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WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OFFICE
Dear Woodstock Families,
Happy Fall to everyone! Our school
year is off to a great start. Our students
have been doing a nice job settling in to
their new classrooms. It has been great to
see our fifth graders taking on school jobs
so responsibly and learning to be role
models for the rest of the school.
We had a nice Open House! It was great
to see so many families come to this event.
In October we have quite a few events that
we hope to see you
at as well.
Coming up first
will be our annual
Walk to School
event. This will
be on Wednesday, October 2nd. Students
will be dropped off at the Rt. 232 end of
Rumford Avenue. We will then all walk
back to school. At 1:00 on October 10th we
will have Grandparent’s and Special
Friend’s Day. Grandparents and Special
Friends are invited to come into the
classrooms to do activities with students,
have refreshments and have a photo taken in
the library.
We also have a couple of PTA events
that are happening this month. On
Saturday, October 19th
we will hold our annual
Craft Fair and Silent
Auction from 9 to 3.
There will be many
crafts for sale, including our student’s
crafts. And, on Halloween we will have our
annual Halloween party in the gym
beginning at
12:45. We hope
that you will be
able to come to
these fun events!
This Monday
(September 30th) we will have our first
lockdown drill of the year. Students will be
told about this beforehand and lockdown
procedures will be reviewed. Throughout
the year we practice different types of safety
drills. In this newsletter you will find an
informational sheet about our safety
protocols. Please review this and let me
know if you have any questions about any
of our procedures.
There are many after school activities
happening this month as well. The Girls on
the Run program is up and
going strong. We also have
soccer happening at every
level. Thank you to our parent
volunteers Stephanie Inman,
Destiny Hughes, Erika
Fujimaki, and Greg Luetje for
coaching. If anyone is
interested in volunteering to coach a sport
or in the classroom, please let us know!
Thank you for a great first month of
school and we hope to see you at our
upcoming events!
Sincerely,
Jessica L. Wilkey Teaching Principal
KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Megan Howe
In Kindergarten we are off to a great
start! We are learning our routines and
expectations of the school and classroom.
WOODSTOCK NEWSLETTER
Date: September 27, 2019
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We have spent so much time getting to
know each other and our school. We have
been learning how to work hard and how to
work together in our community, both class
and school wide.
During Phonics we have jumped into
learning our letters. We are learning a
Letter a day. We are working hard
this year to learn uppercase,
lowercase, the letter’s name and sound
all at once. We have a class mascot,
Mabel who is the elephant who helps
us learn about Phonics. We have been
learning our letters by seeing what our
friends’ names start with and ALL ABOUT
ME - a unit sharing about themselves. We
have learned M, S, L, T, A, J and E. We are
beginning to put these letters together to
create words. We have had a blast
practicing all the hands on ways to learn our
letters - playdoh, shaving cream, Mat Man
and wooden pieces, plastic sticks, stamps
and ink, and so much more. We have also
begun learning some sight words, such as
we and in. We have been learning that our
sight words are all around us.
During our Literacy Block we work on a
lot of different skills. We
have begun the year
learning about different
folk tales such as Peter
Rabbit and Little Red
Riding Hood. These
stories help us learn some
social skills as well as
practice phonetic learning such as our letter
knowledge application, rhymes that go
along with the stories and comprehension
skills. We also have begun learning the
routines and expectations of Reader’s
Workshop and Daily Five. We have been
enjoying Reading to Someone, Reading to
Self, and Word Work. We have been
learning routines to use our IPADS.
We have begun learning how to read and
what strategies we can use. We have
learned that our index finger is our magic
pointer finger which helps us read one to
one correspondence. We have learned to
look at the pictures and to look at the
beginning letter of every word to figure out
what it says.
Our writing is also part of our ALL
ABOUT ME unit. We
have begun practicing
telling oral stories. We are
learning how to get our
mouths ready to tell stories
before our hands can help
us. We have written about
our families, our favorite
food, animal, and our home. We will
continue to add details to our drawings and
start to use letters to represent our words.
We have created a chart to help us
remember how to color and what is
expected of us when we color - colors make
sense, we color in the lines and we fill the
space with details. We are focusing on
telling real stories, which we call narratives.
Narratives always have a beginning, middle,
and end so that a reader can enjoy the story
we have written and it will make sense. We
are having a wonderful start creating both
stories together and stories independently.
Fall is here! The leaves are changing
color and we are getting so many
opportunities to learn about life cycles
happening all around us! This month we
began learning about
Apples. We have a lot of
questions about how they
grow. We are looking
forward to our apple
picking field trip next
month. We also will be
learning about Pumpkins.
