Weekly Update

Hi Parents,

Happy Friday!  Thank you for all the tissues!  Savey was back this week, and it was good for the kids to connect with him.  We celebrated Dr. Seuss all week. The Book Fair and Fine Arts Night were great family activities too! Time is clicking along, and the calendar is filling fast!  The kids are working to fill our Marble Jar and earn lunch with a movie in the classroom :)

Flat Student Projects:

I sent a note home in yesterday's Thursday folder about our Flat Student projects. Please review this information.  Please kindly return both stamps and an address for someone to whom your child may mail his/her Flat Student.  Please send these things by next Friday, March 15th.  Please let me know if you have any questions about this project.  :)

Pinebrook Triple Play:
Please join us!  Our annual Pinebrook Triple Play Sports Spectacular will be Thursday, March 21st in the gym at John Champe High School.  The Triple Play usually starts between 5:45 and 6:30 pm.  The whole staff plays games designed to make us look as silly as possible...think kickball, tricycle races, and dizzy bats! 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 both your Pinebrook weekly email and your child's Thursday folder for more information, including the specific start time and admission prices.

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 how good readers use context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words.  
• Writing:  We will practice opinion writing as we focus on editing our writing for mechanics, punctuation, and proper sight word spelling.
• Math:  We will begin our Place Value unit.  We will express numbers using 1's and 10's.  
• Social Studies:  We will continue our Maps unit.  We will explore cardinal directions,  map keys and map symbols, and construct a map of a familiar area.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Have a fantastic weekend!