• Next week’s spelling words:   clown     growl     round     crown     loud
• Late start on Wednesday, 3/11.
• LITERACY NIGHT is on Thursday, 3/12, from 5:30-7:00.  Howard teachers have planned some awesome activities – I hope to see everyone there!!!! You can get here about 5:15 to check-in.  All students must be accompanied by an adult.
• GREAT JOB to all of the students who made their 120 minute reading goal!!!  They earned a sticker for their tent and a raffle ticket for lunch with Mrs. Burch.  I am missing a few ‘week 1’ papers.  Even if your child did not reach the 120 minute goal for our classroom, please send in the amount of minutes that they did read.  The school also has a goal of 200,000 minutes – if we reach that we are rewarded with S’mores 🙂  Your ‘week 2’ paper starts today!!
• Our buddy activity this week went along with our outdoor theme – we made bird feeders 🙂  Hopefully yours made it home in tact so that you can hang it outside for your bird friends.

Just a quick reminder that the “week 1” reading minutes are due on Friday!! I apologize for any confusion – I mentioned at the concert they were due tomorrow, but I was a day ahead of myself.   Everyone will hopefully reach 120 minutes this week so they can add a forest animal to their tent and be entered into a drawing for lunch with Mrs. Burch.

Tomorrow is “put a list in your pocket” day.  This week they should have a list of 5 things they need to take if they go camping.

We will visit the book fair tomorrow to purchase books.

and finally…

Thank you so much for supporting your students in our evening concert.  They were super!!

• Our concert is tomorrow!!!  The students will perform for parents at 7:00 p.m.  Please plan to bring your child back to school tomorrow night and drop them off in our classroom about 6:45 p.m.  After they sing, I will bring them back to our classroom to play games until you pick them up when the concert is over.
• Everyone has science homework tonight (2-sided) and a few students have some leftover math from today.
• We visited the book fair today and made wish lists.  We will go back on Thursday to purchase. The book fair will also be open before and after the concert tomorrow night.
• Math tests have been graded and entered into gradebook for you to look at.
• The PBS reward for February is a game day.  Students who had less than 6 yellows, no blue, and no red will be able to participate.  We will have our game day on Friday afternoon for about the last hour of the day.  If your child would like to bring a game from home to play, please make sure it has their name on it.  (No electronics)
• The PBS reward for March will be ice cream.  In order to participate, students cannot have more than 4 yellows.