Points of P.R.I.D.E. Newsletter
October 31st, 2025
Dear FES Families and Community,
It was a wonderful end to the week with ghouls, goblins and more parading down the street today for our Halloween parade! Thank you to all the community and family members that could come and support the students. They all worked hard on costumes and everyone seemed to enjoy the event. A BIG thank you to the Francestown Police Department! They had two cars watching over the students and it made it such an exciting (and safe!) parade! Even the PD's mascot, Feona, was happy to visit school and wear her costume for the students to enjoy. Our day began with a treat, not a trick...The beautiful rainbow that hung over FES! Enjoy and have a safe and Happy HALLOWEEN!
A Bootiful Gift from our PTO!
Our amazing PTO had donated a pumpkin for each student to carve this Halloween Day. This morning the children arrived and went to a specific spot in the multi-purpose room where they could carve a pumpkin into a Jack-O-Lantern with the help of many volunteers. All the students had a wonderful time and seemed very successful, making cats, faces and even silly jokes into their pumpkins! The PTO was graciously taking them after they were completed to the town center, where they would be enjoyed by the whole Francestown community this Halloween Eve.
K-1 Class with Ms. Flanagan
This week we started learning about number stories. On Thursday students created their own number stories based on the picture they were given. Then they shared them with the class.
Ms. Parisi's Class Activities
This week in Ms. Parisi's class students started writing their final essays of the first module. In math, third graders are continuing to work with area with various square units and 4th graders are learning how to multiply fractions by a whole number. In science we are taking notes on animal classifications for an upcoming project.
Library/Media with Mrs. Donovan
This week we’ve read many of the picture books for this year’s Ladybug Picture Book Awards, a program of the NH State Library. When we’ve read them all, FES students will help choose the statewide winning book by voting on a special picture ballot.
The big excitement of the week was OLL on Wednesday. To get ready, we shared nonfiction books about leaves. Kara from the Harris Center and Mrs. Donovan helped students notice the parts of a book that would help us learn about leaves and other nonfiction topics.
Our OLL activity was finding an interesting leaf and trying to match it to the right kind of tree. We carefully did a crayon rubbing of the tree, and came back inside to do a leaf rubbing. These will be part of the FES Field Guide that all the students will be creating this year during OLL days.
We also looked closely at the shapes of leaves and their veins. We chose line drawings of different leaves, and used crayons and watercolor to make them look lifelike. We are planning to add this artwork to our Field Guide.
