Hello Parents,
What a fun time we had with Career Day. We listened to presentations from a football coach, a therapy dog handler, an interior designer, and a sheriff's officer. The kids showed ready, responsible, and respectful choices as they listened to our presenters. They asked interesting questions, and seemed to enjoy learning about different careers. Be sure to ask your child which career was a favorite. Many thanks to those of you who helped at our Career Day! :)
Spring Break Travel Notification:
Spring Break is coming! There is NO school for students from Friday, April 7th - Friday, April 14th. School resumes Monday, April 17th. If you plan to get an early start on travel, and your child will be absent in advance of Spring Break, please kindly notify both the office and me in advance. You may use the online absence notification found HERE. If you plan to pick up your child early on Thursday, April 6th, please use the online early dismissal notification found HERE. I will send home a Spring Break reading incentive next week.
Flat Student Projects:
What a fun time we had with Career Day. We listened to presentations from a football coach, a therapy dog handler, an interior designer, and a sheriff's officer. The kids showed ready, responsible, and respectful choices as they listened to our presenters. They asked interesting questions, and seemed to enjoy learning about different careers. Be sure to ask your child which career was a favorite. Many thanks to those of you who helped at our Career Day! :)
Spring Break Travel Notification:
Spring Break is coming! There is NO school for students from Friday, April 7th - Friday, April 14th. School resumes Monday, April 17th. If you plan to get an early start on travel, and your child will be absent in advance of Spring Break, please kindly notify both the office and me in advance. You may use the online absence notification found HERE. If you plan to pick up your child early on Thursday, April 6th, please use the online early dismissal notification found HERE. I will send home a Spring Break reading incentive next week.
Flat Student Projects:
I sent a note home in both yesterday's and last week'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. The deadline for returning stamps and an address is Tuesday, April 4th.
Coins for our Money Unit:
I sent a note home in last week'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.
No Written Homework Next Week:
I will not give the kids new sight words or a new Sound of the Week next week. We will complete some review and end-of-quarter activities in class.
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:
No Written Homework Next Week:
I will not give the kids new sight words or a new Sound of the Week next week. We will complete some review and end-of-quarter activities in class.
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 identifying the climax in stories we read. The climax is the pinnacle of the story. It's the most exciting part of the story, and usually happens toward the end of book, right before the story problem is resolved.
- 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. I thought we would finish this week, but I'm finding we need some extra practice with telling time to the half hour.
- Social Studies: We will finish our study of the USA, its capital, its people, and its customs.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Enjoy your weekend!
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