Bobcat Bulletin
October 10, 2025
Greetings Moretown Families,
I want to start this week’s bulletin by thanking everyone who joined us for our Community Bike event and Open House last evening. We had a wonderful turnout, and it was such a joy to see students proudly share their work, classrooms, and school community with their caregivers. A special thank you goes out to our amazing staff who inspire students every day and find creative ways to celebrate their growth and learning.
Yesterday, MES welcomed 18 student volunteers, 2 teachers, and 2 community members as part of Harwood’s Harvest Festival and Day of Service. Volunteers spent the day helping around our campus—clearing brush from an ECO classroom space, tidying up the Story Walk trail with Chris Stephenson, hanging new Safety Zone signs with Mike Brown, and spending time supporting students in classrooms throughout the school.
Each year, the village of Moretown welcomes an eager crowd of trick-or-treaters! To support our neighbors who experience this extra excitement, we’re collecting donations of unopened bags of candy. Donations can be dropped off at school through Thursday, October 30th. Our afterschool students in the NOW program will then deliver them to village residents. Thank you for helping us spread a little sweetness in the community!
Speaking of Halloween, a quick reminder that costumes and props should stay home. While dressing up for trick-or-treating is lots of fun, it can be tough to focus on learning while dressed as Spiderman or a glittery unicorn—and we’d hate for costumes to get damaged before the big night! Thanks for helping us keep the focus on learning during the school day.
Finally, with teachers engaged in professional learning today, please remember there is no school on Monday, October 13th in observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We look forward to welcoming students back on Tuesday, October 14th.
Ms. Kate
- Halloween Porch Party! The PTO will be hosting an annual porch party during trick-or-treating hours on Friday, October 31st from 5:00-6:30pm. To be able to host this event, we're in need of volunteers to hand out candy - just 30 minutes. Please sign-up here.
- Seeking Halloween Candy - As in years past, the school is collecting bags of Halloween candy for trick-or-treating in the village on the 31st. Please bring your donation of candy to the school office by Thursday, October 30th.
- SAVE THE DATE - Artisans Sale - Saturday, December 6th - The annual Moretown Artisans Sale will take place at the school again this year, and the PTO will be running a raffle. Please save the date to come on by and shop for some amazing, locally-made items. And, the PTO is always in need of volunteers to sell raffle tickets during the sale's hours: 9am-3pm. Please email us at moretownpto@gmail.com if you'd like to donate an hour of your time that day.
- Congratulations to our first Calendar Days raffle winners!
- Oct 3 - April Harris (Liz Harris art)
- Oct 4 - Gretchen Maysek (Alchemist prize pack)
- Oct 5 - Leslie Polubinski (Hen of the Wood gift card + cookbooks from Bridgeside Books)
- Oct 6 - Caitlin MacLeod-Bluver (gift card and merch from The Local: Beer & Wine)
- Oct 7 - Brennan Liptak (Mad Taco gift card)
- Oct 8 - Alison Reeves (Liz Harris art)
- Oct 9 - Jimmy Moffett (Inklings Bookstore gift card)
- It's not too late to get your raffle tickets - they will be on sale until October 30th. Purchase 5 raffle tickets or more and be entered to win one of three grand prizes on October 31st. Buy your tickets at: https://moretownpto.betterworld.org/giveaways/moretown-school-fall-calendar-ra
- A big thank you to everyone who has supported this raffle so far!
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Moretown students are back to singing and playing in music class!
Kindergarteners explore a variety of readiness activities that will help them develop as singers, as keepers of the beat, and as musically creative people.
Our first and second grade musicians continue to focus on play-based singing and dancing while building on their early musical education. They start naming some of the musical concepts they have internalized and can already perform. We begin to sing with solfege (do, re, mi, etc.), we learn to recognize and read rhythm patterns, we play instruments, and we expand our repertoire of creative movement ideas.
Third through sixth graders begin building a deeper degree of musical skill and understanding. We are engaging with music through a variety of activities that will challenge, expand, and develop skills with creativity, singing, dance, music literacy, and theoretical learning. During these years they learn to sing harmony with canons, rounds, and partner songs. They learn to improvise, and they will compose and arrange their own music. They learn to play the ukulele and recorder. The two groups, 3/4 and 5/6, will part ways as the year progresses and the older students cover more ground.
Please check for periodic posts on the music blog featuring students from all four MRV elementary schools at madrivervalleymusic.blogspot.com
Best Wishes,
Jeremy Hill
- Make-up Picture Day, November 6
- NO SCHOOL- Staff Development, November 10
- Parent Teacher Conferences, November (more information to come)
- NO SCHOOL- November 24-28
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Phone: 802-496-3742
Location: 940 Route 100B, Moretown, VT