March
24, 2017
Dear Parents,
This
week we talked about spring and plants. We
began by discussing where we see plants - the different habitats that plants
grow in. Then we talked about the parts
of the plant and we did 2 experiments: one where we looked at how the roots
soak up the water in the ground and one where we saw how the stem sucks up
water to take to the other parts of the plant.
Then we discussed what plants need to grow and we planted our own bean
seeds. We will keep our plants at school
next week and watch them grow. We will
record the things we see in our plant journal.
We also worked on writing in story form.
We also finished this week
discussing the story Jack and the
Beanstalk. In math, we reviewed
covering pictures with pattern blocks, the different ways to make 10, and solid
and flat shapes. We worked on
decomposing the numbers 13, 14, and 15.
Next Week
Theme: Culture Word
Family: -ame, -ide, -ite,
Story: The Little Red Hen Nursery
Rhyme: My Black Hen
Reminders
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Be sure you have checked the culture sign-up to
bring in an item for our culture day celebration. Please let me know if you have any
questions. Food can be prepared from
home. We have one food allergy –
peanuts. Please be sure your dish does
not contain any nuts. We will have food
for students and adults that come.
However, remember we will have a variety of food, so even though you may
need for 40 people. You will only need
small portions. Food will need to be
brought in on that day around 11:45. We will begin lunch at 12:00. Then about 12:45/12:50, the students will
present about each country. We will go
to the gym after that for a short parade and for grades to present something
about one of their countries. Once this
is over we will be done. I know it may
make for a long afternoon, but it will be a good and fun learning experience
for the kids. I hope you can come and
join us.
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Your child’s assignment for their country needs
to be sent in on Tuesday. You can just
print the pictures out and clip them together and put your child’s name on
them. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
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Friday will also be the end of the month. We do not need Homework notebooks. April’s calendar is behind March. All you have to do is pull out March and it
is there. You do need to send in your
reading logs if you do not do it online.
Reading logs should be sent in by Monday April 3rd. Please put your child’s name on the log
before you send it in. This is the last
month for the pizza certificates, but you do have a log for April, so you can
continue reading.
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Please do not forget that the fieldtrip money
and forms are due on Thursday March 30th.
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I still have a few more pages to take and
develop pictures for on the kid’s memory books.
I am looking for anyone that is able to donate money or gift cards to
Walgreens to help finish these last pages.
I know many of you are unable to do this with the many things we have
going on already and I completely understand.
But if there are some of you that can help it would be greatly
appreciated. Any donation amount you can
contribute would be great.
·
Easter is coming up soon. Please don’t forget everyone needs to send in
$6 by March 28th.to cover lunch for that day. Also, send in at least a dozen prefilled
eggs. You can start sending your eggs on
anytime. All eggs should be in by
Tuesday April 4th.
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Congratulations to Ariana. She received the most donations out of the
whole school for jump rope for heart.
Way to go!!
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Congratulations to Gabby for receiving the
compassion value award this month.
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On Thursday, the second graders are having a wax
museum. This is where these students
dress up as a famous Americans. Then
when you put money in there cup they will tell you about themselves. We will go visit the wax museum that
afternoon. For students to be able to
have them speak they will need change.
There is no set amount. Any
amount is appreciated. The money they
raise will go to Lisa Brogdon, who is our speech teacher who was recently
diagnosed with cancer and just had surgery.
Please send your donations/change in a plastic Ziploc bag. You can either put your child’s name on the
bag or put the bag in the money envelope.
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Enrollment forms went home this week. They are due April 7th. A form needs to be filled out for every
child. You should fill out a form for every child you have. Please go ahead and fill them out and get
them turned in as soon as possible.
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Collection for the pop tabs ends April 1st,
so please send in any you have.
Dates
Monday March 27th: Return books for Book-In-Bag & Library
Books
Thursday March
30th: Send in change for the wax museum
Fieldtrip
money due
Friday March 31st:
Reverse Raffle
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft