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November 14, 2025

Dear AES Families,

It was wonderful to connect with so many of you during Parent–Teacher Conferences this week. If you were unable to meet with your child’s teacher or need to reschedule, please reach out to them directly to set up either an in-person or phone conference at a time that works for you.

Our Wreath and Poinsettia Sale is off to a great start! Thank you to everyone who has already placed an order. Please continue to share the online link with friends and family—every order supports AES students. All orders, along with payment, are due on Monday, November 17th. Delivery will take place before Thanksgiving break, and we will share the exact date and pick-up times as soon as they are confirmed.

Take a look below to see all the wonderful learning happening across AES!

All the best,

Beth Gibney
Principal, Antrim Elementary School
bgibney@conval.edu • 603-588-6371

11/17: All Wreath and Poinsettia orders Due

11/21: Community Meeting at 8:50

11/21: Turkey Trot (rain date 11/24)

11/25: Fall Feast

11/26-11/28: Thanksgiving Recess (no school)

12/5: Report cards come home

PTO Meeting Days

Survey

Thank you to the families who have expressed an interest in joining the AES PTO! Please complete this form so we can narrow down days of the week that would work best for meetings. We can also be flexible in our time of day. If you are not able to make all of the meetings, that is ok! We want as many to participate as possible,. Click here to complete the form if you have not already.

Wreath and Poinsettia Sale!

It’s that time of year again! The AES PTO is selling beautiful holiday wreaths and poinsettias. These festive favorites make perfect gifts and help support AES students and programs. 📧

For the past three years, AES has held a Thanksgiving FEAST for all of the students and staff. We cook a full Thanksgiving meal, volunteers join us to help with cooking, set up, serving, and clean up. Students in the school help to prepare as well by making placemats, cooking some of the food, preparing the multipurpose room and our older students serve as the hosts to lead people to their tables. We invite the district office to come join us at the feast and it has become a wonderful tradition!

We need your help to make this happen. Please use this link to a form to complete with ways you can help support the event before, during or after. We need people to bake desserts, make mashed potatoes and to be at the Feast to help. We will provide the ingredients to anything you would like to prepare. Feel free to add ways you would like to help because we might not have thought of that already.

Its Back!

We are so excited that Cooking with Cornucopia is back and has started! All of our 3rd and 4th grade students are participating in a cooking class once per week for five weeks. Skills of measurement, literacy, ratios for adjusting recipes for different serving sizes and each recipe not only uses fresh, healthy ingredients but also culminate over the five weeks into a full meal for the school to try. This week the recipe was an amazing Kale, Apple and Craisin salad. I had it for lunch and can't wait to get the recipe. The kids are having the best time. The pictures from the first class says it all!

Miss Claire's First Friends

Miss Claire’s class has started talking about turkeys! We have started off the month of November by making our own turkeys to spend the month in the classroom with us. We have also put up our bulletin board with our thankful feathers that the students made with their families!

Ms. Starr's First Friends

We have started our Thanksgiving theme with turkeys and being thankful.

Mrs. Petersen's Kindergarten Class

Mrs. Petersen’s Kindergarten class has been so busy wrapping up October and welcoming November. We painted pumpkins, did a fun science experiment to see which liquid caused our candy pumpkins to disappear first and most recently learned about Veterans Day. These little learners have so much to be proud of continuing to add to our sight word list as well as new letter sounds. We are finding these words and sounds everywhere! We have been building numbers to 10 in math and still recognizing more, less and the same amount. We had our very first field trip to the High School to see “The SpongeBob Musical” and had so much fun!

Mrs. Sullivan's First Grade

Our class had read a lot of Thanksgiving stories this week and we discussed what it means to be thankful. We wrote a list of what we are thankful for, wrote four of those details on 4 different feathers and created a turkey! In phonics, we worked on the unvoiced /th/ digraph which you find in the words think, thumb, Thanksgiving. In math, we’ve been sorting objects into categories and understanding sometimes there are more than one way to sort objects.

Ms. Voorhees's First and Second Grade Class

Ms. Voorhees’s Class worked on a writing piece about ways to stay healthy! We used an online platform called “PebbleGo” to complete research for our reports. We talked about the whole writing process using the acronym P.O.W, which stands for Plan, Organize, Write. Together we came up with a plan including possible topics. Then we further researched details to add to our writing and then next week we will complete our final copy! In Science we are learning about the moon and why the phases happen. In Social Studies we learned about Veterans Day and what being a "Veteran" means and the importance of them to our Country. Thank you Veterans!

Ms. Revaz's Second Grade Class

Last week, second graders began researching wild turkeys as part of our November learning! We’ve been exploring facts through PebbleGo and nonfiction books on Epic. Our skill focus is taking notes - learning how to write brief summaries of the most important information we read. Students are doing a great job identifying key details and organizing their ideas!

P.S. A big thank you to everyone who voted for our calf, Amelia!

