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This is Jenaya reporting the forth
grade field trip to Burnside
Plantation. At the plantation we
learned about Mary and James
Burnside.
! There were many cool things
there; horses, old houses, a barn,
and a summer kitchen, just to name
a few . There were three different
horses named Raven, Gorge, and
another one. They were all police
horses.
! We made part of a mini barn inthe actual barn. We learned about the tools they used back then.
We also learned how they made the barn because in the 1800ʼs it
burned down and they had to re- build it.
We got to eat bread with apple cinnamon sauce and learned
about how they cooked bread and made whipped cream. We also
got a chance to mix the whipped cream.
I hope next yearʼs forth grade can have a chance to go. Pictures on Page 3
L i t t l e L e o p
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May2012
BURNSIDE
PLANTATIONTRIP WITH FORTH GRADE!!!
Written By: Jenaya
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First inMath
An online mathprogram with
games to practice allareas of math skills. Itcan be played both atschool and home.
Top Monthly Class4th Grade -
Mrs. Scarponi (+4,604)3rd Grade -
Miss Ely (+10,988)2nd Grade -
Mrs. Laslo (+6,486)
School Total212,378
Dane W.+2,351
Students with most Firstin Math stickers earned:
David Heard
MemorialA memorial was
dedicated to the life
David Heard with the
planting an American
Red Bud tree in the front
of the school and the
start of a book memorial
titled “David Heard
Warrior Collection”.Children enjoyed
listening to teachers talk
about how David
affected the lives of
others and saw a slide
presentation about
him. A guest
appearance by Melissa
VanFleet whom sang
Firework and Fame
was also greatly
enjoyed. Each child
and adult that was in
attendance was then
able to sprinkle glitter
on the tree to
represent how Davidʼs
Miss Haller6,490
Teacher with most First inMath stickers earned:
Take Me Out to the BallGameFirst graders showed their FAME sportsmanship when they
teamed up with the EAHS ambassadors on May 23 rd at EAHS for aculminating activity for their partnership in literacy this year.
This outdoor activity gave the students the opportunity to visitthe high school campus, buddy with the ambassadors to playkickball, meet their special pen pals friends and enjoy a “baseball”picnic lunch. A special thrill was to have Troy Hein umpire the game!They came ready to play in their green and yellow “baseballuniforms” sporting the logo, Little Leopards Step Up To The Plate! !
Our Little Leopards showed their March Pride with plenty of friendlysmiles and laughter on the field.
Many special thanks to Ms. Capecci, Mrs. Steinberg, Mr.Koch, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Pokrivsak and his staff, Mr. Hein, MarchSchoolʼs PTA , teachers and staffs for all their hard work andplanning in making this event so special for the first grade students.! Check out the Easton Express Times for pictures as well
as page 3 of this newsletter.
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4th Grade Burnside
Planation
Take me out to the Ball
Game, 1st Grade
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Box Top Update
The Little Leopards at F.A.March continue to “MakeThemselves Proud” bycollecting Box Tops! Eachmonth, a new collectionsheet is sent home. Everystudent is encouraged to
fill up their collection sheetand return it to school.
For the month of April, theF.A. March Schoolcommunity collected1,160 Box Tops bringingour total to 12,340 BoxTops! All families andcommunity members areencouraged to keep
collecting over thesummer. Thanks forall of your hard work!
! Mrs. Costello’s Third Grade class was able to
bring science and math together in one lesson. Firs
they created 3-DimensionalGeometric shapes such as
cubes, rectangular andtriangular prisms from pipe
cleaners. The following day,
they used their 3-D figures as
bubble blowers. These were no
ordinary bubble blowers
though.! When the 3-D figures were
dipped in bubble solution, the
outline of the shape appearedwithin the center of the 3-D shape.
The students were able to recall from the
principles learned in their FOSS Water
Investigation that surface tension was at play
here! Surface tension pulls the water into a
dome-like, spherical shape. The water moves
into the smallest shape possible. With the 3-D
bubble blowers, the shape repeats the outside shape. The students
were very excited by the experience.
The Math and Science of BubblesPutting It All Together
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On April 30 we held our 2nd Annual Science Fair which was aBLAST! We had approximately 40 students complete science projects.
During the day, grade levels rotated through four sciencecenters which were the student science projects, a science activity, aiquid nitrogen demonstration, and March for March. At the scienceactivity, students learned about aerodynamics by making straw rockets(3rd and 4th) and paper helicopters (1st and 2nd). The liquid nitrogendemonstration was presented by David Kish, a LIN ambassador fromAir Products. Mr. Kish demonstrated the different properties tostudents through engaging experiments and questioning, havingstudents discover the answers themselves.
That night 66 families came back for our 1st ever Science FairNight. Families were able to make slime,observe and touch different animals (giantmillipedes, leeches, a snake, etc), learn aboutrobots, and add animals to our wall habitat.These centers were planned by Lafayettestudents. Everyone had a great night andwalked away knowing one new science factthey didnʼt know before.
