Inter-Lakes School District

Congratulations to Nicholas Curran (gr. 3), Taylor Ambrose (gr. 4) and Maeve Torrey (gr. 4), winners of the Inter-Lakes Athletics “Sportsmanship Essay Contest”. Nicholas, Taylor and Maeve wrote winning essays as part of National Sportsmanship Week (Feb. 6–10). Their essays addressed the question: “What does sportsmanship mean to you?” As winners, all three students became honorary members of the boys’ or girls’ varsity basketball teams for a night, received a sportsmanship t-shirt and read their winning essay during the game. Congratulations to Nicholas, Taylor, and Maeve…we’re proud of your great writing and proud of your commitment and understanding of good sportsmanship! Way to go!

The pre-school students recently learned how shadows are created and matched pictures of objects to the correct shadows. Most of the students would like more snow so they were happy to hear that silly Phil, the groundhog, saw his shadow and that more winter may be on its way.We are now learning about transportation as we sort vehicles that travel in the air, on the ground, on tracks or in the water. We have created floating paper "boats", trucks decorated with ripped paper and garages with vehicles illustrated inside. We have also completed books on ways to travel and included our favorites, played a memory game with different pictures of vehicles, assembled vehicle puzzles and colored different vehicles by number. We will soon have some Valentine fun and learn about the weather.

Parent to Parent Support Group Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

6:30 – 8:00 PM I-LES

Topic: Tips on managing your child’s behavior at home.

Presenter: David Freschi, Simply Good Ideas

RSVP: Maribeth Ryan, 279-3144

Child Care Available

A New Year leads to lots of new things in the grade three co-teach classrooms. Students have just concluded a unit in math dealing with place value. We learned about places from the millions down to the thousandths. It’s fun and challenging as we learned to read large and small numbers. Our new unit in math is about geometry. We are talking about lines, segments, rays and angles. Students are engaged in activities that include drawing and naming these objects. We will put segments together to make two-dimensional shapes.
Students are completing their first research project. They have been working in small groups to find out about the  food, the culture and the geography of Russia.