• Chaperones for Tuesday please look for a pink note in your child’s homework folder 🙂
• GREEN Permission slips for our May 27th field trip to Kensington Metro Park came home today.
• Please make sure your child makes some progress with their reading activities.  They will meet with their reading “buddy” on Monday to discuss what they have accomplished so far.
•  Here are a few pictures from our “properties of matter” scoot game.  Plus, a few pics of us building 3D structures for math today 🙂

Have a great weekend!!

• PINK permission slips are due TOMORROW!  I will send home a note to the chaperones in tomorrow’s homework folder.
• Everyone now has a new chapter book for reading.  They also have a buddy with the same book.  All the activities should be completed by next Thursday.
• No school on Friday, May 23rd and Monday, May 26th.
• Our field trip to Kensington Metro Park will be on Tuesday, May 27th.  Permisssion slips will come home in tomorrow’s folder – this one is GREEN and should be returned by Tuesday.

• Everyone brought home a brown bag today.  They are to choose 1 object to put in the bag.  Tomorrow for science we will pass the bags around and practice describing the properties of the object (matter).  It can be anything (examples:  tennis ball, paperclip, rock, sandpaper), but I prefer that it not be food.
• We have a few more field trips coming up (one of them is next week).  If you are thinking about being a chaperone for one of these, please stop in the office and make sure you are on the approved volunteer list.  Only parents on the list are able to go with us.
• When the temperature gets warmer, our room gets warmer.  Students are encouraged to have a water bottle at school with them, but please make sure it has a lid.  The water bottles with the built in straws work the best because even if they get knocked over they don’t spill.
• The boy scout troop at Lindbergh is inviting Howard boys to join their pack in the fall.  If your son is interested in joining Boy Scout Pack 1116 at Lindbergh, there is a picnic on May 19th at 6 p.m. at Lindbergh to welcome you and answer any of your questions.
• TOMORROW IS LATE START!

Today’s “favorite things” gift basket was awesome…THANK YOU!!  I am so thankful for all the warm thoughts, cards, and flowers throughout the week, too 🙂  You guys are the best!

P.S.  We were very busy today getting Mother’s Day gifts and cards all set so our spelling test got pushed to Monday.

Happy Mother’s Day!

They said “best bellwork EVER!!”  LOL 🙂

• We had a very quiet day today due to many students taking DRA and SRI tests for reading.  I was very proud of all my test takers today – they were really focused and trying their best 🙂
• New spelling words came home today – there are no individual words since they already have 10 pattern words.
• Some students have Scholastic News homework – it depends on if they chose to complete it in class or not.
• This is the last week for cans and bottle collecting.  Please send in your returnables.  Howard students are working on having enough money to purchase a new tree.

• 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: