Weekly Update

Hi Everyone! 

Happy Friday!  5 long days, but 5 fun days.  We had a Den Rally yesterday.  We discovered our love of mystery novels this week.  We learned about context clues, and built numbers using ones, tens, and hundreds. The leprechauns ended our week by making mischief in our classroom.  :)

Flat Student Projects:

I sent a note home in last week's Thursday folder about our Flat Student projects. Please review this information.  At this point, you should have returned both stamps and an address for someone to whom your child may mail his/her Flat Student.  If you haven't done this, please send these items to school as soon as possible.  Please let me know if you have any questions about this project.  :)

Pinebrook Triple Play:
Please join us!  Our annual Pinebrook Triple Play will be next Thursday, March 21st in the gym at John Champe High School.  The Triple Play usually starts between 5:45 and 6:30 pm.  The Pinebrook teachers and staff play games that are designed to make us look as silly as possible...think kickball, tricycle races, and dizzy bats!  The event starts with teacher bowling.  There will be food and snacks for sale, raffles, and other fun things. The 1st graders lead the singing of the National Anthem before the games begin. Please watch The Puma Paw weekly email for more information.

Yearbooks:
Pinebrook yearbooks are on sale now!  Please see yesterday's Thursday folder for additional information. Yearbooks may only be purchased online.  To purchase a yearbook, go to ybpay.lifetouch.com and enter school code 7561119.  You will be prompted through the order and payment process.  The deadline to order a yearbook is April 28th.  You must pre-order a yearbook if you would like your child to receive one.  

Camp STEAM-tacular:
Camp STEAM-tacular is coming to Pinebrook this summer.  The following is an announcement from the Camp STEAM-tacular team:

"Join Pinebrook Elementary this summer for Camp STEAM-tacular! This is an especially fun week for the kids where they have the opportunity to be creative by exploring hands-on critical thinking activities involving science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).  Each grade level is focused around a common theme!  We begin each day with grade levels working together to complete a different STEAM related activity and the afternoon is focused on a grade-level themed challenge! We are excited to have all of you join us for this week of excitement and exploration! Camp STEAM-tacular takes place from June 17th-June 21st. Check out our website below to sign-up!"

https://sites.google.com/lcps.org/camp-steam-tacular/home

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading:  We will talk about the author's message in fiction stories. We will ask:  What does the author want us to learn from the characters?
• Writing:  We will continue our opinion writing unit as we focus on editing our writing for mechanics, punctuation, and proper sight word spelling.
• Math:  We will finish our place value unit.  We will practice writing numbers in their expanded forms.
• Social Studies:  We will finish our Maps unit.  We will construct a map of a familiar area, and begin to ready our Flat Students for their adventures.  

I hope you have a fun weekend!  We have had a non-stop week in our house.  I am looking forward to some downtime.  :)