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                                                      Activities to help boost child’s skills:   Improving fine motor/motor planning skills Bear walks Crab walks Hop on one foot Hopscotch Twister Cutting Drawing/Painting/Writing at an easel Playdoh Using tweezers to pick up small items (beads, cereal, etc.) Playing card games Playing board games with small pieces to move Team sports Gymnastics   Improving…

In Everyday Mathematics (EDM) students are introduced to many different methods for addition. As they get older, they are introduced to addition algorithms. EDM introduces different methods for addition since some are well suited for mental arithmetic or larger numbers. Some are easier to learn, but not as efficient as others. EDM picks one algorithm…

For your convenience, our summer letter for the 2012-2013 school year is attached. Feel free to contact me for any further information! ..Summer & Beginning of Year2012 Summer Letter.docx ..Summer & Beginning of YearSummer Letter 2012.doc

Pearl Chagnon of Pittsfield celebrated her 90th birthday with the Pittsfield Elementary School staff on Monday, December 20.  Mrs. Chagnon worked as a school secretary and cafeteria worker from 1987 to 2007.  She regularly volunteers at the school.

Note: Author Katie Bass is a second-grade classroom teacher, who also serves as PES’s Responsive Classroom Lead Teacher. She taught grade four for her first four years at PES. In looking back at my five years here at Pittsfield Elementary, I can easily say that I have come a long way in my communication with parents….

Our teachers are beginning to use the newly purchased software to organize our curriculum units in a consistent fashion. The Atlas Curriculum Mapping software asks teachers at all grade levels: · to describe the New Hampshire standards related to, for instance, a science unit; · to outline the key understandings and the knowledge our district…