What a beautiful weekend, gazing upon colorful leaves and listening to the honking of geese flying overhead!

Thank you all for attending Open House this week. It was wonderful to see so many happy families gathering to celebrate and support their children at UCS! Just hours before, our class worked hard to complete our Citizenship service project — gathering the remaining pumpkins, laying out our freshly painted kindness rocks, and creating a cheerful scarecrow to sit among it all. Watching the children carry the scarecrow while giggling together was absolutely heartwarming!

We started our week with an incredible field trip to Chapin’s Orchard. The staff welcomed us warmly and shared fun facts about apples and farming. Thank you to our chaperones for joining us! Back at school, students enjoyed making apple prints and homemade applesauce to continue our apple theme.

Kindergartners also had their first Tea Time Tuesday and sipped on some lemon balm tea. Tea Time is a lovely opportunity to practice manners like saying “please” and “thank you,” and to learn what to do if we don’t care for something. It’s also a wonderful way to build plant literacy. Later in the week, students had fun baking lemon balm cookies!

In literacy, students explored an author study on Grace Lin. We read several of her beautiful books, discussed their themes, compared them, and wrote about our favorite parts.

We ended our week with an exciting visit from the Underhill Fire Department! It’s always such a treat to learn from our courageous firefighters and see the fire truck up close. A special shout-out to Clara’s dad, Luke, who is one of these skilled and brave firefighters!

A note from our school nurse:

Over the next three weeks, the health office will be conducting hearing and vision screenings for students in Kindergarten, 1st, and 3rd grades, as well as for students receiving special services. Families will be notified if their child does not pass a screening or if additional follow-up is recommended.

Important dates

Oct 13 - Mon Music with Buddy

Oct 20-23 Caregiver Conferences

Oct 27 - Mon Recycle Rhonda visit

Oct 27 - Oct 31 Book Fair in our school library and Bike Week @ UCS

Sorry this is a little on the longer side this week!