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Its Christmas Everywhere : Winter ConcertThe F.A. March Elementary School chorus presented its winter concert, Its Christmas Everywhere

on Tuesday December 6. The air was filled with joyful songs from countries around the world.Drumbeats accompanied the African song, Sing We All Noel, while hula dancers added zest to A

Hawaiian Christmas. The chorus also sang songs from Japan, Australia, Germany and Mexico.

Students and parents enjoyed the musical evening all while learning about Christmas traditions from

around the world. Dont forget to join us for our beginning band and orchestra concert on Monday

February, 6 for another fun filled musical evening.

Fourth Grade students

playing instruments during the

singing of Sing We Noel

December2011

A 1st Grader buildingnumbers with base ten blocks

1st Graders adding using

touch math


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Students in Miss Elyshird grade class needed

some help choosinggood books to read. We

found that we keptreading the same genre

of books. To helpexpose students to

different types of books,students played Musical

Books! Its the sameidea of the traditional

game Musical Chairs butwith a twist.

Chairs were placed in a circle. On each chair was a different bookfrom various genres and of various reading levels. Students danced

their ways around the chairs when the music started. When themusic stopped, they found the closest chair to them, picked up the

book, sat and read for four minutes. This was just enough time forstudents to preview the

book to see if they mightwant to read the book laterduring independent

reading time.

Students were excited andmotivated to try different

books. Many of thestudents found books they

want to addto their reading list!

First inMath

An onlinemath program

with games to practiceall areas of math skills.It can be played both atschool and home.

Top Monthly Class4th Grade -! Mr. Hinkle (+1,996)3rd Grade -! Miss Haller (+3,120)2nd Grade -Mrs. Rodrigues (+7,182)

Total School Count:47,590

Box Top Update

The Little Leopards at F.A.March continue to MakeThemselves Proud bycollecting Box Tops! Eachmonth, a new collectionsheet is sent home. Everystudent is encouraged to fillup their collection sheet andreturn it to school.

For the month of November,the F.A. March Schoolcommunity collected 1,367

Box Tops bringing our totalto 5,753 Box Tops! Way togo Third Grade! Theycollected the most thismonth and were recognizedat Decembers March PrideAssembly!

Miss Elys Musical Books


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Many F.A. March studhave had the opportunto participate in an excenrichment program

called, "Mad Science: NASA" program. This aschool program takes the students on a voyagdiscovery through space allowing them a chanto explore Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

During eachsession, thestudents

complete hands on activities, viewengaging demonstrations andreceive take home activities tocomplete at home with theirfamilies. F.A. March will be offeringthis session one more time thiswinter for students who wereinterested, but did not get a chance

to participate in the fall session.Details will be sent home and can b

found in the main office. There are limited spots available, so save yspot soon! The Mad Science program is out of this world!!!

F.A. March Elementary School would like towish good luck to their student teachers. SusYacoub from Drexel University and Katie Smfrom Bloomsburg University will both graduain December. Miss Yacoub and Miss Smith aready to embark on their journey as first year

teachers and are excited to have a classroom of their own. While at F.March, Miss Yacoub taught First Grade. She taught the children aboutFirst Thanksgiving and helped the children to create Native American aPilgrim costumes to celebrate the holiday. While teaching the childrenabout animals and their habitats, Miss Yacoub worked with students tocreate triaramas. The animals were made out of model magic and the

children could not wait to share them with their classmates. Miss Smithtaught in Third Grade. She taught the children personification and helpthem to create animal fantasystories. She also turned thereading story, Tops and Bottomsinto a Readers Theater. Inaddition, Miss Smith created propsto enhance their performance. F.A.March Elementary School wishesMiss Yacoub and Miss Smithmuch success in their future

teaching endeavors.

A Special ThankYou to Our

America ReadsTutors

This Fall, the

classrooms had specialliteracy and mathsupport providedthrough ourcommunity partnershipwith LafayetteColleges AmericanReads/America Countsprogram.

Tutors worked withsmall groups ofstudents in classroomssettings with manyactivities for practiceand reinforcementwithin the math andliteracy areas.

Fifteen AmericaReads tutors assignedto F.A. March Schoolwere very dedicatedthroughout thesemester servicing ourstudents and staff withmore that forty hoursper week! Theenthusiasm and effortshowed each day whilesupporting in theclassroom settings wasappreciated by bothstudents and staff.

As the collegesemester comes to aclose, we wish ourspecial LafayetteCollege Leopards awonderful winterbreak and lookforward to havingthem back with theF.A. March LittleLeopards again in

February, 2012.

Wishing you GreatBeginnings!

Mad Science: NASA


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Third grade is enjoying the approaching

winter season withfun-filled mathactivities. The

students practicedtheir estimation skills by using buttons tocover an evergreen tree, cotton balls to covera snowflake, and marshmallows to cover acup of hot chocolate. Initially, the studentsmade predictions and then counted the actualnumber of buttons, cotton balls, ormarshmallows needed to cover each shape.The students did a museum walk toestimate items used by the other groups ofstudents. Then, the projects were displayed in the hallway showcaseso other students could gain a better perspective of estimation.

