• Tomorrow is PJ’s and Pancakes 🙂  A note came home in today’s folder. Students should bring their pj’s and we will change after lunch.  Thank you to everyone who volunteered to send in items – we couldn’t have done this without you 🙂
• Jump Rope for Heart information came home today.
• New spelling words are posted.  We are still focusing on suffixes.  We did an activity together today, but they still need to complete 2 at home before Friday morning.
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS…Literacy Night is coming up on April 10th from 5:30-7:00 p.m.  Every Howard student that comes receives a free book!  There will be over 15 activities for your family to choose from 🙂
• A big THANK YOU to Saad’s mom for coming in and reading to us today!  We were fascinated with that shark book (and the video of Saad with the sharks) 🙂                                                                

• Monday is Tigers’ opening day…wear all your Tiger gear to show your support 🙂
• Tuesday is Pajamas and Pancakes!  Students should bring their pj’s in their backpack – we will change into them after lunch recess.  They may also have a blanket to spread out on while we watch a movie.  If anyone is willing to send in one or two of those yellow bottles of pancake mix (the ones where you just add the water to the container and shake), please comment on this post.  We will also need one bottle of syrup, plates, and forks.
• Tremendous THANK YOU’s to Mr. Murtada and Mrs. Giedeman for being our guest readers today – we were so happy to have you here 🙂

• Pancakes and pajamas is our classroom behavior reward.  This will take place next Tuesday (April 1).  We will change into our pajamas after lunch, eat pancakes, and watch a movie.  Students are able to bring a blanket to spread out and sit on.
• Today we had 2 guest readers!!!  THANK YOU to Mrs. Montierth and Mr. Salame for coming in and reading to us 🙂

We are so lucky to have a week packed full of guest readers!!  A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Lahay and Mrs. Chehimi for reading to us 🙂

• Huge Thanks to Hussien’s Mom and Ava’s Grandma for coming to read to  us this week!  We LOVE our guest readers 🙂
• Today was the last day of the cardmarking.  Report cards will come home around the middle of next week.  If we have a conference scheduled for next Thursday night, you will receive your child’s report card at the conference.
• I sent home notes to request conferences earlier in the week.  If you received one and haven’t returned it, please do so.
• Lots of pictures to check out from this week – I can’t seem to stop myself, lol – our guest readers, a few of Flashlight Friday today, a group shot I took before the concert Thursday night, some of Fraction Scoot during math, and a picture of Erik multi-tasking 😉                                                                                                                            (Thanks to Saad’s Mom for the pictures of the daytime concert!!)                                                                              

Tomorrow is our music concert. We will preform at 2:00 and at 7:00.  Parents are welcome to attend the 2:00 show – keep in mind that the gym will be packed with all the k-5 classrooms as well at that show.  For the evening concert you can drop your child off to me in the classroom at 6:45.  I will bring them back to the room and we will play games there until you come to pick them up after the entire concert ends.

We will visit the book fair tomorrow at 11:30 to purchase books.  The book fair will also be open in the evening before/after the concert if you would prefer to buy books then!

• GLUE STICKS…If you are out shopping this weekend and can grab us a few glue sticks, we would greatly appreciate it!
• We will visit the book fair on Monday to preview the books and then again on Thursday to buy our books.
• OUR MUSIC CONCERT is Thursday, March 20th.  We will preform at 2:00 for the school and then again at 7:00 p.m.  Today we had a rehearsal and we sounded great (of course)!!
• Silly Sock Day is Wednesday.
• Flashlight Friday is on the 21st.  Students can bring in a flashlight and we will turn off all the lights to read.
• In Social Studies we are learning about the different characteristics of our community.  We spent some time making posters to illustrate characteristics like transportation, places to play, buildings, natural features, and diversity.  Next week, we will focus on the ‘government’ and how they play a role in our community.
• THANK YOU to Mrs. Elgabri for being our guest reader today 🙂
• A few pictures of us this week:                           

• Tomorrow is late start!  Students will start their day at 9:30.
• We have a music concert coming up next week.  Your 2nd grade students will preform at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 20th.
• The book fair is also next week.  We visit the book fair on Monday to look at what they have and then return on Thursday to do our buying.
• HELP!  We are down to our last two glue sticks.  If anyone is willing and able to donate some, we would be very grateful!!
• SNACK…we eat snack every morning around 10:15ish.  I am noticing that many students do not have a snack, but are hungry at that time.  When I have leftovers from parties or other activities, I gladly share those with students who need a snack, but that is not very often.  If you are able to send a snack in for your child, please try to do that.  Snacks should not be junk food.  Fruit, yogurt, cheese sticks, carrots, crackers, and granola bars are some ideas for snacks.
• This was a pretty busy Tuesday.  We had some students from Dearborn High School visit us to talk about bullying, we worked with our kindergarten buddies, and in Math we started a new unit on fractions.   A few pictures:                                                                                                                                                     

• Reading minutes are due tomorrow.  The form was part of the packet that came home last Friday, but if you don’t have it, you can just use a piece of paper and write the student’s name, the number of minutes they read, and then sign it.  The goal for the week was 120 minutes, but even if your child didn’t reach that, I need the form back telling me how many minutes they did read.
• Spelling test tomorrow and spelling notebooks will be checked to make sure everyone completed their weekly activities.
• Science Quizzes are checked and graded.  Look for those in tomorrow’s folder 🙂
• Between spring pictures, an assembly, and language testing by Mrs. Mosallam, our day was pretty packed.  One of our reading groups got the night off because I just didn’t get to see them today, but everybody did bring home math homework.
• I was trying to take pictures of our class at the assembly, because they were all totally CRACKING UP during the whole thing…
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• Spring pictures are tomorrow.
• Tomorrow is also “keep a wild, but true, animal fact in your pocket” day.  Students may find a fact at home tonight and bring it with them tomorrow, or I told them that they could find their animal fact during bellwork in the morning using a book from the classroom.
• We went over the science homework today to clear up any confusion.  Students need to remember 4 things for the quiz:

1. Sources of water – examples:  wells, lakes, ponds, oceans, underground, rivers, spring
2. Uses of water – examples:  washing hands, cooking, watering plants, drinking, swimming
3. Properties of water as a solid – examples:  cold, slippery, smooth, cloudy, keeps shape
4. Properties of water as a liquid – examples:  changes shape, regular temperature, no smell, wet, clear