We would like to thank thestudents of Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, American Instituteof Chemical Engineers, Mr. Drummondof Lafayetteʼs Biology Department, andMs. Villanueva for their helping inmaking this night possible. We wouldalso like to thank Mrs. Newquist and Mr.Newquist for their help. We would alsoike to thank Crayola would helpedmake this possible through theirCrayola Grant.
PTA ScholarshipWinner
This yearʼs 2012
recipient of the March
PTAʼs J. Eric Van Arman
Scholarship is Erik
Ritter. Erik Ritter will be
following his fatherʼs
footsteps and attending
Rochester Institute of
Technology. While there
he will be pursuing a
degree in Computer
Science and a minor in
music. He will be
receiving this
scholarship on
Wednesday May 30 at
the Academic
Excellence Ceremony.
We wish him the best of
luck in his future
endeavors.
2nd Annual Science Fair
Liquid Nitrogen Demonstration
by Mr. Kish, LIN Ambassador
from Air Products.
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Third graders in Room 215 are ready to celebrate everything they have accomplished in thirdgrade. The year has been filled with many memories and exciting moments. At the end of everyyear, Room 215 holds their Poetry Cafe at the Easton Public Library. This year, the event will beheld on Thursday, May 31 from 6:00pm-7:00pm.
When families arrive, they will be greeted with refreshments and a gallery of artwork created bythe students for the night. Miss Ely will start off the night by giving the Room Parents a thank yougift for all of their hard work and dedication to the students in Room 215. In addition, wewill honor all of the teachers, parents, and families that have helped us toachieve our Third Grade Hopes and Dreams.
Students may feel nervous, but they are excited to sharetheir cinquains, haikus, and quatrains they have written.Each poem is written about a third gradememory, item, or topic. Studentshave practiced these
poems manytimes and areready toshare out!
As in atraditionalpoetry cafe,the audiencesnaps ratherthan claps
after each reader.
The celebration wouldnʼtbe complete without apicture slideshow of the
school year. Miss Ely likes to show the parents just what theirchildren have been up to in third grade. Finally, special prizesare raffled off (which are donated by Miss Elyʼs family) andeach student leaves with a special keepsake. The specialkeepsake is a Memory Book that is filled with pictures of theyear, reflection sheets, and work completed throughout the
year. In addition, Miss Ely and each parent writes the student a letter sharing their proud feelings!
Third Grade Poetry Cafe is truly a night to remember! Thank you to every person who hassupported and loved Room 215. Happy summer!
Miss Ely and the Students of Room 215 present......
Poetry Cafe
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BIG Brother/BIGSister Reading
Club
We have many families
in our school with big
brothers and sisters who
are eager to help their
younger brother or sister
learn to read and
practice reading.
Several of these
students have eagerly
volunteered to be in our
Big Brother/Big Sister
Reading Club. Afterschool, they practice
letters and sounds,
rhyming words, reading
sight words, reading
stories and books and
even help with writing!
It is so wonderful to
have so many teachers
at our school!
With summer quicklyapproaching, thekindergarten and firstgrade teachers havebeen gatheringmaterials for theirstudents to take home
for the summer. Withlots of reading, writingand practicing math,we expect ourstudents to return to usready for their new
grade. Kindergarten studentshave become video “movie stars”and will be given a video at the
end of kindergarten to watcheach day. Letters, sounds,writing, rhyming and countingactivities are included as a funway to review the skills taught inkindergarten.
A special packet was put togetherfor our new kindergarten studentswho will attend F.A. MarchElementary School next fall.
Inside their new backpacks weremany special educational treatswhich included a video made by kindergarteners showing whatthey should know before they come to kindergarten, pencil, arhyming book, an ABC book and they were also allowed to pickout a book from PTA. We are so excited to have new studentscome to our school.
Leopards Leap intoSummer Learning with
Reading and Math Packets
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Ready...Set....
Drop!SPLAT!, is what our
students were trying to
avoid hearing during our
Egg Drop this pastTuesday, May 22.
Students had to build a
container to protect a
raw egg dropped from
various heights. The
students came up with
some very invented and
smart containers. We
had 55 students makeprojects. Students
competed at grade level
competitions then
finalist were dropped off
the top of the building by
Mrs. Steinberg and Miss
Kordek. All the students
who made it to the final
round surveyed.
Congratulations to allstudents!! Some
pictures also on the
Easton Express Times.
The school year is moving quickly and most of theholidays have come and gone. The students of MarchElementary are all working hard and learning health
and fitness skills that will help and last them a lifetime.We always talk about getting enough rest and sleep as wellas exercise and discuss healthy eating choices and habits. This yearwe also have added discussions of the bones and muscles of thebody.
We started the year with circuit training, which included checking,and counting heart beats as well as how to do a proper warm-up andcool down with all our activities. This includes stretching for the upperand lower body, push ups and sit-ups/curl-ups for strength along with
jumping jacks, jumping rope, mountain climbers, line jump
and many more activities that they can do and use allyear long.
