Troy Tiger News
October 2026
Dear Families,
As I look outside and see leaves falling and pumpkins on porches, it is clear that fall has arrived! The weather is changing and it is hard to believe that we have been in school for over a month! Time certainly does fly!!
This week, across the School District, classrooms will begin taking the iReady Diagnostic Assessment. This assessment provides our teachers with valuable information about each student’s current strengths and areas that need to be worked on. The results help classroom teachers better understand individual learning needs, plan instruction, and provide appropriate academic support throughout the school year. It also provides an opportunity for personalized lessons based on your child’s individual results. i-Ready lessons are utilized at school and can also be utilized for extra practice at home at any time.
We appreciate your help in making sure your student is prepared to do their best. Please encourage your student to:
• Get a good night’s sleep before each testing day.
• Eat a healthy breakfast at home or at school.
• Take their time and give their best effort. The goal is for the results to accurately reflect what they know and are ready to learn next.
We want students to approach i-Ready with a positive mindset. This is not a test they need to study for, and it is not about earning a particular grade. We simply ask students to take their time, stay focused, and give their best effort so that we have the most accurate information possible to support their learning.
Thank you for helping us set our students up for success and for your continued partnership in supporting our students.
We look forward to meeting everyone for Parent-Teacher Conferences later this week. Please contact your child’s teacher if you have not received confirmation of dates or times.
We are having a great year! Here’s to continued success for our students.
Best,
Kevin W. Stone, Ed. D., Principal
Hello,
As we welcome fall weather and the days become cooler please be mindful of dressing your student appropriately for the cooler mornings and slightly warmer afternoons.
If you are questioning when to keep your student(s) home from school, here are a few things to keep in mind when deciding. As always, please feel free to call with any questions.
Fever- Parents must keep their children home with a fever 100 degrees or higher. Students must be fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication before returning to school. If a child develops a fever over 100 degrees at school, parents will be called and must arrange to pick the student up from school.
Strep throat- If a child is diagnosed with strep throat, students must be on antibiotics for 24 hours before returning to school, as well as be fever free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medications. If your child is seen in the nurse's office with symptoms of strep throat, parents will be called as well.
Vomiting- Please keep children home until they are vomit free for 24 hours. If a child vomits while at school, parents will be called to take the student home.
Diarrhea- Keep your child home if they are having diarrhea more than once. If it occurs at school, they may be sent home as well.
Rash- If your child has an unexplained rash, your child should be seen by a medical provider to rule out any contagious diseases/illnesses before coming back to school.
Frequent symptoms- Sometimes children pretend or exaggerate illness in order to stay home. However, frequent complaints of tummy aches, headaches and other symptoms may be a physical sign that a child is feeling emotionally stressed, a common experience even in children. Consult a medical provider to evaluate symptoms. Stress-based complaints cause some children to unnecessarily miss a great deal of school. It is important to check often with your children about how things are going. Share concerns with school staff so they can provide support for you and your child to help make attending school a positive experience.
If your child becomes ill at school, please have plans/backup plans to have them picked up within 30 minutes as we do not want to hold ill students without exposing others to illness as well as ill students will feel best when resting at home.
As always please feel free to contact the health office at 603-242-6570 or send me an email to rgreer@mrsd.org for any questions or concerns.
Richelle Greer Troy School Nurse
Grade 6
Throughout the past few weeks, 6th grade has been working hard! In math, we have been working on finding the area of different shapes. We have worked with parallelograms, triangles, and general polygons. Students have learned different strategies to decompose, rearrange, and compose new shapes to find area, along with using different formulas. In October, we will be moving on to surface area and three dimensional shapes. In Arts & Letters, we have been learning about the Great Depression through imagery using the book Picturing a Nation. Students have been practicing using descriptive detail and sensory language through writing captions, they have practiced writing introductions for narratives creating silly stories, and worked on their summarizing skills with various passages. We recently began reading the book Bud not Buddy and will continue it throughout this month. Along with that, 6th grade has been learning more about our school's ROAR pillars. We have spent the past few weeks talking about owning our community, always persevering, and being responsible.