Mr. Morris' Third Grade

Last week we read The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery and learned so many fascinating facts about turtles! We discovered that there are turtles all around the world—tortoises, terrapins, sea turtles, and freshwater turtles—and explored the special body parts that help them survive. We were amazed to learn about the many unique things different species can do. Next, we’ll be focusing in on the Eastern Painted Turtle and learning even more about our very own classroom turtles!

In math, we continued learning about the area of rectangles. We started measuring rectangles with rulers and multiplying the side lengths to find the area—no more counting squares! We also did a fun (and tricky!) hallway challenge where we were given only the area of a rectangle and had to construct it ourselves. It really made us think differently about shapes and measurement!

Ms. Del Rossi's Fourth Grade Class

A heartfelt thank-you to all the families who shared photos and sent in stars honoring the special veterans in your lives. Last week, fourth graders collaborated to create a beautiful flag and display to welcome AES veteran guests to the Veterans Day Breakfast held in their honor. We are so grateful to those who have served our country. Thank you for your dedication and sacrifice.

Library with Ms. Brett

We continued our Ladybug Book Awards and Mystery Readers. Last week we read Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden by Christy Mandin. The mystery reader was Mrs. Moenter. The mystery reader for Flat Cat was Mrs. Walsh’s daughter Maddie. First Friends began to learn about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Please remember to keep sending in those punch cards for Books for Bikes!

MuzArt with Mrs. Harvey

Kindergarten talked about steady beat and continued work on their Hand Leaf projects.

First and Second grade demonstrated how to write four beat rhythms during a scavenger hunt around the muzart room and created Poppy Field paintings for Veteran’s Day.

Third grade completed their Andy Warhol style Pop Artworks and demonstrated how to write melodies with a scavenger hunt in the Muzart room.

Fourth grade also completed a melody scavenger hunt and began work on their Dream House projects.

Pictures: Kindergarten discovery block: Buildings and Structures- we created fairy houses in the forest this week!

Classroom Lessons

Mrs. Sullivan's Class: We began Concept 3 - All The Zones Are Okay. Students learned the definition of PERSPECTIVE and SITUATION, played Four Corners to better understand perspective, and identified a variety of emotions that may arise in different situations.

Ms. Revaz's Class: We continued Concept 3 - All the Zones are Okay with another round of Four Corners where students identified which zone they would be in when in a variety of situations. Students then worked to identify common feelings and behaviors connected to them.

Mr. Morris's Class: We began Concept 3 - All The Zones Are Okay. Students learned the definition of PERSPECTIVE and SITUATION, played Four Corners to better understand perspective, and identified a variety of emotions that may arise in different situations.

Ms. Del Rossi's Class: We finished Concept 2 - Introduction to the Zones. Students played Twenty Questions in small groups to identify emotions then completed a Check for Learning handout to show what they've learned about the energy levels and strength of emotions in each zone.

Let's Talk - Helping Kids Notice How They Are Feeling

Teaching kids how to cope with their emotions is one of the best life skills you can give them. This is what we call emotion regulation, and you can start the moment they’re born! The ability to name and distinguish between different emotions is a core skill children start learning early in life.

As early as 6 months old, most children can distinguish between major emotions like anger, fear, sadness and happiness. They learn to read faces, tone of voice and body language, and can tell the difference between these emotional states in those around them.

As they get older, they learn there are more specific emotions, like frustration, joy and disgust. They can also learn there are more subtle versions of most emotions, like the difference between happiness, joy, contentment, elation and pride.

As kids start to develop language skills, it’s important we teach them the words to associate with these emotions. Helping a child build their emotional language gives them a better understanding of how to use words to express how they are feeling instead of using difficult behaviors.

Activities and Ideas to Help Children Understand Emotions

Name emotions. Normalize emotions and help children learn emotion words by saying how you are feeling out loud. For example, “I'm feeling so happy because I get to spend time with you,” or “I'm feeling frustrated because I dropped my glass of milk.” You can also help name emotions you notice in your child, like “It looks like you're feeling angry because I told you that you can't have a donut before dinner,” or “I can see you are feeling sad that your favorite teddy bear had to go in the wash.” Finally, you can also practice naming emotions when reading books or watching television as they get older. “Wow, she is crying- she must be really sad.”
Feelings charades. You can write the name of different emotions on pieces of paper, fold them up, and put them in a jar. Take turns pulling out an emotion and acting out the emotion while the rest of the family guesses what you’re feeling!
Emotion check-in. Download our emotion chart and create the habit of checking-in with your child on how they’re feeling. You can do this multiple times a day, for example before and after school or right before bed. This could lead to great conversations about what is on their mind.
Emotion thermometer. Another important part of learning to name emotions is understanding that there are different levels of intensity. Download our emotion thermometer to help guide this conversation for your child. For example, you can highlight how there is a difference in feeling annoyed versus furious! You can also use this download to check in with them, as needed

Talking about and naming emotions is something you can continue doing throughout a child’s development. To build on this skill and help them learn emotion regulation, you can start teaching them how their emotions feel in their body.

Adapted from The Kids Mental Health Foundation