Ms. Truxall’s class will be previewing the fair on Tuesday, March 8 and we will shop on Wednesday, March 9. Please send money on the 9th if you’d like your child to purchase books.

The 2nd graders will be going on a field trip with Ms. Polster.  She will be taking all the 2nd graders including Mrs. Keebler’s 2nd graders to the Dearborn Historical Museum.  Ther, they will talk about the history of Dearborn, make butter, tour a historical home and find out what it was like to be a student in the Pioneer Days.  Sounds fun!  This is a Dearborn sponsored field trip and only 2nd is allowed to attend.  The 1st will stay with me.:> The trip is Thursday, March 17 from 9-11:45.  Cost=$5.  Chaperones are needed.  Form will be sent  home tomorrow!  Thanks.  P.S. Return forms and money by Monday, March 14.

We have lots of fun activities planned this month for reading.  One of them is to have guest readers read to our class.  If you would like to volunteer to be a guest reader, please let me know.  Days and times available are Wednesdays and Thursdays all month of March until the 24th.  You may sign up for 2:45-3:00 on either of these days.  If your child wants to,  let him or her help you pick out a book or two to read.  Please keep books to a 15 minute limit.  Any longer and the wiggles begin. Please no treats for the kids.  Your reading is the treat!  Thanks so much.  Send me an email!!

2nd Grade Math Group will have a test on Monday.  Practice tests were sent home this past Wednesday.  Happy studying!

February 23, 2016

Dear Parents and Guardians;

Next month is March is Reading Month and we at Howe school have many activities planned to celebrate and encourage more reading by our students.  One of the activities we have planned is a raffle for reading baskets.  Each class will be putting together a book basket for the month of March. The baskets can contain reading books, puzzle books and any items related to reading.  The book baskets will be raffled off on Thursday, March 24th. The cost of the tickets will be 4 for $1.00. The funds made during this will be used to create a memorial in our courtyard in honor of Mrs. Haddix and Mrs. Mazorowicz.

Please send in your donations to your child’s teacher by Friday, March 18^th.  The baskets will be displayed in the main hallway of Howe starting on Monday, March 21^st and your child can start purchasing tickets for the baskets on that date.

Thank you so much for your participation with this event and for your continued encouragement of your child to read.

The Howe Staff

Tomorrow is the final day to order yearbooks!

Report Cards are being sent home today.  NWEA Scores will be sent home on Monday.  Thanks

Green Team update –

The Green Team has used $110 of the money that we earned from our used book and bake sale to adopt 2 Endangered animals the lion and the wolverine.  You can see the adoption certificates in the hall by the showcase.  Our lion adoption kit arrived today!  He will be passed around to all the classes and then put in the showcase with our other adopted animals.  We should be getting the wolverine soon.

The Green Team has been working hard on a Use Less Waste Less campaign for the school.  We have used $80 of the money that we earned to purchase plastic/metal recycling bins for the classrooms and common areas of the school.  We will now be recycling plastics and metal and we need families to help by occasionally bringing some recycling home.  The Green Team members will be interviewing the kitchen staff to discuss ways to help the students waste less food.   We will now be recycling paper, newspaper/magazines, cardboard, plastic, metal cans and printer cartilages.

The Green Team is also helping the animals on our campus.  We made bird feeders out of recycled water bottles and hung them on Nature Area fence.

We are right now having a contest for the Wayne County Green School Logo Contest.  The entries are on the Green Team board.  All the classes will be voting for their  favorite.

Our next meeting we will be discussing Michigan’s watershed and discussing ways that we can help support the situation in Flint and the Rouge river.  We will be writing letters to government officials to support legislation to clean up Michigan’s fresh water.

We are asking parents to try to help us by packing a waste less lunch.  We challenge you to try to pack a lunch where NOTHING is thrown away.

Here are some suggestions:

• Instead of a juice box get a small refillable bottle for juice.
• Instead of a plastic sandwich bag get a reusable sandwich box
• Instead of a paper lunch bag get a reusable lunch bag
• Instead of individual bags of chips get a big bag of chips and put a small amount in a reusable container.
• Instead of throwing away plastic spoons and forks wash them and use them again or buy metal ones they can use again
• Instead of a paper napkin use a cloth napkin.

Thanks for all your help in making us a Green School!

Book orders are coming home.  Everyone go a 2nd grade one because I don’t have any 1st.  Please make checks payable to Scholastic Reading Club.  Do not send cash.  Orders due 2/11