit - Observing Minerals

Student Council

The Burr Student Council is busy planning our school's first student TALENT SHOW coming up this spring. Please save this date: THURS-DAY, JUNE 2nd. Students K-4 will be invited to share their talents with the school community on the evening of June 2nd. Save the date now and look for more information to come home soon! Burr District Gives Back

100th day PTO sponsored $258.46

Bracelets for Emma Becker $290.97

Wear Red American Heart Assoc. $70.00

Jersey Day PTO sponsored for Maker Space $132.00

Nathan Field’s Memorial $61.00

Relay f or Life Dress Down Days $575.00

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100 Day Fun Mrs. Atwood

Mrs. Bacewicz

Explore Time with Spaghetti and Marshmallows

Task: With your group try to construct a 3 dimensional tower that will remain standing using only

two materials- dried spaghetti and marshmallows.

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Notes from Mr. Granucci, in the Art Room

Thank-you parents, for sending in your recycled supplies for our sculpture unit. Students in grades K-4 have recently started their paper mache’ tropical fish and sea critters. Students are working in cooperative groups, problem solving while constructing their 3-dimensional re-cycled creations. Please continue to send in your recycled items. A complete list can be found on my blog page.

We continue to prepare for this year’s art show “Under The Sea” which will be May,3rd from 6:30 – 8:00 in the evening. Please be sure to mark your calendars. All the children have been working especially hard on their projects since September. I know you will be impressed with what your child has created this year both 2-D and 3-D. I hope you will make every effort to bring the whole family and friends on that night.

If any parent would like to help with hanging artwork for the art show, or taking down the art work after the art show, you can e-mail me at [email protected]., or reply at the end of this newsletter return slip. We will be hanging pictures and setting up for the show on Mon-day May 2nd , starting at 8:30am. It is extremely important that we have parental help with this task. We will start taking down the show the week of May 9th starting on Monday. It doesn’t have to come down all at once; A few hours anytime during that week would be appre-ciated. Help will be needed separating, sorting, and delivering the artwork to the classrooms. Please consider helping out our art show this year. The children are so excited about showing off their work. If you think you could assist in any way, please send in the reply at the bottom of this notice.

~Mr. Granucci

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Your Name_________________________________________________________________

Phone_____________________Email____________________________________________

Your child’s name___________________________________________________________

Hang Art Show——Tuesday Morning, May 2nd __________________________

(We hang the art work all day)

Take down Art Show-Week of May 9th ­­___________________________________

(Any time during the day or week)

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March has arrived, and while this winter has been relatively mild, I hope

you are looking forward to spring as much as I am! This month, I am excit-

ed to return to our third grade classrooms where we will begin a conflict

resolution unit. Conflicts are a natural part of any relationship, and it is

important for students to recognize different types of conflicts and un-

derstand a variety of strategies to resolve them.

I also look forward to visiting our first graders again, where our unit will

focus on mindfulness and positive thinking. These strategies will build on

our emotional identification unit from the fall, and help students learn to be in charge of their thinking.

Mr. Bergantino

Can We Still Be Active During Indoor Recess?

The answer is yes! This week students learned some new games to play during indoor recess. These

games require students to be safe and active. We developed some creative exercise routines and

played What's My Name and Bottom Basketball. The students did a great job maintaining a safe envi-

ronment and were very active in a small space. Please, ask them about their class.

Mrs. Kelsey

WELCOME TO THE ART ROOM!

Mrs. .Kelsey and her students have been very busy

these past few months. Now that the art show

is quickly approaching in both schools we will be work-

ing at top speed to finish up and create new works of

art for the BES(May 4th) and KES(May 25th) art

shows.

At BES my student have been working primarily in

3D with clay. The kiln is being loaded and unloaded

weekly with clay projects. Next we will start to work

with plaster craft and paper pulp celluclay. Also, all of

the students are participating in the square one Art

fundraiser sponsored by the BES PTO. You will be

receiving information from the PTO regarding this Art

fundraiser. All the students have been very excited

about creating art work for this special fundraiser. I am

still in need of newspapers, plastic containers and cof-

fee- mate containers.

