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This Week at Cold Spring SchoolFriday, March 5, 2010Auction 2010Stephanie Carbone, mother of Sophia, Olivia and Mallory, welcomes anyone interested in soliciting donations for the Auction to join her in the art studio on Wednesday, March 17, following school meeting. Stephanie is a veteran of two auctions and will be coordinating solicitation efforts along with Deborah Caplan, mother of Deanna Heine. You can reach Stephanie at 203-650-9335 (cell) or 203-421-5733 (home). Snow Day Make-Up Day: March 22Monday, March 22, is Cold Spring School’s snow day make-up day. The school will be CLOSED on this day unless there is another full snow day between now and then. Offsite vacation child care is offered at the JCC in Woodbridge. Information about signing up with be sent home early next week. Reminder: Shop Locally And Benefit Cold Spring SchoolWhen you're in the market for a child's toy, bottle of wine or a unique piece of furniture, consider Jesse's or Evan's Toys, The Wine Thief or Fairhaven Furniture (biannual floor model sale going on now!) where your purchases and mention of Cold Spring School will yield a donation from our friends at these fine businesses. Thank you! Preschool NewsThe preschoolers celebrated Chinese New Year with the help of Octavio's family. Mary and Octavio's PoPo showed the children how to make steamed dumplings and noodles. The children especially liked using the machine that pressed the dough really flat. The students also decorated the classroom with Chinese lanterns. and learned how to write in Chinese. Thank you Mary and PoPo. K/1 Class NewsLaura & Maryanne's class has been very busy during the last few weeks! The students visited the planetarium at Southern CT State University and learned about the sun, the planets and their moons, and the constellations. Each child made a drawing of things he or she found most interesting, and then put them together in a book. The class celebrated the 100th day of school with many activities. They included bringing in collections of 100 items, writing 100 words, guessing the number of items in estimation jars and then counting the items in different ways. The class also sat in silence for 100 seconds, and built a sculpture with 100 marshmallows! Figuring out how many marshmallows each student would be able to put on was almost as most fun as making the sculpture! (14 students x 7 marshmallows = 98. The two teachers each added 1!) Thanks to our hosts, Aisling Colón and Jonathan Holloway, the class visited the Calhoun College community at Yale University. The class was treated to a tour of the grounds including the newly renovated basement. The highlight of the trip was having lunch in the dining hall with students and staff. Thank you very much! Art Studio NewsThere are three new exhibits. The 6th Grade students have relief sculptures in the front hall. The shapes are cut out of tarpaper, painted on both sides and mounted in relief on white oak tag. In the hallway on the way to Brianna and Amy's K/1 classroom there is an exhibit by their class of three-dimensional sculptures of some Cold Spring community members. On the board outside Brianna and Amy's room is an exhibit of numbers and letters using pattern and color. Thank you to everyone for all the contributions of items for the upcoming auction projects that have been received so far. After School ActivitiesInformation went home in pockets this week about the Shakesperience Theater Program for students in grades 3-6 starting soon. Please be sure to sign up with your child’s classroom teacher and then bring your payment to MaryAnn if interested. Registration information for the Common Ground After School Program for students in grades K-5 went home this week. Registration should be completed online for this program. If you need another flier, please see MaryAnn or Amy Irwin. Thank YouThank you to all of the Cold Spring friends and families for supporting Houses for Haiti. Because of your support, Haitian Ministries will be receiving a generous donation of $1,630.80! Thank you to the Wednesday morning baker from last week, Joanne Martinez, for providing delicious baked goods for parent coffee following school meeting. Thank you to this week’s Wednesday morning baker, Shel Swanson, for providing delicious baked goods for parent coffee following school meeting. Laura and Maryanne’s K/1 class would like to thank Sandy Jedziniak and John Cusick for helping the class assemble the three-dimensional sculptures in art class. Kate and Catelin’s 2/3 class would like to thank Matthew Cohen for being the Mystery Reader last week. The children enjoyed Matthew's snow costume and his reading of Sam and Me by Patrick Ellam. Thanks, Matthew! Kate and Catelin’s 2/3 class would like to thank Janine Felson for being the Mystery Reader this week. The children loved her readings from The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo, Walter the Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba, and poems from Because a Fire was in my Head. Penny and Gretta's 2/3 class thanks Melissa Joralemon, Ella's mother, Terri Bennett, Beth's mother, Andie Asnes, Simon's mother, Adriana Rubinstein, Joaquin's mother, and Gina D'Errico, Samantha's mother, for being driver-chaperones on their field trip to The Ralph Walker Skating Rink on February 12th. DATES TO REMEMBERSave the Date for Auction 2010: Build a Greener Future Snow Day Make-Up Day: Offsite Vacation Child Care offered at the JCC in Woodbridge
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