It has been an exciting year for Coding in the Learning Center this year! All grade levels participated in a few different types of coding which enabled them to push themselves and persevere through challenges and we had a bit of fun along the way too!

Kindergarten did some "unplugged" coding which involved learning the principles of coding without a device. They also learned to program the BeeBot robots and completed coding challenges on an iPad App called Kodable.

First graders excelled in their second year of using the iPad App called Kodable. They also extended their skills and problem solving skills by coding the BeeBot robots to do more complicated tasks and challenges.

Second graders used an iPad App called Lightbot Jr where they had to program a robot through a series of challenges that progressively got more difficult. They also got to be a little more creative with a program  new to us this year called Scratch Jr. This program will serve as a stepping stone for the coding they will do next year as third graders as well as when they move on to Fleming school.

The third graders got the privilege to code with the Ozobot robots that use colors as code. This coding required a lot of fine motor skill and attention to detail. They then also got to be a bit more creative in their coding by learning the program called Scratch. This experience will set them up to jump right in next year at Fleming school when they will go deeper and learn more coding with the Scratch program and some Dash robots.

It is so nice to see all the smiling faces back in the building! Classes will visit the Learning Center for their regularly scheduled class on Mondays and Fridays again this year.

Mondays: Cole, Lee, Jacowitz, Mahoney, Manz, Hamilton

Fridays: Dall, Jacobs, Emond, Murtha, Lines, Poncelet

The library is open to students every day and they can come down to return, renew, or check out new books anytime their teacher gives them permission. 

 Please make a plan with your family for where you will keep library books at home in order to keep them safe from damage as well as a place that you will remember to collect them each week to return them to school. 

We are so excited to welcome students back to Summit Street School! We've been busy cleaning and organizing the library so that we will be ready to checkout books next week. 

If you have books at home from last year or from the summer, please send them back as soon as possible so that we can get them back on the shelves and available for the next student to check out. 

We hope everyone has a great summer and we also hope that our students will participate in our Candyland Summer Board Game Reading Activity!

Access a copy of the Candyland Summer Reading Board Game HERE and join your child in a summer filled with fun and reading. Return the complete game board to school in the fall. 

Summit Street has many opportunities for students to access books & digital resources for reading over the summer months.

- Each student currently in grades K-2 will bring home a bag with a few borrowed books to read. Keep them all summer or return them on any Wednesday morning.

- Students in grades K-2 can come to the school with a parent/ caregiver on Wednesday mornings from 7:45- 9:30, to checkout books from the school library. 

- All students in all grades have access to digital resources that can be located on the left hand side of this page.

- The Brownell Library will be holding a summer reading program with a plethora of activities and events for students to attend. Click here for more information. Library cards are free for all residents.

- On two Wednesdays this summer, June 29 and July 27, Ms Wright, the school librarian, will bring bags of books to Maple Street Park for students to borrow. 

Click here for a resource on ways to encourage your child to read and suggestions for helping your child read at home.

Summit Street students read all 10 Red Clover books and voted for their favorite. The winning book for our school is The Barnabus Project by the Fan Brothers.

Our votes have been submitted to the state and now we are just waiting to hear which book is the overall winner! Stay tuned!

Have you tried this fun word game yet? Wordle is a web-based puzzle that requires players to guess a valid five-letter word in six tries or less. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word.

Here are some links to some fun Wordles to try:

https://mywordle.me/?word=nsrg 

https://mywordle.me/?word=xcfnd 

All grade levels recently completed lessons on computer programming, which we call coding. We do this in December to line up with Computer Science Education Week, which was the first week of December. If your child enjoyed these lessons and activities and wants to learn or do more, please visit code.org for more activities and resources.

It's hard to believe that we've been in school over 7 weeks now! Students have been checking out books since the second week of school and it's great to see all the exciting book choices they are making.

Unfortunately, we have seen an increase this year in books being damaged. We've had 5 that have been damaged by liquid and 1 that was damaged by a pet. Please review the book care expectations with your student to ensure that we have a marvelous selection of books for years to come!

It is so nice to have everyone back in the building! Classes will visit the Learning Center for their regularly scheduled class on Mondays and Fridays.

Mondays: Cole, Jacowitz, Mahoney, Manz, Hamilton, Poncelet

Fridays: Dall, Lee, Jacobs, Emond, Murtha, Lines

The library is open to students every day and they can come down to return, renew, or check out new books anytime their teacher gives them permission. 

Students have already started checking out books. Please make a plan with your family for where you will keep library books at home in order to keep them safe from damage as well as a place that you will remember to collect them each week to return them to school. 

At this point in the year, Kindergarteners and 1st graders are checking out 1 book at a time. 2nd and 3rd graders can take out up to 3 at a time. As we build our library stamina and create a habit of returning books on time, we will increase those numbers. Library books are due 8 days after checkout, but can always be renewed for longer as long no one else is waiting on that book.

April is poetry month! The rhythm, word play, and creativity in poetry books for kids make them the perfect companion to language acquisition and developing literacy skills. Click HERE  to check out this list of 50 great poetry books for kids.