I can't believe this is the last post of this school year! Time really does fly! So glad we had such a great family turnout this past Friday. Your kids were anxious all day about it! It meant a lot that you came. :) Well this week, I will basically be babysitting! Ha! We will be doing a variety of things from Haircut Day on our grassheads, making memory books, and spending time with our kindergarten buddies to watching a movie, cleaning the classroom, and having Grizzly Day! It should be a fun last week of school! As I stated before, I will miss your sweet babies. I wish them many blessings and lots of happiness!
Tuesday will be our auction! The children have been working towards this day all year. Some of them have managed to save a lot of money, and some not so much, but everyone will get something! :) Many of the children were debt free which met they were able to buy their desks and not pay rent which enabled them to save more each month. A couple even managed to buy someone else's desk! Some children saved more each month because they didn't purchase much at the class store. I also gave bonus bucks for test scores that were a C or better. I gave bonus money to those children that went above and beyond what was required as well. Accelerated Reading earned $1 per AR point. Briley came in first in AR with a whopping 657 points, so she will get $657! Wow Briley! Congratulations! Roy came in second with 262 points! Good Job Roy! Cooper came in third with 188, Shelby O. with 186 and Sydney with 165! Super work Cooper, Shelby and Sydney! I had over half the class earn over 100 AR points this year! I am so proud of all my kiddos though because all of them either met our class reading goal or the individual goal I set for them! Another way to earn bonus bucks was to do spelling enrichment and participate in the Brainiac Club. In spelling enrichment, Jack takes 1st place with 182 points! He will earn $182! Awesome Jack! Ellie takes 2nd with 169 points and Kayla takes 3rd with 149 points! Super job Ellie and Kayla! Brennan, Shelby O. and Roy participated as well and will be earning bonus bucks too! I'm proud of you! As for the Brainiac Club, Jaycee takes top honor with completing 24 mini assignments! I am giving double bonus points for the Brainiac Club, so Jaycee will earn $48! You rock Jaycee! Other participants were Jack, Shelby O., Ellie, Lexi, Cooper, Ben and Sydney! Good job kids for going above and beyond what was expected!
Wednesday will be the school awards assembly. Awards will be given out by the librarian for AR, the P.E. teachers for Little Olympics, and the music teacher for Tri-State.
Thursday(weather permitting) will be Grizzly Day, so be sure and send your child to school in play clothes and shoes.
Friday will be a Game and Feed. Your child can bring a game to school (electronic is allowed too) as well as a snack and drink. That's about all. :) Have a terrific summer!! I will see you next year!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Week of May 9th
This will be a crazy, busy week, but a fun one!!
Reading - Historical Fiction
Spelling - List 23 on spellingcity.com List 23.5 is enriched
English - Parts of speech review and editing sentences
Math - Long Division (2 digit divisors), Math review, and Algebra
Science - Plants
Social Studies - State research in computer lab
Art - Marble Mazes (We were too busy last week to get to this!)
Things to remember:
Little Olympics field trip - Monday morning (buses leave at 8:05) (kids can bring money for concession)
Leonardo's field trip - Wednesday - remember to pay your $5 admission fee (sponsors are $5 as well) Buses will leave Glenwood at about 9:45 and return around 2:30. Sponsors can ride with us or meet us at Leonardo's.
State Floats are due Thursday.
Family Day is this Friday at 1:30. It should last around 30 minutes. Please try to come. It is very important to your child. You will enjoy it! :)
Reading - Historical Fiction
Spelling - List 23 on spellingcity.com List 23.5 is enriched
English - Parts of speech review and editing sentences
Math - Long Division (2 digit divisors), Math review, and Algebra
Science - Plants
Social Studies - State research in computer lab
Art - Marble Mazes (We were too busy last week to get to this!)
Things to remember:
Little Olympics field trip - Monday morning (buses leave at 8:05) (kids can bring money for concession)
Leonardo's field trip - Wednesday - remember to pay your $5 admission fee (sponsors are $5 as well) Buses will leave Glenwood at about 9:45 and return around 2:30. Sponsors can ride with us or meet us at Leonardo's.
State Floats are due Thursday.
Family Day is this Friday at 1:30. It should last around 30 minutes. Please try to come. It is very important to your child. You will enjoy it! :)
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Week of May 2nd
Hello Families! Here is this week's happenings:
Reading - We will begin partner historical fiction books this week.