In Math, we have been working hard
learning to count. We have been having so
much fun with numbers. We will be able to
count to 100 by the end of the year. We
have learned how to form the numbers 1-5.
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We will continue on 6-10. We have also
learned two new games; Count and Sit &
Gotcha. Ask a Kindergartener how to play.
We have learned some great rhymes about
writing our numbers! It has been so much
fun!
During our Social/Emotional Learning
Time, we have begun learning about the
Zones of Regulation by reading
some books about feelings. We
have also practiced making sure
our face matches our inside
feelings because that is one way
for someone to know how we
are feeling. We also practiced a
yoga program called Peace Out
that helps us refocus and calm our mind.
We will begin our social skills program next
week called PEACEFIRST. As part of our
Scholastic program we worked on Can I
Play? and Friends Share. We are learning
about classroom expectations and rules.
Can’t wait to share with you what
exciting things are going on in Kindergarten
during October!
GRADE ONE - Mrs. Wentworth
First graders have had a great start to the
year. We’ve been working on routines,
expectations, and developing classroom
rules in order to help us learn, work, and
play safely together. I am very pleased with
what we have accomplished in a relatively
short period of time. This is a great group
of kiddos and I’m looking forward to a
super year.
We had another great turnout for Open
House. For those of you that guessed the
number of apples in our
applesauce, there were
19. There were a
number of guesses that
were only off by one or
two, on either side of 19.
So well done, everyone!
Many parents and family members voted on
our favorite dessert graph and the winner
was Apple Crisp. I hope you had fun
learning about our room with the scavenger
hunt. It was nice to meet all of you and
reconnect with familiar families and friends.
In Math, we have been working on
calendar skills and skip counting by 5’s and
10’s with a game called Popcorn. First
graders have also been writing numbers to
100 and identifying different kinds of
patterns. We learned a new game a couple
weeks ago called “What’s My Number”
where students had to use their knowledge
of greater and less in order to guess the
number. They caught
on quickly and had
fun playing the game.
In the coming weeks,
we will work on
number recognition
beyond 20, subitizing,
number comparison in terms of greater than,
less than, and equality, addition, and place
value.
During our literacy block, we have spent
time sharing what kind of books we like to
read, browsing through our classroom
library, singing/reading poems, and talking
about different purposes for reading.
Students have been introduced to the
procedures and routines of our Reading
Workshop. Mini lessons included “What
we need to become good
readers,” “Practice choosing a
productive space to read,”
“Different ways to read,”
“Building Stamina,” and
“Choosing Just Right Books.”
This class has already built their
stamina time up to 8 minutes -
very impressive! During their
independent reading time, I have also had a
chance to conference with many of the
students. We talked about what they are
doing well and what they might try to do
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even better. As the month comes to a close,
I am in the process of administering DRA’s
to determine levels and skills for each
child. Once this has been completed, I will
be sending books home every night with
your child. The goal is to have
them spend 10-15 minutes each
night reading to an adult.
Studies show this is the most
important thing we can do to
help our children learn how to
read.
We kicked off our writing program with
the morning message. At this point, the
main focus has been on the mechanics of
writing - capitalization, punctuation,
spacing, and writing complete sentences.
We have also spent some time
brainstorming future topics for narrative
writing. As we begin to work on narrative
writing, the children will practice telling
stories orally and learn more about the
elements of this genre.
In Social Studies, we began with a unit
on Citizenship. We have focused on the
characteristics of a good citizen and read
our Scholastic
News and
some poems
on the same
topic. In the
coming
weeks, we will
read and learn more about respect, courage,
responsibility, compassion, and honesty.
From that we will develop a web of good
citizen traits. The children will draw
pictures and write about different ways they
can be good citizens. We are using the
traits to create our Classroom Constitution.
In Science, some students brought in
stuff from nature the first few weeks of
school. We have had fun looking at
leaves, apples, berries, butterflies, and a
snake ski. We are looking forward to going
outside to explore the nature
trail and perhaps see some wildlife. Finally,
we have done some apple activities such as
predicting how many seeds are in an apple
and observing what happens to apples in
lemon juice compared to plain apples left in
the air.
As you can see, we are off and running.
Be sure to check out the calendar for
upcoming events - as always, October is a
busy month. I hope you get to enjoy some
of the activities with us. Have a great
weekend everyone.
