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NEWSFLASH: Wednesday, 31 March, Class Pictures at 9:15 a.m.-Come w/your smile!
Our upside-down week wasn't so bad! We were a supportive class to the 3rd-5th grade students who tested every morning from 8:20-11:00. We had our specials in the morning and did a great job working hard. I had to turn down the talking and get back on task with learning throughout all periods of the day. We are working continually on staying on task, utilizing our time wisely, and using supplies appropriately.
Continue to encourage the use of the Go for the Gold Reading Olympics Reading Logs. We've increased our abundance of Reading Counts quizzes/points, and we're continuing to count books read, minutes read, and reading counts points as a cumulative total. Thanks for signing the logs daily to keep our 'up to date' points total. Our goal is to earn a gold medal by having each student read a minimum of 75 minutes at home per week. That's 15 minutes a day, which is a reasonable demand for the 3 books that they bring home from our class library.
Many thanks to the parents who signed up to accompany us on our first Bus Study Trip to the Farm in Springtime. Can't wait to see how tagliatelle is made and finally enjoy a picnic together. Remember, we'll depart shortly after our arrival at school on Thursday, 1 April, and spend most of the day at the farm enjoying the spring weather and sights on the farm. Send in your Euro and Study Trip Permission slip as soon as possible. Thank you for your attention to this.
We're working on our end of 3rd quarter assessments in Reading, Writing & Math. The students are working independently on most assignments now and show continued improvement toward readiness for the expectations of 2nd graders. Keep up the on-line homework, the reader's response logs, and reading of books and/or on-line books so our minutes read can grow into Gold Medals.
Ask you student if they need any replacement supplies. We are especially low on sharpened pencils, glue sticks, and new kinds of fun things to use when completing coloring tasks at school. One family has furnished our class with an entire box of new glue sticks, and they have really come in handy. We're also going to be planting some flower boxes outside our room in the window sills. If you have any fresh planting soil, plastic window boxes, gravel and bedding plants, we'd be glad to take them off your hands to watch our 'garden' grow! We've had fun with sidewalk chalk and most of us made a self-portrait during our long-awaited, but hard earned extra 15-minute recess. Looking forward to the treasures you'll donate, perhaps?
Thank you so much for all the support this year. I will push them academically and behaviorally throughout the rest of the year and hope that the summer months shows the continuation of work with the on-line programs on this blog. A little too soon to talk about the summer, but learning will continue, if you encourage it in between swimming and family trips. What a great year we've had so far.
Remember that Spring Recess dates are: 9 April-18 April!!
Mrs. Petty
