Happening This Week:

• Monday 5/13
  • Softball Practice 2:30-4:30
• Tuesday 5/14
  • Softball Practice 2:30-4:30
  • School Board Meeting
• Wednesday 5/15
  • 2nd Grade field trip to Norlands
  • Softball Game @ Athens 4:00 pm
  • Youth Art Exhibit Cracker and Cheese Reception at the CV Library 4:00-5:30
    • For the month of May, local youth art will be displayed throughout the CV Library/Community Building. On May 15, there will be a reception with snacks, come see some of our students amazing art pieces! If you can’t make it to the reception, swing through the CV community building anytime during open hours and view the artwork.
• Thursday 5/16
  • “Planetarium” guest presentation in the gym
  • Softball Practice 2:30-4:30
• Friday 5/17
  • Softball Game Home vs Rangeley 2:45 pm
  • PTC & 5th Grade Play at the Community Building in the evening-
    • $10/ticket- available at the door
    • Dinner 4:45 (with Stratton Steel Drum Band performance)
    • Show 5:30

Upcoming Dates:

• Monday 5/20
  • Softball Game Home vs Carrabec 4:00 pm
• Wednesday 5/22
  • Spring Celebration
    • 1:00 Spring Student Music Performance
    • followed by art walk, garden/dome tours, seedling sale, and more
• Thursday 5/23
  • Grades K-5 Author Visit with Peter Brown- at KES, students gone 12:15-2:25
• Monday 5/27
  • NO SCHOOL- Memorial Day
• Friday 5/31
  • Softball Game @ Rangeley 4:00 pm
• Monday 6/3
  • Softball Game Home vs Athens 4:00 pm
• Wednesday 6/5
  • 2nd Grade Poetry & Pastries 6:30 pm (for 2nd grade families)
• Thursday 6/7 – Friday 6/8
  • 8th Grade Trip
• Tuesday 6/11
  • 8th Grade Graduation
• Thursday 6/13
  • Student Last Day of School- Early Release with dismissal at 11:30 am

Other Update/Pics

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Spring Celebration & Seedling Sale

Join us for our Spring Celebration!

The afternoon will start off with a Student Spring Music Concert at 1:00. After the concert we invite everyone to stay and participate in garden/grow dome tours, an art walk throughout the school , and more.

We have grown TONS of seedlings that will be available at this years Spring Celebration. (Note: Seedling Sale will be available 2:00-4:00, if you can’t make it to this event but would like to buy seedlings please contact Katie Wuori at kwuori@strattonschool.org)

Seedling varietals include, but are not limited to:

• Broccoli
• Squashes
• Tomatoes (pink, paste, slicing, goldie, ground cherry)
• Cucumbers (pickling, early spring)
• Oregano
• Basil
• Marigolds
• Parsley
• Bell Peppers
• Red Peppers
• Celery
• Pie Pumpkins

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PBIS Family Surveys:

Please take a few minutes to complete the linked PBIS Family Survey. We appreciate your participation and value the data and feedback we receive from these. When you complete the survey, email or Remind message Jesse Hughes (jhughes@strattonschool.org) to be entered to win a $25 Fotter’s Gift Certificate.

Please complete by May 17th.

https://www.pbisassessment.org/Anon/VtMN0Cy6YG0

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STEM Day

We had a school wide STEM Day last week. Students spent the morning in mixed grade groupings completing a variety of STEM activities and challenges. STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The focus of our STEM Day was to participate in collaborative hands-on, problem solving based learning.

Students worked together to build strong structures out of toothpicks and mini marshmallows that were then tested against a simulated earthquake (gelatin). They also worked to build the tallest towers out of different sized cups, figuring out the best way to achieve height without the tower falling down. Students designed and constructed noise making kazoos, discussing sound waves, musical instruments, and inventions that make noise/music. Finally there were stations with building materials, blocks, and ramps with toy cars where students made predictions on which ramp would lead to cars traveling the furthest and/or fastest and discuss how they could improve the ramps for further/faster travel.

What a fun morning of learning we had!

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