21st Century Learning for Pre-K-8 in Shelburne, VT
Our first day of winter PE at the Shelburne Field House was a big success! Students enjoyed playing soccer and kickball, and everyone went home tired! During the winter months of January and February, students will be traveling to the Field House for indoor PE once a week.
Please join us for our monthly Parent Committee meeting on Tuesday, January 12th at 8:15 am. We will be discussing ways to promote Vermont Day School and planning for our spring fundraising event. More details to come!
Congratulations to all our of students on a fabulous winter music performance. Your “stage strong” presence was impressive, as was the music! The songs and instruments brought smiles to all of our faces. Thank you to all who attended, and to Helen Weston, our amazing music teacher.
This week in Spanish, students have created a supermercado (grocery store). They have priced the food, created VT Day School currency, made signs, coupons, receipts and even sale items. It has been a great way to practice Spanish vocabulary and conversational skills (math too!).
Our students will perform the songs they have composed in music class. We hope you can join us for this special presentation by the K/1 and 2/3/4 classes!
Students will bring the donations they have collected to the Chittenden County Emergency Food Shelf in Burlington. So far, we have collected 164 pounds of food, and each day, students have been sorting, weighing and graphing the donations. We are proud of our students’ efforts and look forward to helping out families in need.
Vermont Day School is closed for winter vacation from December 23rd through January 3rd. School will resume on Monday, January 4th. Happy Holidays!
Students will travel to the Flynn to see a performance of 3 Little Birds, a Jamaican adventure story. The play is based on a children’s book written by Bob Marley’s daughter, Cedella. We are all looking forward to both the music and the story!
Vermont Day School is having a Food Drive to collect food items for the Chittenden County Emergency Food Shelf. Please bring donations to the school between December 1st and 16th. Students will sort and weigh the food as it comes in. We will deliver it to the Food Shelf at the end of the week. Contributions from the community are welcome!
All parents welcome to attend our parent committee meeting on Tuesday, December 8th at 8:15 am to help us plan all school events and celebrations, and discuss fundraising. Looking forward to seeing you then!
As part of our fall CLIC week, students participated in a series of fun, engaging and educational compost related activities. Highlight from the week included an interactive presentation by Rhonda Mace, from Chittenden Solid Waste District, on the importance of composting. With Rhonda’s assistance, the students learned to use tools and build an outdoor bin out of pallets. They designed and painted indoor compost bins and signs, and created group presentations to describe how compostable food should get from our lunch room to the outdoor bin. They put their knowledge to the test on Friday during a compost relay race, during which they needed to sort food into appropriate piles (recycling, compost and waste). Not only was this week a great way to green up our school, but also an ideal opportunity for real-world problem-solving!
Please join us for a school-wide Thanksgiving gathering at 3 pm on Friday. A parent committee member will be coordinating a shared snack for all to enjoy.
