Raymond C. LaPerche Elementary School

Care about the Earth and keeping it clean?? Join the Smithfield Department of Public Works and Smithfield Conservation Commission for a community clean up. The event will kick off at 9:00 at Deerfield Park on Saturday, April 27.

Smithfield High School students visited LaPerche as mystery readers during Reading Week! Thank you to this awesome group of young women. The LaPerche students have excellent role models to look up to! Take a close look at the group shot. Can you see who is photo bombing??

LaPerche is turning 50 and you are invited to come and celebrate with us!

The 2019 Variety Show will be held on Friday, May 10 @ 5:30 pm at LaPerche School and your child is invited to perform! The Variety Show is an opportunity for students to showcase their talents. Students from all grades are welcome to participate. Past acts have included dancing, singing, musical instruments, acting, story/poem reading, comedy, acrobatic, magic and more. We are always looking for new talent so any creative idea is welcome. Acts may be up to 2 minutes in length. We welcome group acts and solo acts and there will even be a group dance routine for all who wish to participate. Students are welcome to perform in one solo and one group act as well as the big routine at the end. For additional information please visit this link and sign your child up for the show! https://my.cheddarup.com/c/varietyshow2019 The deadline to sign up to perform is Sunday, March 31. For all questions about the Variety Show, please reach out to Nicole Campbell at ncampbell6@cox.net or 401 523 5706

During writing time in Miss Martino's third grade, students became the teachers! Given some sample work, students worked in teams to comment on and score different written responses. The students provided impressive critical feedback. Together, they came up with a list of criteria for level 4, 3, and 2 work. Now that students had a better understanding of the criteria, students were given the opportunity to improve an old written response about Ben Franklin! The results were outstanding!

Fifth Grade movie night at LaPerche last night was a time to build friendships that will last for a lifetime! Thank you to all the parents who helped put the event on.

Mrs. Hegarty’s second graders celebrated Dr Seuss’s birthday by reading his book Batholemew and the Oobleck and then investigating this mysterious substance called oobleck. Is it a solid? Is it a liquid? Ask your second grader?

During fitness week at LaPerche, students were challenged by the 5 levels of the box jump. Students had to jump with two feet and land fully on the box increasing from one level up to five. Students spotted each other while offering words of encouragement as classmates moved from level 1 to 5. Fitness is an important focus at LaPerche as we develop the whole child; mind and body!

Students lead the class everyday in Mrs. Friel's kindergarten class. When student lead, they demonstrate understanding of the routines and are role models for their classmates. Here students lead the fundations lesson, the weather song and write the daily math equation to match the question of the day. Students also become comfortable public speaking, an important life skill.

Students in kindergarten, first and second grade came together in the library to read The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. They showed the characters emotions as each reacted to the ladybug. Can tell which one is surprised, frightened, amazed, annoyed?

Lessons are based on Essential Questions that teachers want students to be able to answer. The essential question in Mr. Medeiros' math class last week was, How are fractions and decimals related? After the students read the question together, they had time to think and record notes onto white boards to explain their thinking. When hearing the Maitre D' Party of 2 Responsive Classroom signal, students moved into groups of two to share and then examine their partners ideas. Understanding is deepened when students learn from and explain to peers.

Ms. Feeley’s class learned about Dr. Seuss and enjoyed reading many of his books including Green Eggs and Ham. After reading Green Eggs and Ham they completed a fun math and art activity and made their own green eggs and ham.

Recess Rocks PD has brought new games to LaPerche! In PE last week, third and fourth graders came together to learn some new games including Band Aid tag. One problem with many tag games is that as students get excited the tagging can turn into pushing. In this game, our hands turn into butterflies that tag on the shoulder and back only and feel just as a butterfly would feel. Here students practice tagging each other in a safe and fun way. Interactive modeling, where students see it and then get a chance to try it, is the best way to explicitly teach.

Center time in Mrs. Hayward’s Class! Students work in centers on their individual goals. This is differentiation at its best!

At LaPerche, fifth grade students spend time outside of school strengthening friendships before they head off to middle school! Last night, our fifth graders went snow tubing! Lots of fun and endless exercise!

The youngest students at LaPerche, our kindergarten friends, take on leadership roles. In Mrs. Friel’s class, students take turns being the captain of their teams. The captains set the tables for writers workshop by getting writing folders and workshop tools organized. Then, they call the team from the rug and everyone gets writing!

During math in third grade today, students discussed the difference between area and perimeter, practiced finding both, compared their answers to their partners and completed an independent quick check to check for understanding! It was a great day!

LaPerche fifth graders were outstanding at the first annual 5th Grade Recital Night!

The 50th Anniversary Celebration of LaPerche Elementary School is coming up on Thursday, April 11 from 5:30-7:30 and all are invited! Each grade level is taking on a special project to celebrate the 50 years! Our current fourth grade students would like to interview former LaPerche students to learn all about life at LaPerche during the last 50 years. Are you a former LaPerche student? The fourth graders would like to invite you to an in person interview on Friday, March 8 at 2:00. If you are a former student and would love to be a part of this amazing project, please complete this form. https://goo.gl/forms/vPWITdvsej2YMong2 If you know other former students, please forward this post to them so they can sign up to be interviewed! Thank you! Thank you for your help spreading the word! Feel free to reach out to principal Julie Dorsey @ jdorsey@smithfield-ps.org with any questions. Thank you!

In Miss Martino's third grade classroom, students made Kindness Wreaths! On Valentine’s Day, they read Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch and figured out that the theme was if you are kind to someone else, they will be kind back to you! We discussed how our words are so powerful! Each student then created a “kindness wreath.” Students wrote a kind word about their classmates on a heart and passed them out. In the end, all students were left with a wreath that contained multiple compliments about them! Spread kindness by complimenting someone today!