Week 32: April 4, 2011
Thank you to everyone who brought in reams of paper to assist in our paper shortage. Because of your donation, as well as Avery Day's family bringing in 14 reams...our class has earned the free dress day and pizza party at school on our first day back from spring break...April 4th. It would be extra special if a few families wanted to donate a veggie tray, some fruit, and perhaps a little dessert. I have juice boxes in the room as well as I will take up a count and personally purchase milk for them on this day.
If you want to donate any of these extra food suggestions, please feel free to call me at home so I can organize this. My number is (303) 498-0740. My husband and I will be in Florida from Thursday, March 31st till Sunday, April 3rd finalizing my father's affairs. Please leave a message of what you want to bring and I will get back with you on Sunday night. Thanks for your participation in our celebration.
Again, everyone in my classroom has a free dress day on Monday, April 4th.
Some students are forgetting to bring in their homework and/or their decodeable reading book on a day to day basis. Please help by reminding them to double check their backpack to make sure they have everything they need to be prepared for school. Practice makes perfect so its best the children continue to practice being organized and responsible.
Information on a family tree project is coming home Monday, April 4th. This project is not due until Wednesday, April 20th. An oral presentation accompanies this project.
We will be looking for parent and/or grandparent volunteers to assist in our annual "Ellis Island Immigration Day" that we do with the sixth graders. This activity is tentatively set up for the week of April 11th -15th. Information will be coming home in your child's Friday folder. We would love to see you there.
Week 31: March 21, 2011
HAPPY SPRING!!! Both report cards and the spring fundraiser pertaining to your child's original artwork came home in the Friday folder last week. Please let me know if you have any questions and would like to order from the new spring artwork fundraiser.
One more week of hard work and striving to do our best before we enter into Spring Break. We are studying The Civil War in Core, counting back change with money in math, reviewing a fictional book in writing, drawing conclusions, main ideas and supporting details in our reading unit on courage. Finally, in spelling we are studying prefixes, suffixes and the proper way to use quotation marks in dialog speech.