GRADE TWO – Mrs. Keough
The second graders have been busy
solidifying routines and
expectations! In September we
were fortunate to visit the
Oxford County Fair to focus on
animal habitats in Maine
including farms, fields and
forests, rivers and ponds, and soil. The
warm temperatures (near 80s) didn’t stop
the children from clambering around the
Fair to see and learn about the various farm
animals (Alpaca and Emu’s were the
favorites), the Blacksmith Shop, and the
Museum. The Museum exhibited how life
was like many years ago and the kids were
intrigued by pumping water to wash dishes
and how to keep vegetables, meats, and
dairy cold in the “ice box.” One of the
exhibits gave us information about bees and
how important they are to human survival
as they pollinate many of the
fruits and vegetables we eat
in addition to their creating
delicious honey. A favorite
exhibit was the mineral
building where the kids searched for
minerals in a sluice. It was a great day and
for those of us who traveled back to school
on the bus, we were thankful to our bus
driver, Michelle, for the delicious ice cream
treat on our way home!
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In addition to getting our beginning of
the year assessments near completion, we
are delving into our second grade
curriculum including reading and decoding
strategies to help us understand what we
read, Spelling patterns (ai, ay, and ea) to
help us read and write, Math strategies
(counting on, doubles and near
doubles, make a 10) and
addition/subtraction Math fact
practice to help us become more
flexible in understanding number
sense, and writing sentences on a
topic that include interesting details.
GRADE THREE – Mrs. Zybas
3rd graders are doing an excellent job
learning about and using their growth
mindset skills. They are learning the
importance of always trying to do your best,
even when you are already good. We call
this bubble gum brain because we can
expand, bend, and stretch our brains. We
are learning how to use our bubble gum
brains to improve our reading, writing, and
math skills. It is great to hear students use
the powerful word, yet. As in, “I am not
good at ______, yet.” If a student doesn’t
add the word yet, his
or her classmates will
add it for him or her.
September seems
to have been a month
for testing. With
testing behind us, students are ready to start
their reading groups. All groups will have
vocabulary words to learn, as well as
learning and using reading strategies. I will
not assign specific homework for
vocabulary as students will come home with
the words they need to learn on Monday
and it is up to them to practice these words.
Students will have specific reading
homework, in the form of reading packets
that they will need to work on throughout
the week. Don’t worry, we have done
several of these and they will know exactly
what to do.
I have come to expect a high turnout at
our open house and once
again, I was not
disappointed. Parents
truly are partners in
learning at this school,
and it is an incredible thing in which to
participate. I do enjoy listening to parents
reminisce about their school experiences at
Woodstock; I heard so many parents
express how happy they were that their
children are able to come to our school. I
am looking forward to meeting with parents
during our parent teacher conferences.
Please be looking for a sign-up sheet to be
headed home in October.
Finally, I must confess that I am not a
craft-capable person “yet”. I want to be, but
it is not natural to me. With this
confession, I am requesting the
aid of any and all creative and
craft-capable parents to please
help my class with a craft or two
for the craft fair. I will purchase
all of the supplies if you come up with an
idea or two. This class loves crafts so
helping them will be a cinch; helping their
teacher might be a different story!
GRADE FOUR – Miss Stambolis
Welcome back, WES families, to
another school year!
I would like to start with a big “shout
out” to the 4th graders for hosting an
enthusiastic Friday Meeting! Everyone did
a wonderful job helping make the props and
working together.
As we continue to settle into our routines
and expectations for our class, we will start
exploring the 4th grade curriculum with
smaller group instruction and more hands
on learning opportunities. Reading groups
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have started and will continue to focus on
oral fluency, vocabulary, and
comprehension of fiction and informational
texts. The books selected are Holes by
Louis Sachar, Lost on a Mountain in Maine
by Donn Fendler, Stone Fox by
John Gardiner, and Sarah Plain
and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
Our focus in math at the
moment is place value. We have
been reviewing the basics over the
last two weeks so that we can
improve our number sense and
apply this concept to addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and
rounding whole numbers.
In language arts and writing, students
have been concentrating in the first two
traits of writing, brain storming ideas and
organization. Students will begin creating
their first narratives in the upcoming weeks
and we will be using Mrs. Frisby and the
Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien to learn
how to engage readers with rich details.
Lastly, students have started to learn
about the events that
occurred in Colonial
America that lead up
to the Revolutionary
War in Social Studies.
We will cover the
Constitution, Preamble, and the Bill of
Rights over the next few weeks. Around
the same time, students will finish their
study on plant and animal structures in
science. The Rock cycle will be our next
unit!
