Fisher Family Update

Dear Fisher Families,

Next week, we begin parent/teacher conferences. Our conversations will focus on your student's transition to their new classroom, academic and social emotional progress and our learning goals for the year. Please come to the meeting ready to share about your child's experience so far and some goals you may have for your student this year. Please read through this edition of the Fisher Family Update for upcoming meetings and events.

Enjoy the weekend,

Brian

October

25 - Elementary Parent/Teacher Conferences - 6:00-8:00pm

27 - Early Release - Fisher dismissal at 12:25pm

27 - Elementary Parent/Teacher Conferences 1:00pm-3:00pm

November

2 - Elementary Parent/Teacher Conferences - 6:00-8:00pm

10 - NO SCHOOL - Veterans Day

15 - Picture retakes

22- Early Release - (12:25pm dismissal) Thanksgiving Break, classes resume Nov. 27

The 5th Grade Student Council is sponsoring a FOOD DRIVE

to benefit the Walpole Food Pantry….

Wednesday, Oct. 25th through Wednesday, Nov. 15th

Suggestions:

Kindergarten: pasta, soup, canned meat & fish

Grade 1: canned fruit, applesauce, jelly/jam, syrup

Grade 2: canned vegetables, oatmeal, cereal

Grade 3: salad dressing, mustard/ketchup, baked beans

Grade 4: peanut butter, tea/coffee, mac & cheese

Grade 5: household items (laundry detergent, napkins, paper towels, toilet paper) & personal care items (toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, deodorant)

***PLEASE check the expiration dates on your items!!***

These are only suggestions, please know that ANY and ALL donations are greatly appreciated! Please bring donations to Room 122 or to your homeroom where they can be collected by Student Council members!

Thank you!

Grade 5 Student Council

If you have not already, please choose a date and time from the link below to schedule a 10 minute conference with your student's teacher. The teachers are listed ALPHABETICALLY, you will need to scroll down to find the teacher name you are looking for. Please double check that you are signing up for the correct teacher. If you are scheduling conferences for more than one student, please allow time between them to get to the next classroom. Sign up sheets will be closed on Monday, October 23rd.

MCAS results were mailed home earlier this week. It is important to understand that the MCAS are one of the many ways we measure student progress across the curriculum. We also use many ongoing assessments in classrooms not only to measure student progress but also to assess the success of our district curriculum. Parent-teacher conferences will be taking place over the next two weeks and this is a great opportunity to hear about specific aspects of the grade-level standards that going well for your child and other areas that may be a challenge.

Group 1: Beatty, Blake, Hughes, Barend, Fomenko, Brogan, O'Neill

Dates: Oct. 18th, Nov. 1st, Nov. 15th, Dec 6th,

Group 2: Penfield/Vose, Winer, McDonald, Sullivan, Terranova, Wesinger

Dates: Oct. 25th, Nov. 8th, 29th, Dec. 13th

Each week will be introducing you to staff that are new to Fisher. This week's highlight is Mr Doucette.

My name is Phil Doucette, I'm a new ESP at Fisher School. I started as a substiute teacher and realized I liked it so much I applied for a full time position! I was a state trooper for 28 years before retiring to be a stay at home dad. When my youngest child started school, I started working for Walpole schools and really enjoy working with children and helping them learn.

Miss Romano's class became detectives and looked all around the room for words that had digraphs in them.

Stem Class

One more stem picture

ST Math Time

Scenes from Physical Education

Celebrating fall

Please fill out the form with the link below if you are interested in volunteering opportunities at Fisher school.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zJ2TMrb05kW4zNrTa0iIUiKRxQQrk_v_r8Z2ElKsB6w/edit?usp=forms_home&ths=true&pli=1

Note: You must have an active CORI to volunteer!

Please see signup genius for more information and to register your car. We will be collecting candy donations in the front entryway, if you are not decorating a car and would like to donate candy it would be greatly appreciated!

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/60B0E4CAEAF2BABFC1-44518182-4thannual

Schools are not at liberty to provide student contact information for outside of school activities. If you would like to provide your child (ren)'s information for others to see please click the link below and complete the form.

Fisher School Friendship Directory

Fisher School is looking for two parent representatives to serve on the Fisher School Council. Our meetings will take place on Tuesday afternoons from 3:45-4:45pm. We will meet every other month starting in October. Please email Brian Bemiss if you are interested or have any questions.