I wish you all a happy, safe spring break!!

I didn’t send home any homework for over break, but hopefully you can squeeze in some reading – maybe on Raz-kids?  Students have also been introduced to MyOn by Mr. Neff.  This site seems to have lots of high interest books that kids can listen to and take a quiz on – similar to Raz-kids.  They use their student # (which most of them have memorized) and their birthdate (mmddyyyy) to log in.

Zoo Field Trip – Since the zoo trip is the 2nd day we come back (Tuesday the 14th), I just wanted to remind you that students will need a bag lunch that day. Also, please make sure that your child dresses for comfort and to fit with the weather that day. If you are a chaperone, you may want to have a backpack with you to help carry lunches.  Chaperones should meet in the classroom at 9:15 so that we can go over stuff, but then you will drive yourselves to the zoo and meet us by the front gates.

• Tomorrow is the last day for field trip money!!!!  We will have to pay the zoo over break, so please make sure you send in the permission slip and money!
• Since we won’t be here on opening day next week, tomorrow is Tiger’s Day.  Let’s dress in our Tiger gear!!!
• Library check-out was today, but if you forgot your books, bring them tomorrow.  I will find a time to send them to check-out.
• Math test tomorrow.  We went over the review today and they have it in their red folder.  The test looks exactly like it with different numbers.
• We had another guest reader yesterday and she was great!  Mrs. Hammoud read us the classic Corduroy.  A big THANKS to her for coming in to read!

was pretty awesome!!  We had 2 super visits from guest readers – huge thank-yous to Mrs. Elhassan and Mr. Mosallam for stopping in and reading to us.  We also had a great time during our flashlight read-in!!!  We made our school reading goal so we munched on s’mores while we read 🙂 ( notes for next week:  no spelling words, no school Friday so we will do library check-out on Wednesday)

Here are some pictures from today…

• Report cards came home today and so did spring pictures 🙂
• Tomorrow: 1. flashlight read-in (small blanket, flashlight, and books from home can be brought in) 2.  Reading minutes are due!!!  3. spelling test  4. library check-out
• Thank you for all the donations to make s’mores tomorrow – I have a feeling we are going to have enough reading minutes to enjoy them!!
• No school on Friday, April 3rd.  Spring break, April 6-10.  Back to school on April 13th!
• I am going to try to use the days before break next week for testing.  If your child is not bringing home their reading bag next week, they should still be reading!!!  You could always have them log-in to RAZ-Kids and read 🙂
• Yesterday and today brought us more awesome guest readers.  A huge thank you to Mrs. Bower and Mr. Dwyer for coming in and sharing those stories!!!

• My guess is that report cards will come home Thursday.  If we have a conference scheduled, I will hold on to the report card until we meet.
• Friday is our flash-light read in.  Students may bring a flashlight, small blanket, and some books from home if they would like.  We will also hopefully have our s’mores – keep track of those reading minutes 🙂
• Coming up:  On Tuesday, April 14th, we will have a field trip to the zoo!!  Permission slips will come home on Friday and be due back by April 2nd.  The cost per student is $5.25.  The cost per chaperone will be $5.00.  There is no limit to chaperones for this trip since you will be driving to the zoo and meeting us there.  Students will ride the bus.
• We had a SUPER visit with our guest reader yesterday.  Thanks so much to Mr. Galvan for reading us a story about Policeman Lou, helping us remember our safety tips, and even letting us try to lift that heavy police vest you wear everyday.  It was a great start to our week 🙂

• Spelling words for next week will be compound words:  football, everybody, grandmother, bedroom, downstairs, anything, playground, someone, sunshine, something  (no individual words)
• We did a great job this week with our reading minutes!  Almost everyone returned their sheet.  As a class we read over 5,000 minutes!!!  The school is 56,000 minutes away from our S’more goal of 200,000.  We need to KEEP READING!!  I am going to prepare for Friday as if we are going to make it, so we will need some donations of graham crackers, Hershey chocolate bars and the Kraft Jet-puffed Marshmallow creme. If you are willing to donate, please sign-up by following this link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FA5A929ABF85-smores
• We had an awesome visit today from Ms. Wright who helped us make some volcanoes erupt!  (All the materials were kid-friendly)

• Reading minutes are due!  Last week only 17 out of 27 kids turned in minutes 🙁
• Spelling test and red spelling notebooks will be checked.
• Library check-out – please make sure your child has their library books.
• Coming up:  Friday, 3/27 will be our flashlight read-in.  Students will be able to bring in a flashlight and small blanket/sleeping bag.

Today we had another awesome visit from a guest reader!!  Thanks to Mrs. Glodich for reading us two super cute stories 🙂

We have really enjoyed our guest readers this week.  Thank You to Ms. Makki, Mrs. Galvan, and

Mrs. Chami for stopping by and treating us to some really cute stories 🙂

• It was great to see everyone who was able to make it last night.  I hope the kids had fun 🙂
• Spelling words for next week:  oil     hoist      joy     royal      broil
• Everyone should have brought home a Unit 7 Math review (it actually says pretest at the top).  Please go through this with your child as a way to practice the math skills before their test.  The test will be Monday.
• We love our guest readers!!  We really enjoyed our visits from Mr. Beuckelaere on Thursday and from Mrs. Dwyer this morning 🙂 Thank you to both of them for stopping in to read for us.

• Tonight at home, help your child brainstorm a list of 5 activities you might do while you are camping.  Have them carry the list in their pocket at school tomorrow for a chance to win a prize.
• Literacy Night is tomorrow night from 5:30-7:00.  We hope to see you there!!
• THANK YOU to Mrs. Gabrish for being our guest reader today!!  We talked her into reading us two stories 🙂