• April reading calendars can be returned starting tomorrow.  Students who read more than 400 minutes in both April and then again in May – and turn in their calendars for both months – will get to participate in a pizza party.
• Math homework tonight!  Students should only complete the top half of the worksheet (just the addition).  We will do the bottom half on a different day.
• The Tigers PBiS reward today went great!  Here are a few pics 🙂

The pbis reward is tomorrow!! Students can wear their Tiger gear and bring a junky snack and drink. Everyone with 4 or less yellows will hang out and watch the game from about 2:30-3:00.

It was awesome to get back and see everyone!  I was jealous of some of those tans the kids brought back with them 😉  We got right back into the swing of things with no problems.

Math homework tonight practices area and perimeter.  We did the first one together.  They should have written at the top of their paper that:

area = the number of squares inside the shape

perimeter = the distance around the outside of the shape.

Reading groups are being done a little differently this week due to the start of my testing.  Many of the reading groups have chapter books.  Last night their job was to summarize.  Tonight, their job is to draw a picture that relates to the reading and write a sentence that explains it.  They will meet to discuss their pictures on Thursday.

This Wednesday is the school PBIS reward.  Students who have 4 or less yellows will be able to participate.  We will spend part of the afternoon watching the Tigers game on TV and eating a “junky” snack (students should bring this from home).  Any students who have 5 yellows or more will be with Mr. Denison during that time of the day.

We had a great day!  Enjoy spring break!!

Here are a few (smokey) pictures of the firehouse:

• We are all very excited to go to the fire safety house tomorrow.  The kids keep asking me about snack and lunch.  We will only be gone for about an hour tomorrow, so I reminded them that most of the day will be filled with normal things.  We will still do Daily 5, eat snack, have a normal lunch rountine, and go to Art.
• Spelling test is also tomorrow!  We looked up the words in the dictionary on Monday, but everyone must have 2 other activities done in their red spelling notebook for tomorrow morning.  If they don’t have their red notebook at home tonight and they need to finish, have them work on lined paper.  The words are posted on the spelling page of the blog.
• No school on Friday, April 18th.   I will see everyone back on Monday, April 28th.
• KEEP READING over break!  Many of them got chapter books from the library today so they would have “more to read”, lol, but they can read whatever they want next week.  The first week back I will be starting reading assessments.

• Field trip information came home today.  Please sign and return on Monday.
• Next week’s spelling words are posted on the spelling page.  Since it is a short week, each student will only have the 7 pattern words to practice.
• Please continue to send in your returnable cans and bottles.
• I submitted the Scholastic book order today…keep your fingers crossed and we might get it before break 😉

Thanks so much to everyone who attended Literacy Night tonight !! I hope you had a great time 🙂

Don’t forget you can send in your returnable cans and bottles tomorrow!! We will collect them next week also.

Field trip information will come home tomorrow. Please return signed permission slips (there are actually 2 different forms to sign) on Monday!

Tomorrow night (Thursday) is our Literacy Night from 5:30-7:00.  Howard teachers have planned some awesome activities – I hope to see everyone there!!!!  I am not giving any homework tomorrow night 🙂  You can get here about 5:15 to check-in.  All students must be accompanied by an adult.

Other upcoming events:

Please have book orders returned by Friday so I can submit the order.

We have a field trip coming up next Thursday to the Dearborn Fire Safety House.  Permission slips will come home on Friday.  Please return them on Monday.

No school on Friday, April 18th.

Spring Break:  April 21-25.  Back to school on Monday, April 28th!

• Social Studies Quiz next week on Tuesday.  Everybody should have 2 sheets in their folder that they can use to study.  The quiz will focus on 3 questions:  What is government?  Why do we have government?  What are some services provided by the government?
• Social Studies next week will focus on the question, “Who is in the government?”
• The reading calendar for April came home this week.  Every student who turns in a calendar with 400 minutes or more for April AND again in May will participate in a pizza party.
• LITERACY NIGHT is coming up this Thursday, April 10th from 5:30-7:00 p.m.  Check-in starts at about 5:15.  Each Howard student who attends will get a free book.  There will be about 15 literacy activities going on throughout the evening that students can visit – making bookmarks, creating cootie catchers, slime time, jeopardy, book walk, BINGO, and more…
• We have a field trip to the fire house coming up on April 17th.  Look for more information to come home at the end of next week.
• Howard’s City Beautiful group is doing a can/bottle drive again this year to raise money for flowers and new trees that can be planted around the school.    You can start sending in 10 cent returnable cans/bottles on Monday.  Please rinse them out first.  We  turn them over to the committee on Fridays, so if you want to wait and send them in on Friday, that would be great!
• Pajamas and Pancakes was a HUGE success 🙂  Thanks again for the donations to make it possible!!  Thanks also to Mrs. Elsersy for coming in to help flip and for creating super cute smiley faces out of chocolate chips.
• Here are a few pictures of buddies this week and our pj celebration…