Library News

Our iPads have become such a wonder-ful learning tool in the library and classrooms. Students in all grade lev-els have been researching, creating, and publishing with the iPads and it's led to such motivated learners who are producing great work! Check out the Burr library and/or grade level websites to see an "Adobe Voice" pro-ject by Kindergarteners and "Chatterpix" projects by 1st and 2nd grade students. Also check out the websites to see internet safety iMov-ies from 4th graders and internet safety glogs by 3rd graders. If you want to learn more about the positive impact our iPads are having on learning and instruction at Burr, stop by the library!

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Math Corner Winter keeps us inside more, cooking and baking yummy foods. Check out these ways to include math in the kitchen. Have you ever stopped to consider how often you count, measure, estimate, and compare when you are cooking? Your kitchen is rich with fun and yummy ways for your child to learn the basics of numbers, counting, and measuring.

Math Is Measurement! Almost every time you and your child cook or bake, you need to measure. Measuring teach-es your child how to make comparisons and estimations, as well as to explore the relation-ship of parts to wholes. Of course, your child is also counting and adding as he puts the ap-propriate number of tablespoons or cups in a concoction. These are all essential skills that will be useful in learning the more complex math skills needed later in school for geometry and algebra.

When measuring ingredients, you can have your child explore how many small cups are in a big cup, or how many little teaspoons are equal to a big tablespoon. (You might want to have some extra flour or salt available for mathematical exploration, so that you can keep your recipe accurate.) Older children can discuss the fractions on the measuring cups. Ask your child, “What could I do if I needed ½ cup of sugar, but the ½ cup measuring cup is not here?” or “What if we wanted to double this recipe?”

Have fun together in the kitchen! Try this recipe!

Oatmeal Energy Bites Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.com

Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup almond butter (or substitute peanut butter) 1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/3 cup honey 1/4 cup ground flaxseed or bran cereal Optional: add-ins such as raisins, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, and dried cherries Directions: In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together. Roll out teaspoon sized balls and place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Freeze until set about one hour. Enjoy and keep leftovers in a Ziploc bag in fridge or freezer. Makes about 20-24 energy bites. Excerpted from Scholastic.com parents website by D. Slowik, RSD17

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Bedtime stories: Reading Grows Brains!

By Perri Klass, M.D., Founder of Reach Out and Read, New York Times News Service

We know that reading to a child is associated with good outcomes. New studies examine the unexpectedly complex interactions that happen when you put a child on your lap and open a picture book.

The journal Pediatrics published a study that used functional magnetic res-onance imaging to study brain activity in 3- to 5-year-old children as they listened to age-appropriate stories. The researchers found that children whose parents reported more reading at home and more books in the home showed significantly greater activation of brain areas in a region of the left hemisphere called the parietal-temporal-occipital association cor-tex. This brain area is "a watershed region, all about multisensory integra-tion, integrating sound and then visual stimulation," said the lead author, John S. Hutton, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

"When kids are hearing stories, they're imagining in their mind's eye when they hear the story," said Hutton. The different levels of brain activation, he said, suggest that children who have more practice in developing those visual images, as they look at picture books and listen to stories, may de-velop skills that will help them make images and stories out of words later

on. The ability to create visual images is essential as children begin to read to themselves in books with little or no pictures.

We know that it's important that young children hear language. It turns out that reading to - and with - children may amplify the language they hear more than just talking. Researchers found that picture books contained more "unique word types" than language used by parents talking to their child. "Books contain a more diverse set of words than child-directed speech," said the lead author, Jessica Montag, an assistant research psycholo-gist at the University of California Riverside. "This would suggest that children who are being read to are hearing vocabulary words that kids who are not being read to are probably not hearing." Vocabulary knowledge helps readers to more easily understand what is happening when they are reading to themselves.

Your child is never too old to be read to! Reading books with children means that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words - and with the more complex sentences and vocabulary that make up even simple stories. And as every parent who has read a bed-time story knows, this is all happening in the context of face-time, of skin-to-skin contact, of the hard-to-quantify but essential mix of security and comfort and ritual.

