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EMES School Newsletter
September 8th, 2023
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EMES School Newsletter February 19, 2024
What's Happening at EMES
I am excited to announce that EMES will be hosting an Artist in Residency in March. Taiko Drummers from the greater Burlington area, will spend 10 days at EMES, teaching students the art of Taiko Drumming. We will have a school-wide evening performance at the culmination of the residency, which will take place in the U-32 gymnasium. I'll share more details about this special event when we return from the break.
EMES has had a fair amount of illness since returning from the holiday break in January. As a reminder, if your child is not feeling well in the morning, and especially if they have had a fever of 100 degrees or higher within the past 24 hours, please do not send them to school. We work hard to keep everyone healthy while they're at school and we want to prevent the spread of illness! Thank you for your help.
Enjoy the rest of this Monday!
Alicia
Upcoming Dates to Note
Feb 21 - WCUUSD board meeting at U-32 6:15 pm
Feb 23 - U-32 music concert in the EMES gym 1:30 pm
Feb 26 - March 5: Winter break - No School
March 5 - Town Meeting Day at EMES
March 10 - Daylight Savings - turn clocks ahead!
March 22 - Student led conferences at EMES - no school for students
March 25 - April 5 - Taiko Drumming Residency at EMES for all EMES students!
EMES Students had to find 100 Scouts on 100th Day
It took us all day...
with a little teamwork, we did it!
Library News from Ms. Arlyn
Our library is a magical place. It is a place where students explore ideas, seek out books that excite them, and learn new skills and ways to express their ideas. While much of those activities happen through our library classes and technology projects that are integrated into the core curriculum, some opportunities happen outside the more structured parts of our school day. For example, we recently had a wonderful after school book club with 4th grade on the book Odder by Katherine Applegate. But it is at lunch and recess when kids often ask to come in for extra time to create and learn (usually with peers). I almost laughed when on a recent Friday I looked around and saw that I had 3rd and 4th graders from our Tuesday Makerspace who asked if they could come in and work on their string art projects (happily hammering away on the floor), while at a table there was a group of 5th & 6th graders who were knitting and needle felting, and while all that was going one there were also a few more 5th graders spread around the library working on 2 different podcasts. Magic!
Stay tuned for those podcasts. We have several that are nearing completion, thanks to the efforts of the aforementioned students plus a few 6th graders who devote many a Monday to capturing and telling the stories of EMES.
Upcoming book clubs:
For 5th & 6th Grade:
Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn will be held after school on Feb 20th
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat (March, date to be announced)
Fo 4th Grade:
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee (March, date to be announced)
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga (May, date to be announced)
For 4th - 6th Grades:
VT Golden Dome Book Award Voting Party (April, date to be announced)