Trimester Change for Allied Arts - THIS WEEK!
It is almost time to switch allied arts for the second trimester of the school year. Second trimester, for art, health and library only, is starting on November 30.
Students currently in Art switch to Library.
Students currently in Library switch to Health.
Students currently in Health switch to Art.
Classroom teachers will be sharing your child's new second trimester Allied Arts with you soon.
More Fact Strategies for Second Grade
Mrs. Dow's second graders are starting a new unit in their math curriculum. In Unit 3 of Everyday Mathematics, second grade students explore additional strategies for solving basic facts, focusing on strategies for solving subtraction facts. Students solve subtraction number stories and practice facts using games and routines.
In Everyday Mathematics students learn several strategies for solving subtraction facts. By becoming familiar with a variety of strategies, children have the opportunity to choose a strategy that works best to solve a particular fact. The goal is not for every child to master every strategy; the goal is for children to find the strategies they best understand and can most successfully apply. By encouraging discovery and practice, working with multiple strategies helps children develop fluency with subtraction facts, which will be important for computation with multidigit numbers later in the year.
A Game of SPLAT in Kindergarten
Ms. Van Orman's class had a special visitor for math! Ms. Bailey, our district math strategist, joined the class to show them some math games. First, they matched numbers and ten frames as a group. Then, they played a game called Splat!
Splat is a math game that encourages students to analyze number relationships to connect and communicate mathematical ideas.Ms. Bailey would show students some dots and then did a splat by covering some dots up! Students took turns sharing how many dots were covered by the splat and how they knew.
Easy Fundraising
Mabel's Labels - help us, help you. Search Pond Cove Parent Association and PCPA will automatically get a kick back and you'll lose fewer things.
Clynk Bags for your grade! - reach out to Claire Joyce (claire.adelman@gmail.com) to get your bags. These funds follow your student all the way through middle school and helps cover costs for Chewonki - the CE tradition of an outdoor education week in middle school.
Hannaford Grocery Card Fundraiser - Have you joined yet? It's so easy! Fill out the form and send in a check by the deadline. Your card will be mailed to you or reloaded if you already have one. Our schools get back 5% of our bulk order! Money raised goes towards outdoor programming for your child's class or to teacher grants - you choose! You may also pay through Venmo (fees will apply). Reach out to Laura Allen for more info! (allenlaura207@gmail.com)
It's PCPA Night at the Maine Celtics! January 26th - gates at 6pm, game at 7pm!
This has been SO fun in past years. We basically fill the stands with Pond Covers, we get to do the 50/50 raffle, the living flag in the beginning with the national anthem, and everyone gets a free Maine Celtics hat! Buy your tickets now and bring all your friends - it's bound to be a fun night! Last year it raised almost $800 for PCPA programming.
Buy your tickets here: https://fevo-enterprise.com/event/Pondcove
Pond Cove Elementary School
- Tiffany Karnes, Principal: tkarnes@capeelizabethschool.org
- Sarah Forrey-Pettit, Assistant Principal: sforreypettit@capeelizabethschools.org
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