For more information, contact Carmi Kowalewski, Literacy Coach, [email protected]

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Children’s Programs:

LEGO GROUP: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Grades K-4

MUSIC WITH MARGIE: Thursdays, 10:30 a.m., March

10th & 24th

2 ½ to 5yrs. Singing, dancing & musical fun! Limit 15. Please

register.

TERRIFIC TWOS STORY TIME: Fridays, 10:30 a.m., Jan

8 – March 11th

Welcomes toddlers 24-36 mos. Stories, songs, finger plays

and games.

PRE-SCHOOL STORY TIME: Tues. & Wed., 10:30 a.m.

Begins Jan 5th

Ages 3 - 5yrs: 2 sessions.

NUTMEG PLUS BOOK CLUB: Friday, March 18,: 4:00 p.m.

Age 12 & up Readers who like to discuss what they've read.

Refreshments served. “A Year Down Yonder” by Richard

Peck.

NUTMEG BOOK CLUB: Friday, March 25th Postponed to

April 1st: Library closed - Good Friday “One Boy and His

Dog” by Eva Ibbotson

Teen Programs:

TEEN ADVISORY BOARD (T.A.B.): 3rd Wednesdays,

6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Voice ideas for improved teen services and plan events!

Grades 7-12. Assists with: children's programming, YA ma-

terial selection, activities, and Library duties. Pizza served!

Registration required.

Adult Programs:

BRAINERD LIBRARY BOOK CLUB: Postponed to March

31st, 6:30 p.m.

Meets monthly. “Bossy Pants” by Tina Fey

HEALTHY EXCHANGE BOOK CLUB: 1st Wednesdays,

6:30 p.m. March 2nd “Being Mortal: Medicine and What

Matters in the End” by Atul Gawandehe. Monthly. Note:

Book Club Only – not Author Talk

COLORING CLUB FOR ADULTS: Saturday, March 19,

12:00 pm

Coloring books aren't just for kids anymore! Adult coloring

books are everywhere filled with intricate designs and pat-

terns inspired by nature and art. Come to the Library and

spend some time relaxing and coloring. We recommend

bringing a friend to join in on the fun! All supplies will be

provided. Feel free to bring a box lunch or snack.

1-ON-1 COMPUTER HELP!: Fridays, 12:30-3:00 p.m.

Drop in Computer Librarian, Kristen Carpentier, provides

assistance.

THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL - A THRU HIKE WITH SAM

DUCHARME 1-2:30: Saturday, March 12, 1-2:30 p.m. In

March last year, Sam Ducharme set out on a 2180 mile, 14

state backpacking trip from Springer Mountain, Georgia to

Mt. Katahdin Maine. During his 6 month journey, he docu-

mented the rugged beauty of the Appalachian Mountains;

the wildlife, hardships on the trail, and the people, culture

and humanity at its finest. Come join him as he takes us

through the trail towns, over the mountaintops and through

the backcountry. The images and stories will leave you with

a renewed awe of the beauty of our country and its people.

CHARITY KNITTING GROUP: 1ST Tuesday of the

Month, 6:30 p.m. Join us as we "Knit for Charity." We knit

scarves, chemo & newborn caps, finger puppets, and sereni-

ty shawls for Middlesex Hospital. We also knit for Haddam

Public Health and the VFW; warm scarves and hats to be

worn under helmets for our soldiers. Donations happily ac-

cepted!

ENCOURAGING WORDS WRITERS’ GROUP: Fridays,

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Open writers’ group meets bi-weekly. Tap into creativity

with timed- writing exercises. Share stories or essays based on as-

signed topics. More info: Tanja Moriarty, 860-614-5158. Registration

is not required.

CALLING ALL GARDENERS AND FARMERS! BML is in the early stages

of planning a May 14th “Agricultural Day.” Please contact us with

thoughts on how you’d like to participate or contribute to the

BRAINERD MEMORIAL LIBRARY EVENTS: MARCH 2016

Sign up for our Spring programs at www.brainerdlibrary.lioninc.org!

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