Artist In Residence: Jeh Kulu

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:  JEH KULU

Coming to RES  April 17th -20th

Dancing and Drumming with the West African Musical Troop during physical education classes.

Students should bring sneakers and comfortable clothes.

This artist in residence was supported by many people, including:

Vermont Art Council

Community Go Fund Me Contributors

RES Enrichment Program

RES Art Program

RES PTO

THANK YOU!

Questions?  Contact Darcie Rankin, Enrichment Teacher at darcie.rankin@cesuvt.org

Crayon Puzzles

Recently in math, first graders have been working hard on a set of problems called "Crayon Puzzles". These are story problems that involve having a given number of crayons, and figuring out how many of each color you could have. The tricky part is that different problems have different stipulations that the mathematician must be careful to follow and figure out. 

Can You Make A Ball Go 2 Different Distances?

First graders did their final activity for our Force and Motion unit last week.  They were challenged with the question "how can you make a ball go two different distances?" and had to come up with a plan for how to do just that.  Students used all of the knowledge that they gained throughout our study of force and motion, including concepts such as pushes and pulls, gravity, slopes of a ramp, and friction. After writing up their plan, they made their predictions, and then actually carried it out to see if their plan would in fact work. Wow!  What amazing scientists!!

If I Were The Lorax...

After reading The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, students came up with their own ideas of how they could help the earth.  Here are a few of their projects, but please come visit our full display of them out in the hallway by our room!

Word of the Week: Persevere

Our most recent W.O.W. (Word of the week) was persevere. We talked about this word a lot while reading Dr. Seuss' book, The Lorax. While there are many other important themes in this story to discuss, this book provided a wonderful example of what it means to persevere through something and give it your all.  

Beach Day!!

We had a lot of fun today at the beach!!

We ate our snacks at the beach...

And we did some reading at the beach!

More From Our Authors' Celebration

Mr. Berry visited our celebration and sent us this very nice video capturing the event.  Thank you, Mr. Berry!!  Enjoy!

Ms. Purvee's First Grade Author Celebration