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The Snow Forecast #14

February 22, 2026

The SnowForecast #14February 22, 2026

What's Happening? What's Happening?

2/17: Ramadan began

2/23 Welcome back to school!

3/5: Academic Showcase, 6:00-7:00pm

3/11: PTO, 5:30

3/12: Early Release, noon

3/13: Inservice Day, no school for students

3/17 & 3/18: State Science Assessments for grade 5

Read Bowl Finale Read Bowl Finale

Students finished up participating in the Read Bowl and some of the UMaine Black Bear football team visited! They had a Q&A for all students, then the winners had outside time with the players. Congratulations to Miss Bourgoin and Mrs. Wilcox's classrooms for reading the most during the competition!

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News From the Library News From the Library

Happy February! We are already in the third quarter of the school year and great things are happening in the library. Students learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington. We made “quilt pieces” to show things that are important to us and put them up on a wall for display. We learned about author/illustrator Loren Long and watched an interview with him where he explained his inspiration for his book, The Yellow Bus.


Last week we read Lights Out A Movement to Help Migrating Birds, and explored the effects of light pollution on animals. Students then made posters to raise awareness for different creatures that are affected by light pollution. This week we are reading Claudette Colvin I Want Freedom Now,

which has been nominated for the Chickadee Book Award, along with the two previous books mentioned. We will continue to read all of the Chickadee Book Award nominees for this year, and students will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite later in the year.


The week of February 26th I will be reading fairy tales to students and we will explore similes and metaphors. Tell a Fairy Tale Day is on February 26th, so if you have a favorite you would like to share with your child, I would be happy to hear them retell it in the library! Have a fabulous February!

Mrs. Lobley

Librarian

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Attendance Attendance

From 2/6/26

GRADE 4: 94.74%

GRADE 5: 95.92%


From 2/13/26

GRADE 4: 91.4%

GRADE 5: 93.4%


Our goal weekly is 95%. Being at school keeps students feeling connected and confident with friends, the curriculum, and routines. Thank you for sending your child(ren) daily!

PBIS Weekly Winners! PBIS Weekly Winners!

Grade 4

Oliver S

Reid

Tori

Autumn

Avery

Oliver P

Kayden

Kieron

Adriana


Grade 5

Andrew

Tyler

Trin

Valentina

Naya

Ella

Dante

Garret

Makenna

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Music Class Update: Music Class Update:

In Music Class, we have been up to lots of fun and exciting things! 4th grade classes are wrapping up recorders. They have practiced lots of songs on this new instrument, and have grown so much since our first week. After we wrap up our recorder unit, 4th graders will begin preparing for their concert in April! 5th graders are finishing a short unit on beat making, followed by bucket drumming. Bucket drumming requires lots of focus and effort, and I am amazed by how well the 5th graders have done! Upcoming for the 5th graders is our "Music Around the World" unit, in which we will listen to various genres of music from all over the world, and discuss our thoughts on what we hear!

A Note from Mrs. Vanidestine A Note from Mrs. Vanidestine

Hello Mary Snow families! In the past few weeks both 4th and 5th grade students have learned to solve problems using the problem solving “STEP”s. Ask your student what the four steps are to dealing with a problem. Students also learned the importance of saying your problem without blame. All solutions also must be respectful and safe, which happen to be two of our PBIS RAMS matrix words. Following our problem solving unit, each class played a jeopardy style game to review everything we have learned using the Second Step classroom guidance curriculum so far this year. Students had a lot of fun with this, and I was impressed by how much they have remembered! Our next topic will be Bullying prevention and recognition.

Thank you to all of you who have donated towards new prizes for our weekly RAM award winners.

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News from PE News from PE

Recently students in PE class have been working on the National PE Skills Challenge. It is a national program designed to encourage students to work on and improve motor skills and cooperative skills. There are six challenges, three individual and three requiring a partner. The skills are: Jump roping, throwing and catching, volleying a volleyball, paddling a ball up, balance board partner challenge and hula hooping around the waist.

The students worked very hard on these challenges and immense progress was made! We are now practicing floor hockey skills and will be moving to games soon.

Mrs. Poisson - PE Teacher

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Lunch Menu Lunch Menu

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Parent Resources Parent Resources

Connect Safely

You can find guidelines for student use and internet safety, Tik Tok, Cyberbullying, and other related topics of concern for families.

https://connectsafely.org/about-us


Smart Social

The Bangor School Department has partnered with Smart Social. An online digital platform filled with resources for students and families.

https://www.smartsocial.com/


School Based Health Clinics (SBHC)

Bangor School Department has School Based Health Clinics (SBHC) that are available to all students. They are housed at Bangor High School, Cohen Middle School & Doughty Middle School.

https://www.bangorschools.net/o/bhs/page/pchc-school-based-clinic

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