Math Night at Flynn was lots of fun this year! We counted 118 tally marks on our sign-in sheet. Pretty great for a beautiful spring evening with plenty of sports events and other happenings. A big thank you to the Family School Partnership, the PTO, and all the Flynn staff members, Flynn families, and special guests who helped make Math Night a success.
Here are the estimation jar results:
V.L., Ms. Solomon’s class, won the Skittles jar.
O.C., Ms. Burdick’s class, won the popcorn jar.
K.V., Ms. Noble’s class, won the Rollos jar.
The popcorn jar contained 1379 kernels of corn.
The Skittles jar contained 1111 skittles.
The Rollos jar contained 244 rollos.
Winners were drawn randomly from entries that fell within a range of reasonable estimates. There were many reasonable estimates and lots of hard work and excellent math thinking that went into the estimates that were submitted. Great job, everyone!
Ms. Tenenbaum's class counted the contents of the Tootsie Roll jar and presented awards to the winners. B.D., Ms. Solomon's class, N.E., Ms. Tremblay's class, and K.H., Ms. Brooks' class, each received one-third of the 30 Tootsie Rolls.
Parents: Making estimation jars with your children is a great way to work on math at home!RE: School Calendar for 2013-14
Dear Parents:
Burlington School District administration has been examining ways to increase student achievement. Using the Vermont Agency of Education recommendations for restructuring our schools, it is clear that students would benefit from teachers spending regular, ongoing, dedicated time to review student data and adjust instruction accordingly.
We are examining all options of when this work can occur, and have successfully piloted an early release day, with child-care options, at Hunt Middle School and the Sustainability Academy. For example, at SA the student day is extended by 15 minutes four days a week, and students are dismissed one hour early on Wednesdays, with child-care options for that hour in the school. In this way, there is no net loss of instructional time, and, if parents wish, children are still supervised during the early release. Teachers then have a two-hour uninterrupted block of time to work in teams and review student data, instructional methods and adjust and align instruction.
We are exploring whether this option of a one hour release once a week can work across the district as a whole. We are also looking at how to accommodate child-care and after-school programming needs so that parents would continue to have full coverage for their children in the mid-to-late afternoons.
When we have addressed all these possible scheduling issues and determine the best option with coverage for all students, we will bring more information to you.
Sincerely,
Jeanné Collins
Superintendent
Last week the Flynn community was treated to a terrifically entertaining production of "Frankenstein," featuring nearly 100 students singing and acting before three packed audiences. Congratulations to all of the students for their dedication and hard work! Lines were memorized, songs were sung in key--the maturity that the students showed up on stage was very impressive. The performers received honest feedback from Very Merry Theatre and they listened and made changes. The result was that every performance became stronger and better than the one before it. This is the fifth year that the Very Merry Theatre has partnered with the Food, drink and child care will be provided. Fifth grade students began their Starbase program this week. This newly revamped STEM curriculum integrates team building activities with problem solving and hand-son learning in science, technology, engineering at mathematics at the Air Guard base in
Placement information forms for parents and guardians will be sent home April 5th. This important information that you share with us, along with the input provided by teachers, is used to create balanced classrooms of students for the 2013-2014 school year. Please return this form to Karen Carr in the office by Friday, April 12th
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