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Sandwich Central School

 

Dear Parents and Friends:

You are reading the last newsletter of this school year.  We're always surprised to find the end of the school year so near.  I suppose one reason times flies is because we are doing so much.
  This year, we decided not to do a regular school newspaper and instead opted to go with a Facebook Group page.  Students created SCS-Daily to report  on school events since late September.  It is amazing to scroll through the year on this Facebook page to see the wide variety of activities the different classes did this year.  (You can view SCS-Daily on Facebook without a Facebook account simply by typing in your web browser: facebook.com/scs-daily.)
And we're not finished!  Upcoming events include a play, field trips, a visit of student pen pals from Madison, a talent show, step up day, and field day -- all in the next 2 weeks.  
    One thing on the horizon for next year is 1:1 computing in Upper Multiage and Grade 6.  A proposal will be shared at Tuesday evening's School Board meeting to provide a Chromebook computer to each District student in grades 4 - 8 beginning in September, and expanding to include students at the high school in 2014-15. One to one computing means every student has his/her own computer for the purposes of daily learning.  

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Mrs. Petitti’s Primary Multiage Class

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Our year is quickly coming to a close.  The children enjoyed working in our garden and planting a lot of potatoes. We have been very busy preparing for our Stone Soup play.  The children did a walk around town finding the buildings that will be in our play and sketching them taking note of the details. The children have been busy practicing their lines and making props for the play. 

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Mr. Chapman’s Upper Multiage

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Language Arts: The Upper Multiage has completed their reports on early American trades. They did a very impressive job of using the writing process to produce these detailed reports. They grew comfortable using Google Docs to word process, and they used the Docs comments feature to provide feedback to their peers in order to help one another with making revisions to their work. One key component of the report was the inclusion of information about a person in Sandwich who practiced their chosen trade here in the past. They had to dig through Sandwich Historical Society resources to find when and where the tradesperson lived and worked, as well as any other anecdotes about the individual, his or her family, or the importance of the trade here in town at that time. Next Tuesday, this experience will culminate with a Sandwich Excursion - a trip around town to visit the home sites, m

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Ms. Littlefield and Ms. Wyman

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As a culminating way to round out our year, we asked our students what their favorite part of the school year was. Enjoy reading the responses!

Kalan – “My favorite part was studying the rain forest animals and building Greenie traps”

Maxwell – “When we had our whole school spring concert.”

Curtis – “Our play because all of us sang and it was fun.”

Ashley – “Spirit week because it was fun on PJ day.”

Cole – “When I got back from Hawaii and I got to see all my friends on the first day of school for me.”

Alex – “My favorite part was our play”

Ruby – “When the whole school had the Halloween parade.”

Dugan – “My favorite part was our rain forest play”

Gage – “When we did the play, Rumpus in the Rain Forest.”

Kobi – “Doing our play was my favorite because the process is just so fun. My favorite part of the process was when we made the banner.”
Hadley: My favorite part of this school year was seeing my friends.

Kelli: My favorite part of this school year was going to the fairgrounds and writing in our Nature Journals because I like to feel the breeze and hear the different things.

Bobby: My favorite part of this school year was math because I like to learn and I have learned a lot this year. It has been a good school year.

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Mr. Hillger's 6th Grade

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Wow! Merrowvista was great! Despite the ridiculous weather changes, the sixth graders worked hard and made some nice connections with their Inter-Lakes peers. There was plenty of song, adventure and good food for all.
In addition, the sixth graders spent an entire day at Inter-Lakes Middle Tier on Thursday. During this field experience, they ran a seventh grade schedule, met their specialty teachers, and had lunch in the high school cafeteria. This is a big day for the sixth graders and they all handled it with grace and ease. We will return to the Middle Tier on June 19th for a transition morning, at which the sixth graders will meet their seventh grade teachers.
Chromebooks: Back in February, our Superintendent Mary Ellen Ormond visited SCS, and wanted to see the sixth graders using their new Chromebooks. After a short demonstration, she told the sixth graders that she was thinking about purchasing more Chromebooks for more students, and that she wanted a report from the SCS sixth graders by the end of the year.

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