GRADE FIVE - Mrs. Prentice
Welcome back! We are off to a great
start in fifth grade. Fifth graders have
finished their NWEA testing and have
jumped right into learning.
Students have been learning about
Earth’s Water and how the biosphere,
geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere
interact. Fifth graders completed several
investigations about how much water is
available for human use
and where this water is
located in the world.
During our trip to the
Bryant Pond 4-H
Learning Center, students participated in
several hands-on activities about
macroinvertebrates, the water quality, and
the interaction of Earth’s spheres.
In reading and writing, students have
been focusing on text features that authors
use to improve our comprehension of non-
fiction. Reading groups are currently
reading Where is the Great Barrier Reef and
Where are the Galapagos Islands? Students
will practice making quotes accurately from
a text when explaining what the text says
explicitly and drawing inferences from the
text. They will also determine two or more
main ideas of a text and explain how they
are supported by key details; summarize the
text.
In math, we have focused on place value
through the hundred billion and have begun
to include decimals
through the
thousandths. Students
worked on writing
numbers in standard,
expanded, and word form. They reviewed
comparing, ordering, and rounding whole
numbers and then decimals. The fifth grade
standard for math facts requires that
students recall 100 basic facts (addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division)
within five minutes.
In social studies, students focused on
learning the continents and
oceans of the world. They made
paper mache globes and added
the continents and labeled the
oceans. Fifth graders learned how
to use lines of longitude and
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latitude to locate an exact position on a
map. They also completed an online
treasure hunt using the latitude and
longitude coordinates.
Please be sure to read the fifth-grade
weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date on the
upcoming events for our Boston Trip
fundraising.
WOODSTOCK PTA – Mrs. Jeselskis
The PTA is already busy planning fall
events! October 19th is the
annual Craft Fair and we
are busy gathering
donations and hunting
down some amazing
vendors! If you or someone you know
would like to donate something to our raffle
or would like to have a table at the Craft
Fair as a vendor, please make sure to stop
by the office! As always, we will be having
a bake sale if you are baking-inclined and
would like to donate some goodies.
Additionally, we could always use
volunteers to help at the bake sale table, or
even in the kitchen prepping and serving
food! There are lots of options to get
involved in this wonderful event. If nothing
else, please make sure you stop by on the
19th between 9 and 3 to check out all the
local vendors and purchase your kiddos’
craft!
For the fall fundraiser this year we are
happy to offer Woodstock Wolves
gear designed by our very own
Destiny Hughes! Make sure to
“Like” her page on Facebook:
Destinedtobecrunchy (all one
word), to see some of her amazing
work. More details on the
fundraiser will be coming in the
next few weeks, so be on the lookout for
that!
We had a great time collecting Box Tops
for Education last year and will be
continuing that as a year-round fundraiser,
so make sure you are still collecting! In the
very near future the WPTA will have an
online account so you will be able
to scan your receipts and virtually
collect the Box Tops for our
school. It is a great, easy
fundraiser and we hope to
continue the momentum this year!
Another year-round fundraiser
that you can participate in, is bottles! We
are always on the lookout for volunteers to
pick up bottles from the transfer station on
Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and take
them to the Crazy Sister’s Redemption in
Bryant Pond. This is one of our largest
ongoing fundraisers and we need plenty of
volunteers to make it work! A huge
THANK YOU to all of the volunteers that
regularly participate in this—We literally
could not do it without you! If you are
interested in helping, please be sure to stop
by the office or let any PTA officer know
and we will be happy to share
exact dates needed!
We have a lot of exciting
events coming up
(Grandparents and Special
Friends’ Day is in October, too!)
and we are extremely excited
for another amazing year! As a reminder,
our PTA meetings are held on the first
Thursday of the month (with the exception
of October, which is the second Thursday)
at 6pm. Childcare is provided! Hope to see
you there!
MAHOOSUC KIDS – Mrs. Andrea
Howe
Happy Fall from MKA! It has been fun
getting to know the new students and
catching up with the students that attended
last year, we have done some fun activities
during the month of September including
making bouncy balls, pumpkin playdough,
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baked applesauce, painting with a variety of
tools (plastic wrap, Q-tips and cotton balls)
and so much more.
During the week of October
21st, there are a few activities
that I would like you to be aware
of. On October 23rd, we will
have a guest here to teach kids
how to sew a felt pumpkin and
on October 25th we will have our annual
“Lights On Afterschool” celebration. Both
activities will require parental permission
and forms will go out to families soon.