We moved into soccer skills activities stressingthe footwork of all students and than moved intocatching and throwing skills using soft baseballs
and soft softballs along with foam and rubberfootballs to work on hand-eye coordination skills.
All classes practice and the fourth grade are tested twicea year on what is called the FITNESSGRAM by The
Cooper Institute. This is a comprehensive andcomputerized reporting system, which allowsindividualized reports for each student onflexibility, cardio-vascular endurance and
muscular strength. All students did awonderful job and showed good effort.
Next were basketball skills, floor hockeyskills, bowling, tennis and an introduction to racketskills, and volleyball bump and set techniques. Finallywe move to various track and field events such as 50
and 100-meter sprints, long jump, high jump and turbo jav to work on various skills and
movements and at all times teaching,showing and stressing teamwork andsportsmanship.
This all relates back to our positivebehavior program called F.A.M.E. and our
district wide AGF program of having allstudents learning how to grow up to be healthy,successful and productive citizens of society.
Health and Fitness
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Mother’s Day
Poetry! March School third
graders began writing
poems for National Poetry
Month in April. Each
student has been working
on poems to honor their
mom or a special
member of their family.
Students created poems
that followed the pattern in
the Margaret Wise Brown
story called, The Important
Book. They also created
shape poems, Haikus,
rhyming poems and
poems using
personification. The
students published their
poetry turning them into
books of poems.
On Tuesday May 8th, the March School community was treated tothe sounds of the 3rd and 4th grade choruses. The 40-member 3
grade chorus treated us to a great rendition of Owl Cityʼ
s “Fireflieswhile the 30-member 4th grade chorus encouraged us to hear theworld singing with “Iʼd Like to Teach the World to Sing”. Thechoruses then combined their efforts and sang three songstogether. These included “Empire State of Mind” and “For Good”from the musical Wicked. They closed the concert with “Donʼt StoBelievinʼ”. The students and parents raved about how great theconcert was.
On Thursday May 10th, the March band and orchestra took thestage of the EAMS 7/8 auditorium to present a combined concert
with the six other elementary schools of the Easton Area SchoolDistrict. The students were very excited to play with such a largegroup and got a taste of what it will be like to be in the 5 th gradeband and orchestra. The Orchestra played 4 selections including“Two Terrific Tunes” and “Fiddlers Hoedown”. The band played 3selections including “In Search of the Lost Treasure Chest” andarrangement of songs from the farm entitled “Farm FreshFavorites”. Marchʼs very own music teacher, Miss Klabunde,arranged this piece. The evening was huge success and enjoyedby all who were in attendance.
Music in May
! The third grade
students at F.A. March
Elementary School would
like to thank the PTA for
sponsoring their recent
trip to the Lakota Wolf Preserve. The money earned by fundraising throughout the school
year goes directly to funding grade-level field trips. The students are appreciative of the
March School PTA for supporting learning outside the classroom.
!
The students enjoyed a wonderful field trip to the Lakota Wolf Preserve on Friday,May 11, 2012. They observed the packs of Tundra, Timber and Arctic wolves from a
natural surroundings-observational area. While watching the playful interaction of the
wolves, the students listened to an informal presentation where they learned the social
structure of the wolf packs, their eating habits, communication, and interaction with man.
The children interacted with the wolves, encouraging them to howl.
! In addition, the students were able to observe foxes and bob cats also living at the
Preserve. They enjoyed a close-up view of the animals, learning about their survival in
the wild. Enjoying a bagged lunch at the Camp Taylor picnic grounds and a visit to the gift
shop rounded out the trip. Pictures on the next page.
Lakota Wolf Preserve
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Lakota Wolf Preserve
Third Grade Field Trip
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F. A. March elementary has beenapproved with a grant for a Fresh Fruit andVegetable Program (FFVP) from the state.Students will get the experience to try 3different fresh fruits or vegetables a week.Teachers are excited to help improve andexpand the knowledge and tastes of thestudents and their families.
On May 2 we had our 4th Annual Reading OlympicsCompetition with an approximate total of 230 students at the finalevent from all seven elementary schools.
Throughout the year 3rd and 4th grade students readbooks off a specific list chosen by the district librarians. Aftereading the books they then write questions which will be used inhe culminating event.
Students compete ineams against each other.
We had two teams,21 students altogether,who participate fromMarch. They did anAMAZING job and had
un doing it! We are all soproud of their hard work.Way to go LittleLeopards!!
VISIT THE SCHOOLWEBSITE @
HTTP://WWW.EASTONSD.ORG /MARCH/WELCOME.HTML
SCHOOL ADDRESS:
429 READER STEASTON, PA 18042
PHONE NUMBER:
610-250-2531
Articles
Contributions:
! M. Kinney! J.S. Ely
! C. Kordek
! J. Brunetti! E. Costello
! L. Klabunde! L. Weider
! 3rd Grade
! 1st Grade! 4th Grade
! J. Repasch
Compiled By: M. Kinney and C. Kordek
Reading Olympics
Fresh Fruit and
Vegetable Program