Happy Friday Roderick Families!
Term II report cards were sent home today.
Thank you to all the families who were able to join us this morning for our second Positive Referral breakfast of the 2014-2015 school year. The Food Service department provided coffee, juice, and a variety of delicious treats for everyone to enjoy. Thank you to them for all of their hard work organizing this event. Lastly, a huge thank you to all of the students who continue to demonstrate outstanding character. We are so proud of you for making such great choices each and every day!
On a visit to Ms. Phipps' fifth grade room this week, I had the chance to see the students working cooperatively learning a new reading comprehension strategy called Really???
The children were doing a great job!
Thank you to Kevin in Mrs. Farrell's class for sharing his awesome spelling sentences with me this week.
Our Student Council is shown above with the $100.00 check our school will be donating to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Thank you to all who donated to this project. Special thanks to Lukas Williams (Grade 5) who created this idea, our Student Council, and our PTO for facilitating the project.
Congratulations to our DI Teams! They performed very well last weekend. Thanks for making Wrentham proud.
This year’s DI Wrentham Wildcats are from the following
grades and Teams;
6th Grade Team Brown: Creature Feature Middle
School Level – 2nd Place
Harry, Seth, Peyton, Brianna,
Keeling
5th Grade Team Anderson/Barros: Creature Feature
Elementary Level – 4th Place
Kylie, Tyler, Julia, Dylan,
Zachary, Will, Kylie
5th Grade Team Tobichuk/Spada: The Improv Games –
2nd Place
Jack, Sam, Cooper, John, Max
5th Grade Team Brengel/Bartlett: Creature Feature
– 2nd Place
Jacob, Nicolas, Camden, Zachary, Sean
5th Grade Team Hepburn: The Improv Games – 1st
Place
Randy, Flynn, Michael, Quinn,
Tyler, Jordyn (3rd Grade)
3rd Grade Team McFarlane/Mellman/Sansoucy:
Creature Feature Elementary Level – 1st Place
Isabella, Shea, Hannah, Callie, Chloe, Rebekah
3rd Grade Team Garstka/Crisafi: Feary Tales – 4th
Place
Nathaniel, Maggy, Dominic, Julia, Luke, Sarah, Brady
3rd Grade Team Cahoon/Mooney: Feary Tales 1st
Place
Shaylee, Larry, Skyler, Brianna,
Carson
Next week begin our Spring 2015 ELA MCAS Administration for our fourth and fifth graders. Grade six will begin on April 1st. Thanks for making sure the students are well rested, in school on time and ready to take the MCAS test on their MCAS days!
Next week we will begin our tenth annual March Madness Foul Shooting Contest. This contest is open to all fifth and sixth grade students. This year's tournament begins on Tuesday, March 24th. Please contact Mr. Adam Moon with any questions.
The next PTO meeting will take place next week Tuesday, March 24th at 7:00 PM in
the Delaney teachers' lounge. There will be samples of the Mixed bags to see
(Spring Fundraiser). Great products
this year!!
Also, the PTO is need of donations from local business for the staff appreciation raffles. If you would like
to help out, please email us at wrenthampto@gmail.com
Congratulations to this week's Positive Referrals! Thank you for making our school such a great place!
Principals' Coffee - Friday, March 27th
On Friday, March 27th we will be hosting our third term Principals’ Coffee. During this time, we will talk about the process we will use for placing students in classrooms for 2015-2016 school year. This Principals’ Coffee will be held on Friday, March 27th at 8:30 AM in the Vogel Auditorium. Please note that if you are stuck for child care, please feel free to bring your little ones. We hope that you will be able to stop in after you drop off your child(ren) on this day. Food service director, Mrs. Judy White Orlando and her staff will be providing refreshments for this presentation.
Balloons for Mr. Moon
Raffle tickets will be sold starting Monday, March 23rd and will be on sale up through Thursday, March 26th. Students can purchase raffle tickets at lunch in the hopes of winning a prize. Some of the prizes include being the PE teacher for your class, an extra PE period for your class, lunch with Mr. Moon, and other great prizes. Tickets are $1 each or 8 for $5.
Mrs. Farrell's Grade 4 students were working together this week to create a
division word problem based on a division equation. They needed to solve the
original equation, check their work, write a word problem using the equation,
write the equation with labels and lastly explain their answer of they
interpreted the remainder. Great job!
Congratulations to the Spurs and the NY Liberty for winning the After School Basketball Championship last night. Thank you to all of the Roderick students who participated in the after school basketball program and helped make another memorable season.
Congratulations to the Grade 6 students who defeated the Wrentham staff last night. Patrick from Mrs. Haughey's class hit a three-pointer with 20 seconds left to go to secure the win for the students!
A parent had emailed me this week requesting some information about the fourth grade writing on the upcoming MCAS. She had asked if I could point parents in a direction that would assist them in seeing the expectations that the state has for our fourth graders. I am including this link to help parents better understand the state's expectations.
http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/student/2013/question.aspx?GradeID=4&SubjectCode=ela&QuestionID=26878
If you click on the underlined numbers, that will take you to student
work/expectations.
Reading Across Wrentham - Update
Thank you for taking time to view the blog. Enjoy your weekend!
Stephen S. Grenham
