Week of 5/12/08

Wow! I can't believe there are only 8 more school days! It is bittersweet! Summer is great, but your children are very special to me and I don't want to let them go. Last week was so busy, but wonderfully fun! The children were well behaved even with all the excitement! Our Leonardo's field trip was so much fun! It was enjoyable for the kids to meet their pen pals. Some of the kids really seemed to bond. Our auction was a huge success!! All the items were completely wiped out! It was so fun to watch the kids with a real auctioneer! Brady Lippard did an awesome job! This week will thankfully not be so busy. Here is what is on the agenda:

Reading - Literature circles
Math - Adding/Subtracting unlike denominators
Social Studies - The gold rush and the railroad
Science - Observation journals on double ecosystem, grassheads, and butterflies
English - Diamante poems

Hopefully we will get to go to Little Olympics on Wednesday for the third try! It does still have rain in the forecast. Let's hope they're wrong!!!

I need your help one last time. On the last day of school, we will have a Pizza/Icecream Sundae Party! I plan on buying the icecream and chipping in $10 for the pizza. Please help me with the rest of the cost. If each child could bring $1.50 and some of the children could donate an icecream topping of some sort, it would help tremendously! The other thing I would like to do is have a beachball signing. Please send the $1.50 and a beachball to school by Monday of next week.

If you can donate an icecream topping, please sign and cut off the bottom portion of this note. If you are reading this on the blog, please post a message instead. I will get back to you and with your child's help, assign you a topping.

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I can donate an icecream topping.
Parent's name _____________________
Child's name______________________