Cougar Chronicle
October 17, 2025
We want to give a HUGE shout out to Walter Opuszynski and Phil Matheson for cutting dead standing trees and making our ECO forest safer for students!! They took down the looming "Kid Crusher" tree that was enormous and hung up in another very high tree. We have new benches cut from the downed trees, cut sections of logs to work with and tree cookies! We are super grateful for their time and ability!
Thank you Walter and Phil!! 📣
10/27 - Field Trip to Hubbard Park (Everyone except PreK)
10/31 - Halloween Costume Walk
11/1 - 2025 Calais Halloween Spooktacular
11/3 - Field Trip to Hubbard Park (Everyone except PreK) RAIN DATE
1/4 - Parent Advisory Team Meeting
11/7 - Picture Day Retakes
11/13 - Friends of Calais Meeting
11/21- Coffee and Conversations with the Superintendent @ Rumney Memorial School
12/19 - Coffee and Conversations with the Superintendent @ Berlin Elementary
1/16 - Coffee and Conversations with the Superintendent @ Calais Elementary
Next week, she will be at Calais on Monday 10/20, Wednesday 10/22, and Friday 10/24.
Our students have been working hard on our school rules: We are safe, We are kind and We are here to Learn AND they are working towards earning an ALL SCHOOL CELEBRATION. We are planning a Fall Decoration Day... but we need your help in order to make this happen! We are in need of:
- Lots of pumpkins
- Pumpkin carving tools (safe for kids)
- Hay bales
- Adult Scarecrow clothes (will not be returned)
- Old sheets for ghosts
- PLAIN Brown paper leaf bags (to fill and decorate)
- Paper towel or toilet paper rolls
If you are able to donate any of these items, please sign up here. You can send things in with your child to be given to their teacher, or drop things off at the front office. We need donated items by Monday, October 29th.
With your help we can make this first celebration a fantastic, memorable event that was well earned!!
The students are close to earning their All School Celebration so we are planning to do this event on October 31, 2025. We are looking for volunteers who can help run the below stations:
- Pumpkin carving or painting
- Scarecrows
- Making ghosts (Dead balls, white sheets)
- Paper crafts decorations (skeleton pattern and paper tubes)
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form by October 21st!
We will be celebrating from 1:15pm-2:45pm that day so we are asking for volunteers to come at 1:00pm to help set up.
We are going an all school field trip/hike (with the exception of PreK, but we hope to go somewhere with them SOON) to Hubbard Park on October 27, 2025. Our rain date will be November 3, 2025. Please make sure to send in your child(ren)'s permission slip ASAP! Here is a link to the electronic copy that you can complete. If you would prefer that send you a paper copy, please let Danielle know!
Hi Calais Cougars!
Sorry, I forgot to write an interview!
Bye for now Calais Cougars.
Ms. Scoop
Next meeting - Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 5:30pm in the Library.
Friends of Calais is a volunteer-led organization, collaborating to design fun, engaging events and programs intended to foster closer bonds within the Calais community. Click here for more information and to see a list of all of their upcoming events!
Teamwork and Creativity for Children and Youth
https://www.destinationimagination.org/
We are hoping to start Destination Imagination teams for kids and teens this fall in Washington Central afterschool programs. This Challenge Experience is a fun way to do STEAM (STEM + Arts) projects and build social-emotional skills through teamwork.
Each group will do lots of creative activities, and collaborate on a project Challenge in one of these genres: Scientific, Technical, Engineering, Fine Arts, Improvisation, or Service Learning. Teams present their Challenge solutions in March at the State Tournament in Barre.
To make this happen for our students, we need adult Team Managers to supervise and facilitate team meetings once or twice a week after school. Vermont DI provides training, resources, and ongoing consultation. Are you interested? Please contact vtdicreativity@gmail.com
This is a HUGE weekend for soccer in Calais! All of our teams are playing in Jamborees this week. The games are in many different places and at many different times - so it will be a busy Saturday for our soccer players. Let’s wish them luck as the season nears the end.
Just Basics is partnering with Calais Elementary School along with The Humanity & Justice Calais Coalition to assist families in the Calais area with weekly food and household essentials.
Families who are interested may contact Caroline Munroe at Just Basics through her cell at: (802)917-8164 or by email at caroline@justbasicsvt.org or feel free to stop by Counselor’s Office or Main Office at Calais Elementary School or email Ruth Frisenda at rfrisenda@u32.org if you wish to complete intake form to receive items.
