Weekly Update

Hi Everyone!

Happy Friday!  We watched a preview of Beauty and the Beast today, which is the play the John Champe HS Drama Department will be performing this spring.  The kids loved it.  We enjoyed some extra time in the warm sunshine too!  😎

Meantime, I have many important things to share with you today!

Spring Picture Day:
Spring Picture Day is this Monday, April 16th.  A whole group (class) picture will be taken on Monday, and your child's individual picture will be taken on Monday 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 Monday, April 16th.  I sent an order form home on Wednesday 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 Monday, April 16th, 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 Monday, April 16th, 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 Monday, 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.

Triple Play Rescheduled:
The Pinebrook Triple Play "Rumble in the Jungle" has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 26th at 5:45 pm at John Champe High School.  Please see your Pinebrook weekly email for more details!

Plastic Lid Goal Reached:
The 3rd grade classes have collected enough plastic lids to reach their project goal and are no longer accepting donations.  Please do not send any more plastic lids. You may recycle these at home.  Thank you!

Career Day:
Pinebrook will host a Career Day on the morning of Friday, April 27th.  We are in need of volunteers to share information about their occupations with students at Pinebrook.  If you can't be with us in person, you can Skype in!  Please consider volunteering by contacting our counselors, Jennifer Nocito (jennifer.nocito@lcps.org) and Heather Ross (heather.ross@lcps.org).

Baby Wipes Needed:
We have run out of baby wipes, which we use to clean our classroom.  If possible, please consider sending a pack of baby wipes to school with your child.  Thank you!

Camp STEAM-tacular:

This summer, Pinebrook will host Camp STEAM-tacular.  This is a fun-filled week of STEAM related learning and exploration, which takes place June 18th - 22nd from 9 am to 3 pm here at school.   Each grade level is aligned to a particular theme. Enrollment is limited and the camp will fill quickly!  You can learn more and register your child by visiting the Camp STEAM-tacular website HERE.

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 7561118.  You will be prompted through the order and payment process.  The deadline to order a yearbook is April 29th.  You must pre-order a yearbook if you would like your child to receive one.  

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading:  We will talk about characters and character traits in fiction stories.
• Writing:  We will begin our project based learning unit, and this will give us the opportunity to practice many different kinds of writing.  We will continue to focus on editing our writing for mechanics, punctuation, and proper sight word spelling.  We will also begin exploring poetry and poetry writing.
• Math:  We will continue our Time unit.  We will practice telling time to the hour and half hour.
• Social Studies:  We will begin a project based learning unit in which we think of ways to impact the environment by reducing the number of crayons that we throw away each year.  

Please reach out if you have questions, comments, or feedback.  

Have a great weekend!  It's finally going to be warm!