Weekly Update: Lots of Important Information!

Hi Parents!  Happy Friday!

Thank you for coming to the Triple Play last night at Champe HS!  It is one of my favorite events of the year!  It's like grown-up play time and the kids get to watch!  

I have lots of important information for you today; please read this post to its end! (Apparently, I also have a problem with overuse of exclamation points today!)

Spring Picture Day:
Spring Picture Day is this Tuesday, March 28th.  A whole group (class) picture will be taken on Tuesday, and your child's individual picture will be taken on Tuesday too.  Please note these 2 very important points:

1. If you would like a class picture (this is the whole group photo), you must order and pay for it by Tuesday, March 28th.  I sent an order form home in yesterday's Thursday folder for the class picture.  You can fill out the order form, include payment, and return the payment envelope to school, or you can order and pay online.  If you order and pay online, you must return the payment envelope to school with the online payment confirmation code written on the envelope.  This means that by Tuesday, March 28th, you should return either the payment envelope with payment inside, or the payment envelope with the online payment confirmation code written on it.  If you do not order a class photo by Tuesday, March 28th, you will NOT receive one.  There is NO option to order a class photo at a later date. This becomes an issue every year.  Please, please....if you want a class photo, you MUST order it per the instructions I've just outlined.
2. Individual pictures will also be taken Tuesday, and you will receive a picture packet at a later date.  If you would like to purchase individual pictures, you will purchase those AFTER you receive the picture packet.

Flat Student Projects:

I sent a note home in yesterday's Thursday folder about our Flat Student projects. Please review this information and kindly return both stamps, and an address for someone to whom your child may mail his/her Flat Student.  :)

Coins for our Money Unit:

I sent a note home in yesterday's Thursday folder about our upcoming Money unit. We will start our money unit right after Spring Break, and I would like the students to have real coins to use during the unit. Please send a bag with 100 pennies, 10 dimes, 20 nickels, and 4 quarters to school by Thursday, April 6th.  Please label the bag with your child's name.  Coins will be returned at the end of the unit.

Yearbooks:
Pinebrook yearbooks are on sale now!  Yearbooks may only be purchased online.  To purchase a yearbook, go to ybpay.lifetouch.com and enter school code 7561117.  You will be prompted through the order and payment process.  

We Need Your Old Newspapers and Egg Cartons!
As part of our money unit, we will make piggy banks!  We need both newspapers and egg cartons for this fun project.  We will need some volunteers too!  (More details on volunteers later!)  For now, please send any old newspapers to school with your child.  Please also send egg cartons cut apart into the individual "egg cups" (we don't need the tops of the cartons).  Egg cups should look like this...

Thank you for your help with our piggy bank project!

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading:  We will practice drawing conclusions in stories we read.
• Writing:  We will finish our friendly letters unit as we prepare our Flat Student projects and focus on editing our writing for mechanics, punctuation, and proper sight word spelling.
• Math:  We will finish our Time unit.  We will practice telling time to the hour and half hour using both analog and digital clocks.  We will discuss the concepts of AM and PM and talk about how to read a schedule.
• Social Studies:  We will talk about the USA, its capital, its people, and its customs.

I know that's a lot of information.  Please reach out with questions, comments, or feedback.  Enjoy the weekend!