Fisher Family Update

Good Afternoon Fisher Families,

The 2025 Battle of the Books program reached its thrilling crescendo this past Wednesday, highlighting our students' knoweldge of the Battle books and their passion for reading! The competion was very exciting and extremely close! Most importantly, the students demonstrated great teamwork and excellent sportsmanship throughout!

At the end of 8 weeks, a total of 2,888 books were read by 242 students, demonstrating the enthusiasm for reading across all grades.

Here's a breakdown of the student efforts:

• 240 students read 3 or more books
• 218 students read 5 or more books
• 131 students read 10 or more books
• 76 students read 15 or more books
• 53 students read 20 or more books
• 28 students read 25 or more books

• For the 96 4th graders that were also here last year, 80 (83%) of them read more (or the same) number of books than last year.

• For the 76 5th graders that were also here last year, 53 (70%) of them read more (or the same) number of books than last year.

The competition was tough, with several rounds requiring bonus questions to decide winners, including one round where 10 extra questions were needed to move from round 2 to the final. In the end, the Lime Green team came out on top, claiming the title of Battle of the Books champion!

A big thank you to Robin Hughes and Sara Barend for giving so much of their time to make the day special for the students. Their dedication and support have helped inspire a love of learning in all of us. We also want to thank Kristi McPhee and Laura Manchester for their countless hours of work on behalf of Fisher School. Their contributions were key in making the event a success.

But it’s not over yet! For those who read 20 or more books, the next challenge is the Scholar Test. 53 students will compete this year—an increase from last year.

Congrats to all participants for their hard work and commitment. Keep reading!

Have a great weekend,

Brian

February

17-21 February Vacation

24 - Classes resume

March

11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 5-7pm

13 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 5-7pm

14 - Glow Dance - Information below

14 - Early Release, Dismissal at 12:25/Parent/Teacher Conferences 1-3pm

19 - 4th Grade to Norfolk Agricultural School for Maple Syrup demonstration

19 - PAC Meeting 7pm

28 - Early Release, Dismissal at 12:25

Fisher School began the week with a celebration of Black History Month! Throughout the month, our morning announcements will highlight important events that occurred during February, showcasing the lasting impact of influential birthdays, court rulings, protests, and achievements on our society. Our fifth graders also researched famous Americans and created posters that have been put up around the school. Students and staff have enjoyed reading about these Heroes and their amazing accomplishments!!

2/10 Magnificent Monday

Together, let’s create a beautiful rainbow!

Grade 5: Red

Grade 4: Orange

Grade 3: Yellow

Grade 2: Green

Grade 1: Blue

K: Purple

2/11 Teamwork Tuesday

Wear your Fisher apparel or Walpole colors (blue & orange) to show we are a TEAM!!

Let’s greet our teammates with a nice “Hello” today and use expected behavior!

2/12 Wonderfully Welcoming Wednesday

Let’s share our uniqueness while accepting each other’s

Mix match your outfits, your socks, your tie dye…

2/13 Thoughtful Thursday

Write a note of thanks to someone at school today!

Think of all the people who help you throughout your day at Fisher School…and the person who gets you there! Let

2/14 PJ Day Friday

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Let's dream of kindness & enjoy this last day before vacation in our comfy PJs!

Please click here to read information about the upcoming Glow Dance being held at Fisher School. There will be two time slots available.

All Fisher students (K-5) will be participating in a special team building activity in March. We kindly request donations of unopened, regular size boxes of cereal. We need approximately 500 boxes since we are looking for enough to line our halls to make a "domino formation". After our team building activity, the cereal boxes will be dontated to the Walpole Food Pantry. Thank you!

**We are still looking for cereal**

Registration for our February Vacation Camp closes on February 12, 2025.
Families can create an account/register at this link: https://register.capturepoint.com/reg/login.cfm?cuBNAf%2FV0p4trnasCJNBkrfRqxVbA8M1ugTdgJwcwr%2BLxIFL2ZCtvf%2Fw

We are excited to announce that Extended Day will be running a Pilot Summer Program this upcoming summer and registration is now live. We are anticipating registration to fill quickly and will do our best to enroll as many waitlisted students as possible.

This year, the camp will run for 4 weeks at Fisher Elementary and offer an Extended Day PM option for families. Registration will be open for incoming first-sixth graders. Registration will be available for individual weeks and families will have the option to register for all 4 weeks at a discounted rate.

