Library Books are all due – we had our last check out last week.  All books are due by Tuesday 5/21.

Book bags and books due – all book bags and books are due by Wednesday 5/22.  There will be a  $5 charge for each book bag or book that is not returned.

Cultural Play lines – were passed out today.  Please have your child practice each day.  We would like to have the memorized by the day of the performance on 6/7.

African Research report and Google slides – We have been working on our African Research report for about a week.  Students should be finishing the notes and starting to write their draft.  Notes are due by Monday 5/20 and the first draft of the report will be due by next Thursday 5/23.  Please ask your student to show you their notes and first draft on Google Classroom.  If they are not finished with the notes then it is homework.  Next week the report will become homework if they don’t finish it in class.

No School – May 24th – 27th

Costume for the cultural play – due by Monday 5/20 – see below for details.

We will be making our own shirts to wear in the cultural play using glue and dye.  The final product will look something like this:

Please contribute $1.00 per student to buy dye for the class.

Students should provide a plain white T-shirt and a bottle of liquid glue.  The shirt should be large and loose-fitting, so buy one that is a few sizes too big.

You can find both of these things at most craft stores such as Michael’s or JOANN.

Both boys and girls should wear plain black shorts or pants with no stripes, logos, or writing.

Girls should wear a BROWN grass skirt with no flowers.  We will be making these in class out of paper bags, but you can also buy one if you choose.

Thank you!

Yearbooks have arrived

– if you did not purchase one before you can purchase them in the office for $10.

Planting tomorrow

– we have a few more plants to get in the ground we will be planting tomorrow afternoon.  Weather permitting.  Please dress for gardening.

Costumes for the African Cultural Play

– please don’t forget to send a plain white t-shirt (no writing), a bottle of glue, and $1 for us to make our costumes.  We will start making them next week.

Late Start –

Tomorrow is a late start – Please arrive at 9:35 AM.  Thanks.

African Cultural Play- June 7th 1:30 PM

We are currently working on writing the lines for the performance.  We will be assigning parts for all of the students this week.  We expect 100% participation.  If your child will not be able to attend for any reason peas let me know ASAP.  

Vacation Time

This year we have a break at the beginning of June.  If your family is planning on extending this vacation time and missing any school please let me know as soon as possible so that we can plan accordingly.  We do plan on sending home packets of summer work so that student do loose all of the progress they have made this school year.

Calendar –

Remember to check the calendar for important dates.  Here are a few upcoming events:

5/20 – 9 AM – Recorder, Drumming, Instrumental concert

5/24-5/27 – No school – Memorial day break

5/29- The musical THE JOURNEY OF THE NOBLE GNARBLE (Honors choir) will be performed in the Gym (Mike’s side) on May 29.

1:45 Center-based classes (a few parents)

2:40 Montessori classes (A few parents)

4:00 Parents and General Public

6/7 – 1:30 African Cultural Play

6/11 – Field Day – All day – times will be announced for each class later.

NWEA Testing tomorrow

Please make sure your child gets a plenty of rest tonight and eats a good breakfast tomorrow.  I was able to get a helper at the last minute today and we started our NWEA math testing.  It looks like we will also have help tomorrow so we will be doing our NWEA Reading testing tomorrow.  We will continue the rest of the NWEA tests next week.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone.  I hope you enjoyed the cards the kids made for you.  Thank you for all the flowers, cards, school supplies and the luncheon.  It was a wonderful  teacher appreciation week.

Thank you to everyone who helped out with the butterfly garden.  The whole school came out to help with the planting and we got it all in the garden with everyone’s help!  Great job everyone!  Here are the pictures I took:  Butterfly Garden Photos

NWEA – The NWEA starts this week.  Students can continue to practice their skill by doing MobyMax.  This should help increase the test scores.  Please make sure your child is well rested and eats a good breakfast for testing days.  I will be posting the testing days as soon as I know.

We will be taking a math test on Monday 5/13.

Here is the study guide:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1APHdULDTH0Alt8HySqT7hQCYxRJBzwZMzJVBFjDF5J0/edit?usp=sharing

If you can do it at home, that would be great, but otherwise we will do it in class.

We will be making our own shirts to wear in the cultural play using glue and dye.  The final product will look something like this:

Please contribute $1.00 per student to buy dye for the class.

Students should provide a plain white T-shirt and a bottle of liquid glue.  The shirt should be large and loose-fitting, so buy one that is a few sizes too big.

You can find both of these things at most craft stores such as Michael’s or JOANN.

Both boys and girls should wear plain black shorts or pants with no stripes, logos, or writing.

Girls should wear a BROWN grass skirt with no flowers.  We will be making these in class out of paper bags, but you can also buy one if you choose.

Thank you!

Due to the yucky weather, I am postponing the Butterfly Garden planting until this Friday, May 10th.

Planting day is tomorrow!  Please remind your students to dress in clothing suitable for gardening.  Also we could use some more shovels, trowels and gloves if students are able to bring them from home.  If we get rained out tomorrow, we will try again on Friday 5/10.  If you have not sign up to  volunteer here is the sign up sheet.  

We currently have no parent helpers for our time slot at 2:30-3:00.

From PTA –