Spelling - List 22 on spellingcity.com (ight,ought, and aught words) Enriched - List 22.5
Math - We will be revisiting long division this week with a jump into 2 digit divisors. We will also continue do do morning math review of previously learned skills.
Social Studies - Great News! Everyone passed their online 50 state location test with 100%!!! I'm so proud of them! This week, I will send home directions for the state float project and will post a link to some pictures of last year's floats. All the children have chosen a state now to research. We will also be doing a couple of projects on states in the computer lab.
Science - We will finish up our unit on geology this week. We will also learn more about our butterflies, write in our observation journals and do a plant project.
English - This week we will finish up our last two poems for our poetry folder and choose our favorite for our PowerPoint presentation. We will also continue to work on parts of speech, punctuation and capitalization.
*Don't forget that the Egg Drop containers are due on Friday. Mr. Starks has graciously volunteered his time and bucket truck to drop the containers! It will be such a fun event!
*Thank you to those that have donated an auction item or have signed up to donate an item! I GREATLY APPRECIATE it! You can send your donation anytime. The auction is coming up in about 2 weeks.
We still need 2 more Leonardo's volunteers for our field trip. I know it's a busy time of year and many of your work, so I TOTALLY understand. We are just kind of in a crunch because we have to have 1 adult per 5 children to go. I know many of you are trying or have tried to work something out in order to come! Thanks for trying!!
We will be doing a cool project on Friday. We will be constructing marble mazes. I will provide white index cards for the children, but many of the children have expressed interest in making a colorful marble maze like some of my former students have made. If your child wants to make a colorful marble maze, you can find a pkg. of 100 fluorescent index cards at Walmart for $1.88. One package will be plenty. This purchase is of course optional. I know sometimes you get a different story at home.....like the fact that they HAD to have a motorcycle for their Mouse House. I told them that was OPTIONAL too. A couple of my sweet kiddos, I know, told their parents they had to have it. :0 Children! If you only knew the stories I hear at school! Ha ha! I will believe half of what I hear if you will do the same! Hee hee!
*Don't forget to look at the A to Z Countdown Calendar for this week's topics! :)
Reading - We will begin partner historical fiction books this week.
Spelling - List 22 on spellingcity.com (ight,ought, and aught words) Enriched - List 22.5
Math - We will be revisiting long division this week with a jump into 2 digit divisors. We will also continue do do morning math review of previously learned skills.
Social Studies - Great News! Everyone passed their online 50 state location test with 100%!!! I'm so proud of them! This week, I will send home directions for the state float project and will post a link to some pictures of last year's floats. All the children have chosen a state now to research. We will also be doing a couple of projects on states in the computer lab.
Science - We will finish up our unit on geology this week. We will also learn more about our butterflies, write in our observation journals and do a plant project.
English - This week we will finish up our last two poems for our poetry folder and choose our favorite for our PowerPoint presentation. We will also continue to work on parts of speech, punctuation and capitalization.
*Don't forget that the Egg Drop containers are due on Friday. Mr. Starks has graciously volunteered his time and bucket truck to drop the containers! It will be such a fun event!
*Thank you to those that have donated an auction item or have signed up to donate an item! I GREATLY APPRECIATE it! You can send your donation anytime. The auction is coming up in about 2 weeks.
We still need 2 more Leonardo's volunteers for our field trip. I know it's a busy time of year and many of your work, so I TOTALLY understand. We are just kind of in a crunch because we have to have 1 adult per 5 children to go. I know many of you are trying or have tried to work something out in order to come! Thanks for trying!!
We will be doing a cool project on Friday. We will be constructing marble mazes. I will provide white index cards for the children, but many of the children have expressed interest in making a colorful marble maze like some of my former students have made. If your child wants to make a colorful marble maze, you can find a pkg. of 100 fluorescent index cards at Walmart for $1.88. One package will be plenty. This purchase is of course optional. I know sometimes you get a different story at home.....like the fact that they HAD to have a motorcycle for their Mouse House. I told them that was OPTIONAL too. A couple of my sweet kiddos, I know, told their parents they had to have it. :0 Children! If you only knew the stories I hear at school! Ha ha! I will believe half of what I hear if you will do the same! Hee hee!
*Don't forget to look at the A to Z Countdown Calendar for this week's topics! :)
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