It's Conference Time!

**Paper copies of this form will be sent home on Wednesday**

Dear Families of Team Falcon,

How time flies! We're well into autumn, and it’s already time for our first round of Student Portfolio Conferences. Children benefit greatly from having meaningful conversations about their learning with important adults in their lives. To that end, we invite you to a Portfolio Conference where your child will present to you artifacts of his or her learning - work from each class that he or she has thoughtfully selected to demonstrate learning and growth. Any caring adult is welcome - parents, adult siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors. Conferences will take place in the Middle/Elementary School Library.

These conferences are important to your child, and represent many hours of hard work. The portfolio process helps students build life-long skills including: organization skills, self-evaluative skills, and communication skills. Most importantly, the portfolio process helps your child take more ownership of his or her learning and be more accountable for his or her academic progress. Thank you for the important role you play in this process!

Please visit http://bit.ly/teamfalconconferencesfall16 to indicate your preferred conference time, or return the form attached to this letter. Any caring adult is welcome - parents, adults siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors. If no adult is able to attend at one of the times offered, we will gladly make arrangements for you to conference with your child at another time. Conferences will take place in the Middle/Elementary School Library.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Teachers of Team Falcon: Jana Fabri-Sbardellati Megan Smith

Greer Krembs Gloria Crowe

James Moore Tami Koester

Catherine Thibault-Cote

Progress Reports and Permission Slips

Hello families of Team Falcon:

Monday afternoon, your student should have brought their progress reports home. We encourage you to review them with your students. There should be three progress reports: math, science, and humanities. 

Additionally, Team Falcon is attending a performance of Macbeth at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts on November 1. As part of the humanities unit, Myths, Legends, and Cultures, this is an exciting opportunity to see a live performance of a legend that continues to have great impact on cultures around the world. A permission slip was sent home with your student along with the progress reports. If you have any questions about this field trip, please contact James Moore (at jmoore@mymtsd-vt.org). 

Open House

We're looking forward to seeing you Thursday night between 5:30-7:00. We'll be in the Team Falcon classrooms doing four 10-minute rotations with a few minutes for passing time in between, starting at 5:30pm. We will also have printed materials available if you miss all or part of a presentation.

Please feel free to bring your child. The students can help walk you through some of the material we'll be covering.