Please see the attached PDF regarding Summer Camp Information and Registration Information for the Summer of 2025 and reach out to Dan Santangelo (dsantangelo@walpole.k12.ma.us) or Evan Storlazzi (estorlazzi@walpole.k12.ma.us) with any questions.

If there is snow on the ground, please remember to send your students to school with snow pants, boots, hats and mittens (don't forget to label them) for recess. They will be unable to play in the snow without them.

Updated School Store Schedule

100th Day fun in Ms. Nichols class

100 days of learning, building, and growing! Miss Romano's little builders used 100 items to create, construct, and celebrate this special day!

We are fundraising for Fisher School's 5th grade end of year celebration, graduation, and events and I wanted to share a fun opportunity to support our efforts and possibly win some money!

I've created a Fundraiser Squares game for the Superbowl on Sunday, Feb 9, 2025.

Cost to play is $20 per square. After picking your square(s) please venmo me @Jeni-Labbe or email me at jeni.labbe@gmail.com if you'd like to arrange another payment method.

Prize payouts are:

Prize payouts are:

1st Quarter: $200

2nd Quarter: $200

3rd Quarter: $200

4th Quarter: $400

You can claim one or more squares by Saturday, Feb 8, 2025; game numbers will be revealed when all are done claiming squares.

To play, click the link below and enter the code 5thGrade to view the game board and choose your square(s).

https://superbowlpoolsite.com/contest/594623?p=5thGrade

Let's have fun with this and please share it with your friends/family so we can sell them all!

January was a very busy and exciting month for Fisher’s Finest! We kicked off our Change for a Cure and after only 3 weeks, more than $1,000.00 has been collected and brought in by students! After those 3 weeks, Ms. Kelley’s class is leading the chase, with Mrs. McDonald’s and Mrs. Kenney’s classes rounding out the top 3! So far, Mrs. Giampietro’s, Mrs. Kenney’s, Mrs. Kelley’s, Ms. Nichols’s, Mrs. McDonald’s, and Mrs. Winer’s classes have all earned Rally bracelets for collecting a total of $50. Congratulations to them all! There are still several weeks to go, and it’s anyone’s game to earn a private meet-and-greet for their class if they’re the top fundraising class and we earn the player visit as the top fundraising school!

Our Green Monster Wall of Honor has plenty of room for more baseballs! Order forms are available at school, I can send another one home for you, or you can just email me the information and send in your donation with your student. There is no specified amount - no donation is too small or too large! Let’s fill the wall with the names of those special people!

If you placed an order for coffee cakes from our My Grandma’s Coffee Cake fundraiser, those are expected to be baked and shipped next Monday, and we should have them by Wednesday. You will be notified when they’re all packed and ready to be picked up on Wednesday or Thursday. Thanks again to everyone who supported this! We sold over 150 coffee cakes, and raised approximately $1000 for Rally!

There are still some Fisher student Excuse notepads available. If you want to order one for only $5, all of which goes to our Rally, please click here: Student Excuse Notepad Order . As soon as I receive your payment, I’ll send the notepad(s) home with your students.

Our kindergarten and Grade 1 classes were the recipients of a special Jimmy Fund book titled Fenway and Hooper at Fenway Park. These were gifts from The Jimmy Fund staff in recognition of all the work done by Fisher’s Finest for them!

Thank you all for your amazing continued support of Fisher's Finest!

Carolyn McDonough - Rally Captain for Fisher’s Finest cmcdonough@walpole.k12.ma.us

Absences: If your student is going to be absent or tardy, please call the absence line and let us know in advance. You may call this line at anytime and leave a message. The telephone number is 508-660-7234 and then press 1

Dismissals: Please send a hand written note with your student in the morning or fill out this form with at least 2 hours advance notice.

Afterschool dismissal changes: If your student is changing their typical way of leaving Fisher at 3:25pm, please send a note into school with the plan that morning.

We understand that there are unavoidable last minute changes, however, please be mindful that we must call the classroom and upset time on leaning with each change.

Please feel free to email the front office: fisher-secretaries@walpole.k12.ma.us

School Day Begins at 8:55am

Dismissal is at 3:25pm

Early Release Days - Dismissal is at 12:25pm

Click HERE to view our arrival and dismissal procedures

HERE is the school calendar for 2024-2025, including start dates, holidays and early dismissal days. This is continually updated over the course of the year if we have snow days. Please note that there are different start dates for Kindergarten students