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BOOK SWAP 2008! Every Tuesday
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Walking through Consolidated
you will find many colorful displays of student work. Please see
our digital picture slideshow HERE!
Allow time to load all (100+) pics!
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"Doo Wop Wed WidingHood" The Port Players Friday, March 28th
@ 7:00pm
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| Kindergarten
will visit Graves
Library. We are finishing the program, Sammy Science House and will begin Dole-5-A-Day for a nutrition study in computer lab. Local "celebrity readers" for the Read Across America Celebration. We also prepare for a special visit from story book artist/illustrator, Scott Nash. Friday March 28th.
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| First Grade will be
presenting mammal reports this month as well as studying maple syrup
production and take a trip to
Harris Farm.
They will study symmetry. 3D shapes, polygons, counting back by 2's from
100 and fairy tales! March is nutrition month - we created the new food pyramid in computer lab, see our work here! In the computer lab we create a paper on our Mammal = Click' Here! Here you will find our Stone Soup project created in computer. Dr. Seuss celebration along with the Read Across America, 1st grade project!
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Second Grade will
begin their large Dinosaur project this month, which leads to a visit in
April to the Boston Museum of Science! Chewonki will come in with their showcase "Scales and Tales" for reptile study. The Dr. Seuss birthday celebration is March 3rd, here is a link to some of our computer work... Rhyming Like Dr. Seuss! |
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Maine Educational Assessment = MEAs Consolidated's third, fourth & fifth graders will be tested in March, with the MEAs. Third grade will begin testing on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008. The following week, March 11th, both fourth and fifth grade will begin their testing. Make-up testing will be given the week of March 17th. All students, grades 3-4-5 must participate in the MEA testing. Testing is typically done in the morning only, so it is critical that students are here on time. If a student is late and testing has begun they will need to participate in the scheduled makeup test. |
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First/Second Grade will begin their large Dinosaur project this month,
which leads to a visit in April to the Boston Museum of Science!
Chewonki will come in with their showcase "Scales and Tales" for reptile study. We study author/illustrator Dr. Seuss, whose birthday celebration is March 3rd. We prepare for a special visit from storybook artist/illustrator, Scott Nash. Friday March 28th. Mr. Nash illustrated the book Flat Stanley!
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Third Grade This is "Women in History Month" and we will, amongst other projects, complete a web-hunt in computer lab. We are finishing our Animal Report and then it is on to.... THE SOLAR SYSTEM in science! In computer lab we will begin to look up information on the world's biomes. This information and corresponding pictures will be used in the creation of our Biome Brochure, using an Microsoft Publisher Template. |
| Fourth Grade will attend the a play, Freedom Train at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland this month. Transportation provided by the K.C.P.T.A. Thank you KCPTA! We finalize our videos that we filmed in
class last month and Miss Miller with Mrs. Blokland will splice them
together into one movie!
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Fourth/Fifth Multi
are busy gathering data for their 2008 school speech. This year's
topic: A Famous U.S. Landmark of your choice.
We begin a PowerPoint Presentation in the computer lab about Maine's Native American Tribes.
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| Fifth Graders
are busy gathering data for their 2008 school speech. This year's
topic: A Famous U.S. Landmark of your choice.
We begin a new book: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, in literature. In science we will study the topic ENERGY and in Social Studies we begin to study the U.S. Revolutionary War.
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Early release is
Wednesday, |
Daylight Savings
time change!
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| These local photographs are by our own Consolidated teacher, Mrs. Cmaylo. Mrs. Cmaylo loves teaching and photography! Please see some projects created with the students in her class here. | |