Throughout the month of December, thethird graders will rotate through eachclassroom to sharpen their money skills.In Miss Hallers class, the students will bestamping amounts of money, showingmore than one combination of coins forthe requested amount. In Mrs. Costellosclass, the students will build a snowmanon a budget. Each student will select allthe parts of a snowman, calculating thecost and remaining within their allotted$5.00 budget. Theywill then pay for theirsnowman with a$5.00 bill, being

sure to calculate their correct change. In MissElys class, the students will plan a winter menuincluding a main dish, a side dish, dessert, anda drink. They will then solve word problems thatencourage the students to add or subtractmoney in order to calculate the cost of their fooditems from their menu. The students will thenpay for their meal with $5.00 or $10.00 andcalculate the change due for the itemspurchased. Thursday mornings at F.A. MarchElementary School are filled with lots ofopportunities to practice counting coins and

making change.

4th Grade Causeand Effect Poems

Mrs. Scarponis 4th

Grade class created

cause and effect

statements. Then, usingthe Diamante format

expanded the idea to

transform their

statements into a poem.

The Big Homerun

Practice

Challenge, Dedicated

Repeating, Focusing,

Progressing

To keep working, Out of

the park

Hitting, Bombing,

Celebrating

Far, High

Homerun

Beautiful Flowers

Rain

Wet, Chilly

Pouring, Splashing,Showering

Umbrella, Water, Bees,

Spring

Budding, Sprouting,

Smelling

Colorful,

Beautiful

Flowers

3rd GradeThinking

Thursda s


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Week Day Clubs

Weekday Clubs arenearing the end of the 8-week session at F. A.March Elementary School.Grade level groups of 4-7students have beenmeeting weekly with theschool counselor and afacilitator from the Centerfor Humanistic Change tolearn some new skills.Topics such as trust,decision-making,

identification andexpression of feelings,friendship and familieshave been addressed.The students have beensharing their ideas andexperiences to help eachother handle differentkinds of situations.Congratulations to allstudents in grades 1-4

who have participated inthe groups! Anothersession of Weekday Clubswill run later in the year.

Climbing the Staff to Success

Future Leadership is Accomplished

Discover New Skills along the way

Begin with the basics

Greatness is achieved through hard work

Everyone can be successful

During Parent's Visitation Day,parents were responsible forrunning Language Arts learningcenters in Mrs. Rodrigues' Class. Centers included the grammar game"Contractions Bingo," the writing activity "Build a (Complete)Sentence" using "who," "what," and "where" picture/word cards, and areading comprehension activity that consisted of a read-aloud,identification of all parts of the story, and retelling the story. Studentshad a blast learning with their parents in the classroom!

Parent VisitationDay:

Mrs. RodriguessClass

To apply the students' knowledge onsummarizing a story, and developpresentation skills, Mrs. Rodrigues'second graders created Book Boxes.Students used decorated cereal boxes todisplay their summaries, as well as all theparts of the story (title, author, illustrator,characters, and setting). The Book Boxesalso included a five-star rating scale thatshowed how much the students enjoyed reading the stories. Studentsthen presented the Book Boxes to the class. What a fun way tobecome better independent readers!

Mrs. Rodrigues sClasss Book Boxes

Enjoy Music

Caring for each other

Appreciate new music styles

Friendships developed along the way


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The fourth grade students at F.A. March ElementarySchool learned that a geode is a hollow rock that isfilled with sparkling crystals. The geodes start off as ahollow bubble inside a layer of rock. The bubble couldbe from air inside explosive volcanic rock or it couldcome from the hollow remains of animal burrows or treeroots. The crystals are formed when mineral-rich watermoves on through the bubble, leaving tiny crystalsbehind, which cling to the sides of the bubble. Millionsof years pass while this in and out flow of watergradually builds crystals inside the empty space. Canyou spot the real geode that is mixed-in with the student-made geodes?

4th Grade Studies

Geodes in Art Class!


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VISIT THE SCHOOLWEBSITE @

HTTP://WWW.EASTONSD.ORG/MARCH/WELCOME.HTML

SCHOOL ADDRESS:

429 READER STEASTON, PA 18042

PHONE NUMBER:

610-250-2531

Articles

Contributions:

S. Telesz

J. Ely M. Kinney

A. Scarponi K. Gould

E. Costello

3rd Grade J. Brunetti

C. Rodrigues L. Curry

J. Reifsnyder

J. Steinberg

Compiled By: M. Kinney and C. Kordek

Alumni Welcomed!

Students from F.A.March School have tremendous memories builtduring their education here. This is heard repeatedly from the alumnigroups which come through these doors throughout a year. So farthis year, our school has welcomed two classes of alumni, a total ofabout forty people, who excitedly entered the front doors. Theinterested alumni remarked favorably about the renovations, then

jumped into the personal stories reminiscing about their wonderful andmischievous grade school years. The last group broke into song whenI shared how we resurrected and continually sing the Alma Mater withtodays students! The rich history, of this beautiful edifice, and thestories held deep in the walls are obviously valued by manythroughout the Easton area and around the world, as witnessed whenany of these groups enter this building. We enjoy the opportunity to

open our doors to alumni groups who have passed through F. A.March on their educational journey!

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