Also starting soon will be Homework
Club. Homework Club is an opportunity
for kids to have a quiet time and place to
work on homework, projects, ask questions
of a teacher if they aren’t understanding or
read a book.
If you have any questions about MKA,
feel free to call 665-2228 extension 113.
ART - Mrs. Oliver-Broderick
Students are off to a great start in art!
We having been working hard on showing
our understanding of
the color theory.
Kindergarten has
just started a piece
inspired by the artist
Wassily Kandinsky.
This piece is exploring both color and
shape.
1st grade has just started a collage
project inspired by Paul Klee. Students
created their own painted paper full of color
and texture. We have been cutting the
paper up and arranging it to create an
abstract cityscape. I am excited to see them
finished.
2nd graders have been working hard on
beautiful warm and cool color paintings.
We will be starting a symmetry painting
very soon. We also started the year with a
wonderful collaborative project that shows
our love for WES.
3rd graders are just starting a self-
portrait which will include lots of color, line
and pattern.
4th graders are beginning a painting
about movement. I am excited to see how
these turn out.
5th graders are gearing up for their field
trip by critiquing
famous artworks. We
are all looking forward
to visiting the Portland
Museum of Art in a
few weeks.
I am excited to see
and be a part of all the exciting things
happening in the art room. It's going to be a
wonderful year of creativity and
exploration.
BAND - Mr. Alberi
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MUSIC – Ms. Birkhold
We're off to a great start in music this
year! Kindergarteners are just beginning to
explore some of the fundamentals of rhythm
and singing through a variety of musical
games, stories, and songs. 1st graders are
also staying busy by moving their bodies
rhythmically and expressively to many
different kinds of music. Students are
learning a mix of old classics like "One,
Two, Buckle my Shoe" as well as more
modern songs.
2nd graders are really
expanding on the rhythmic
work we did last year, and
strengthening their music
reading skills. We've also
started a fun folk dance that
the kids have been loving!
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3rd graders had a blast on their first day
of recorder. They are definitely excited
about learning this new instrument, and
earning belts in "Recorder Karate."
4th and 5th graders have been working
very hard on the recorder in the first few
weeks of school. They've
been motivated to continue to
earn belts in "Recorder
Karate" as they advance
toward earning their black
belt. We've been taking
advantage of the beautiful
weather, and having our
recorder classes outside.
I'm looking forward to a great year, and
excited to see what the students will
accomplish!
PHYSICAL ED. – Ms. Jordan
Welcome Back WES Families! I hope
you all had a fabulous summer and are
looking forward to the fall season. We are
already off to a great start in PE this year
with bundles of energy and lots of
enthusiasm. Kindergarteners and First
Graders have been playing games that
require listening with spatial and body
awareness while working on basic
locomotor movement skills. They have
been engaging in activities such as Duck
Duck Goose, Follow the Leader, Red Light
Green Light, The Reaction Game, In the
Jungle, and Soccer.
Second and Third
Graders have been
playing games that
require movement
skills, teamwork, and
communication.
Team Memory, Ants
on a Log, Pass it On, Capture the Flag, and
Soccer are just a few examples from the
past few weeks. Fourth and Fifth Graders
have been playing games that require
communication, focus and teamwork as
well as physical agility. Ultimate Capture
the Flag, Ants on a Log, Pass it
On, Soccer, and the Water
Princess challenge are a few
more examples since the start of
the year. I will continue to
incorporate both traditional sport
activities and non-traditional
sport activities that will
challenge students and help them develop
new skills throughout the year.
In addition to our “High Five” guidelines
we will be focusing on the categories of
Caring, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility,
Trustworthiness, and Citizenship
throughout the
year. Each
class can earn
up to 20 points
every week by
wearing
sneakers to PE
(10 points) and
by following
the “High 5” guidelines (10 points). At the
end of each trimester the class with the most
points will earn a reward. The scores are
kept on a bulletin board in the hallway by
the gym, so be sure to check it out when
you are in the building! Just a quick
reminder that I take classes outside as much
as possible this time of year. As you know,
that can be tricky with the weather. I have
recommended that students remember to
bring a water bottle, to dress in layers, and
to throw an extra pair of socks and/or shoes
in their bag for after PE (just in case the
grass is wet from the overnight dew). I’ll
thank you in advance for your help with
this! If you have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to contact me. I am
really looking forward to spending time
with each and every student at WES, it’s
going to be a great year!