Fuller Meadow grade 2 Scientists!

The Second Graders are meeting their new experiments this week.  The Painted Lady caterpillars arrived today, and the second graders are so excited to be sharing their classrooms with these guys!

Ask your second grade scientist what they have learned about the life cycle of a butterfly!

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Sorry, I Forgot to Ask!

We read this great book today this week at Team Time.  In this book, RJ is making a lot of trips to the time-out chair! Without telling anyone, he and his best friend Sam decide to walk home from school instead of riding the bus. Later the two of them are caught trying to use Dad s computer to get on the Internet without permission. After their piano lesson, RJ and his sister Blanche snack on Mom’s triple-layer double-chocolate cake with whipped cream frosting and spoil Grandma’s birthday party surprise. Dad helps RJ learn how to do a better job of asking for permission, and when RJ and Sam return to school their principal has them practice making an apology. RJ feels a lot happier when he says he’s sorry to his teacher, the bus driver, and Grandma, and he learns that asking for permission will mean fewer trips to the time-out chair!  We also took this opportunity to practice the correct way to apologize when you have made a mistake or hurt someone.

Fuller Meadow Garden 2013

Parents and students planted the Fuller Meadow Garden on Saturday.  We didn’t have a very big turnout of volunteers, but the ones who came worked very hard!  We had to weed the beds first, and then mix in compost.  We planted tomatoes, beans, peas, pumpkins, cucumbers, lettuce and marigolds.  It was a fun day with hard workers!  Thank you to Mrs. Fishman for organizing the garden.  It is such an amazing resource for our community!  Thank you also to the Friends of the Library, who purchased the compost, plants and flowers as part of the Community Reads program.

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Wilma Jean and the Worry Machine

We read a great story this week about children’s worries.  Wilma Jean worries about everything. Her teacher helps her figure out what worries she can control and those that she can’t and what to do about both types of worries. This book gives children helpful advice and tools to deal with their anxiety and fears.

Grade 1 Festival of the Arts 2013

Irish Mixer: 

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Thank you, Soldiers: 

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Good-bye, Winter: 

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Dancing in the Breeze: 

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Ulili E (The Sandpiper):

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The Joke: 

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Have You Ever Seen a Yankee Doodle?: 

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Spring, Spring, Spring: 

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Our wonderful program distributors,  Lucas and Lucia!

And some of our amazing specialist teachers, Mrs. Winchell, Ms. Farmer and Mrs. Haines.  Thanks for your hard work!

Thank you from the Middleton Food Pantry

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Mr. Frank Leary came to present the Fuller Meadow Students a plaque in honor of their generosity this school year with donations to the Middleton Food Pantry.  He spoke to the children about how it is important to help others in the community, and how proud and grateful he is of the Fuller Meadow students.  Thank you, also, to the parents who have helped with these donations.  If you are looking to make donations, the Food Pantry is located at the Middleton Senior Center, and the hours are on Friday afternoons from 1:30-3:30.  You can drop off during that time, or you can call Mr. Leary to make arrangements.  Mr. Leary said that things that the pantry can always use include: peanut butter, jam, pasta, sauce, soup, tuna or other canned goods.

The inscription on the plaque says: Middleton Food Pantry
2013 Good Neighbor Award
FULLER MEADOW SCHOOL
We wish to express our deep gratitude to the students, faculty and staff for their donations to the Middleton Food Pantry.  We applaud your efforts to teach our students the satisfaction one earns for acts of kindness for our needs neighbors.
Francis Leary
David Leary

Sea Life with Mr. Money

Mr. Money, from Natural Discoveries came to visit grade 1 on Monday and Tuesday of this week.  He brought a preview of things that the students might see on the field trip to the tide pools in a couple of weeks.  The children loved the interactiveness of Mr. Money’s presentation, and got to touch real live sea creatures such as sea stars and a horseshoe crab.

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This is another example of the excellent programming funded by the Middleton PTO.  Thank you PTO!

Grade 2 Museum of Science/Life Cycles

The Museum of Science came today for Grade two to talk about Life Cycles.  It was a great show with interesting animals to look at!

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Fuller Meadow Survey 2013

Please click on the link to access the Fuller Meadow School Survey.  This is an anonymous survey and I encourage you to fill it out at your leisure.  The survey will be open until May 28th.  As always, I thank you for your input.

Fuller Meadow School Survey

Not So Tall for Six

This week’s team time book was Not So Tall for Six by Dianna Hutts Aston. In this adorable story, Kylie Bell may be the smallest one in her first-grade class, but when it comes to standing up to that mean ol’ bully-boy Rusty Jacks, her courage is monumental. Life isn’t easy when you can’t reach the water fountain, but Kylie Bell’s big heart and good manners prove that sometimes it takes the most courage to do what’s right. (excerpt from Good Reads)