Grade 5
We had a very busy September in 5th grade! From focusing on all four of our ROAR pillars, to One School One Book, to getting used to teaching and learning on the stage, we have done a lot. In ELA, we have been learning about the Nez Perce tribe and the impact of western expansion on their culture in the late 1800's. We will begin reading a story called "The Birchbark House", by Louise Erdrich which connects well to our topic of study. In Math, we are finishing up our multiplication/division unit and will be moving into volume shortly. For Social Studies, the kids have put together Google slideshows about Jamestown, VA and Plymouth, MA to present to each other. Soon, in Science, we will be studying the Earth's water cycle and its impact on life. Finally, I'd like to congratulate Tyler Malynowski on being our first monthly raffle winner. Enjoy that Domino's Tyler!
Grade 4
"Throughout September, 4th graders have been busy reviewing skills, learning new skills, getting routines down, starting their homework routine, and learning to work as a team. In ELA, we finished our first read aloud book (The Wild Robot), and started our second class read aloud (The Wild Robot Escapes). We've also gotten settled into our independent reading and writing routines. In math, we've reviewed addition and subtraction with and without regrouping and have begun daily fluency practice in memorizing our math facts. We have enjoyed reviewing the pillars of ROAR and reminding ourselves what it means to be a Troy Tiger. Lots more fun to come in the month of October!"
Grade 3
Happy October! Fall is such a wonderful season to welcome. We have been keeping very busy in the classroom. As you know, we’ve spent time learning about the Constitution and the three Branches of Government. Over the next two weeks, we will be taking a close look at some of the American Symbols: Mount Rushmore, Liberty Bell, Lincoln Memorial, and the Washington Monument.
The Arts & Letters curriculum has us exploring the sea by studying art work, poems, literature, and our first story: Amos & Boris, by William Steig. Each lesson presents us with new vocabulary, and the students are doing a wonderful job learning how to use a glossary.
A Glimpse of the Past Two Weeks!
We’ve Read:
The Three Questions - By: Jon J Muth
Strong to the Hoop - By: John Coy
But It’s Not My Fault - By: Julia Cook
Equal Shmequal - By: Virginia Kroll
The Day You Begin - By: Jacqueline Woodson
Math:
Two and Three Digit - Addition & Subtraction with regrouping
We’ve reviewed the algorithms, and completed a Pre-Unit assessment.
We are working on the MULTIPLICATION FACTS 0 - 5!
95% - Phonics:
Sound-Spelling Mapping, Parts of Speech (Verb, Noun, Adjective, & Adverb), and Suffixes
Grade 2
Hello Troy School community! September was a busy and exciting month of learning for our second graders! In reading, we have been learning about the seasons and how seasonal changes affect both nature and people. We read the poem September and practiced reading it with fluency. We also studied a piece of artwork called Bathers at Asnières and discussed what we noticed, wondered, and thought about as we looked more closely at the painting. In math, we have been practicing addition within 50 and subtraction within 20. We have also just begun learning about graphs and data. So far, we have studied picture graphs and bar graphs and practiced both reading and creating them. We have had many opportunities to create graphs together as a class, analyze the data, and compare our results. We are excited to continue exploring how graphs can help us organize, understand, and communicate information!
Grade 1
In first grade we are well into discovering what makes books important. Through discussions, poems, art, and books we are learning that books are way more than something to learn from! First graders have also been learning to write and read grade level words with short vowels a and i. We even took our first spelling test! In math we have jumped into story problems and are determining what is missing, a part or whole. This can be very tricky. Ms.Hart, our student teacher, has been taking over some of our morning routines and we are feeling so lucky to have her. Happy Fall everyone.
-Mrs.Burroughs & Ms.Hart
Kindergarten
In Kindergarten we have just about wrapped up our alphabet bootcamp. Students have enjoyed working in centers based around the letter of the day. We have continued to work hard during 95% group lessons and have practiced the letters t, p, n and a. Students have been working so hard to form the letters the correct way! Students have also been introduced to concepts of print such as front cover, back cover, spine, title, author, illustrator and title page. In Arts and Letters we have wrapped up exploring "Nature's Treasures" and are now exploring My Five Senses by Aliki. In Math we have finished unit one where students got to explore different math tools. In Unit two students will learn about the numbers 1-10. Students were very excited to explore our new play kitchen and sensory bins over the last couple of days. We are continuing to get to know more about each other and build our classroom family.
