
🚦 Welcome to Alphabet Avenue at Canaan Elementary School!
Our new Alphabet Avenue board is located in the school entryway, and we’ll be changing out the magnets throughout the year to keep learning fresh and fun! Right now, students are sorting magnets into nouns, adjectives, and verbs. What a fun way to build vocabulary and practice parts of speech as they come and go each day!
Our new Alphabet Avenue board is located in the school entryway, and we’ll be changing out the magnets throughout the year to keep learning fresh and fun! Right now, students are sorting magnets into nouns, adjectives, and verbs. What a fun way to build vocabulary and practice parts of speech as they come and go each day!


⚽💪 Teamwork makes the dream work at CES! 💙
When our students wanted to play soccer, they realized they needed soccer goals. Mrs. Whittemore suggested they might be able to move them, and the students didn’t hesitate to jump in and get the job done! 🙌
We love seeing our students take initiative, work together, and figure things out as a team. Sometimes the best lessons happen outside the classroom! 💙
When our students wanted to play soccer, they realized they needed soccer goals. Mrs. Whittemore suggested they might be able to move them, and the students didn’t hesitate to jump in and get the job done! 🙌
We love seeing our students take initiative, work together, and figure things out as a team. Sometimes the best lessons happen outside the classroom! 💙



🚒🔥 **Fire Safety Week at Canaan Elementary School!** 🔥🚒
We had a great week learning all about fire safety! Fire Chief Charlie Worcester kicked things off by visiting each classroom for a special fire safety read-aloud. Students also had the opportunity to practice navigating a smoke-filled home in the smoke house and take a walk to the fire station for a tour and a chance to climb inside a REAL fire truck! 🚒
A HUGE thank-you to Chief Charlie Worcester and the entire Canaan Fire Department for making this week happen and for all the hard work they do to keep our community safe. We appreciate you more than you know!
First responders ROCK!
We had a great week learning all about fire safety! Fire Chief Charlie Worcester kicked things off by visiting each classroom for a special fire safety read-aloud. Students also had the opportunity to practice navigating a smoke-filled home in the smoke house and take a walk to the fire station for a tour and a chance to climb inside a REAL fire truck! 🚒
A HUGE thank-you to Chief Charlie Worcester and the entire Canaan Fire Department for making this week happen and for all the hard work they do to keep our community safe. We appreciate you more than you know!
First responders ROCK!





CES Annual Trunk or Treat is Sunday, October 25th 1-2:30 pm. We could use a few more trunk to make this event successful. If you'd like to join us, call the office at (207) 474-3901.

CES Students are also welcome!

When the kindergarten fire crew shows up at your office window just to say hello… 😂
Apparently, I have my own personal fire department! ❤️🔥
Apparently, I have my own personal fire department! ❤️🔥

Our first Core Value Student of the Month pizza party! 🍕❤️
This month’s Core Value was Friendship, and this bunch definitely knows what it means to be a good friend! They were recognized for being kind, caring, helpful, and supportive of others. We are so proud of them!
This month’s Core Value was Friendship, and this bunch definitely knows what it means to be a good friend! They were recognized for being kind, caring, helpful, and supportive of others. We are so proud of them!

Please enjoy October's Canaan Elementary School News:
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Our students are getting creative with nature! 🍂🌼 They used things they found outside to create their own little works of art for their teachers. We love seeing their creativity, thoughtfulness, and imagination come to life!


Canaan Elementary School , our fundraiser starts in 5 days! Students should get a head start by registering at ShopFund.com using Group Code: NT4E7 to participate. Add at least 10 family & friends as contacts to unlock the Spin-to-Win game for a chance to win from over $125,000 in nationwide prize giveaways. Stay tuned for launch day! 🎉

Fluency practice in first grade!
Mrs. Bellerose’s students were hard at work during independent reading, reading books at their instructional level and practicing accurate, smooth, and expressive reading. Using whisper phones gives students the chance to hear themselves read, notice how their reading sounds, and build automaticity with words they’ve worked hard to decode. These little readers are putting in the work and growing every day! ❤️
Mrs. Bellerose’s students were hard at work during independent reading, reading books at their instructional level and practicing accurate, smooth, and expressive reading. Using whisper phones gives students the chance to hear themselves read, notice how their reading sounds, and build automaticity with words they’ve worked hard to decode. These little readers are putting in the work and growing every day! ❤️




💰 Maine Highlands FCU Pop-Up Branch is coming to CES!
Our Canaan Elementary Pop-Up Branch begins Tuesday, September 29, from 7:30–8:00 AM!
Students must have an established savings account to make a deposit. If your child does not have an account yet, you can set one up at the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union at 216 Main Street, Canaan.
We’re excited to help our students build great saving habits! 💙
Our Canaan Elementary Pop-Up Branch begins Tuesday, September 29, from 7:30–8:00 AM!
Students must have an established savings account to make a deposit. If your child does not have an account yet, you can set one up at the Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union at 216 Main Street, Canaan.
We’re excited to help our students build great saving habits! 💙

On Friday, we celebrated Bus Driver Appreciation Day! 🚌💙 Our students made cards for our amazing bus drivers, Dave, Larry, and Marcel and we gave them goodie bags filled with some of their favorite treats and a Dunkin’ gift card.
Everyone knows a good bus driver runs on coffee! ☕️😂 We are so thankful for all they do to safely get our students to and from school each day!
Everyone knows a good bus driver runs on coffee! ☕️😂 We are so thankful for all they do to safely get our students to and from school each day!



Chocolate-smeared faces and happy little bellies after enjoying chocolate chip muffins for breakfast! 🧁🍫❤️ Miss Lorrianne always make sure we start our school days with a good breakfast!



🐦 Learning in Second Grade! 🧮
Our second graders have been learning about animal classification in science. Today, they focused on what birds have in common and what makes them birds.
In math, they played a game called “How Close?” Students picked five single-digit cards and then had to choose three that would get them as close to 20 as possible without going over. There was A LOT of strategy involved!
We also worked on finding our “friends of 10” to help make adding three numbers together easier. It’s always more fun when we can sneak some math practice into a game! ❤️
Our second graders have been learning about animal classification in science. Today, they focused on what birds have in common and what makes them birds.
In math, they played a game called “How Close?” Students picked five single-digit cards and then had to choose three that would get them as close to 20 as possible without going over. There was A LOT of strategy involved!
We also worked on finding our “friends of 10” to help make adding three numbers together easier. It’s always more fun when we can sneak some math practice into a game! ❤️






🐾 CES Family Pet Highlight! 🐾
Meet Roger, Mrs. Whittemore’s cat! Roger loves to inspect her work, especially when it involves food! 😸🍳
Thanks for sharing Roger with us, Mrs. Whittemore! ❤️

Candy donations can be dropped off in the office. Call (207) 474-3901 if you or your business would like to sign up to do a trunk.

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🛝 So much fun happening at Canaan Elementary!💙
Our kids are loving the new (some new to us!) playground equipment and having a blast getting outside and playing together!
We also kicked off the year with our first assembly. It was a great way to come together, celebrate our school community, and start the year strong! 🎉🙌



