Dear Parents and Guardians, As in our previous ConnectED message and flyer sent home, once again this year we are asking in lieu of giving gifts to the Freeman Centennial staff, that you give your donations in an envelope to your child’s homeroom teacher by Friday, December 2nd.  We are working closely with the Santa Foundation and have adopted four families in need.  With your generous donations it will enable the staff to fulfill the requests of the families, which have been...

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Physical Education classes will continue to go outside during the month of November, whenever the weather is reasonably warm and the fields are dry. Students will participate in Capture the Flag and Hawks and Squirrels, two very active and challenging games. Once the students are inside for the winter they will be covering the different components of health related fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility and body mass index. Most of the students have...

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Grade 3 students are learning to read music notation and learning to play new notes on their recorders. They will be playing their first song on their recorders this month! Grade 4 students will be studying the four families of the instruments of the symphony orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion). They will be learning to visually and aurally identify these instruments. Grade 5 students will be learning about sound, which is a form of energy. The students have recently studied...

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As the art program moves into November, student art projects for each grade level will support the curriculum content areas within the classroom. During the next few months, sixth grade students will be creating a Latin American Folk Art Print, which is based on Mexican serapes and images from Latin American Folk Art. They will then work on Australian Aborigines Dreaming Cultural art work. Fourth and fifth grade students will create a landscape or animal using appropriate shapes (polygon, hexagon,...

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Dear Parents/Guardians & Students, The end of October has brought excitement and snow to many families throughout New England. We have set new records for the amount of snow fallen in October. I hope that if we have winter weather so early that the winter onths are snow free. The last day of school for students s now Thursday, June 14, 2012. Our 6th grade students had the opportunity to travel nd stay at Camp Bournedale for one week. Wow! This is n unbelievable chance for all students to...

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Greetings from the Freeman Centennial School! Thanks to all of you who came out last night in the inclement weather to attend Curriculum Night.  I was very impressed by the number of people who attended and the quality of the questions.  It was great to see so many people who are willing to partner with the school to make our curriculum more enriching.  I look forward to more of these types of forums. A teacher gave me a copy of a great article from the Wall Street Journal entitled...

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