9-15 May 2010
Important Future Dates:
14 May-Friday-No School for Students
16 May-Yearbook Pre-Sales Deadline- $20 (Best Price!) Place in envelope, please :-)
21 May-Friday-Study Trip to Gulliverlandia! Send in 10 Euro, if you haven't already.
24 May-Monday-Field Day 12-2:15 p.m.
31 May-Monday-Memorail Day - No School - Federal Holiday
1 June-Tuesday-NO HOMEWORK DAY-Incentive/Reward for READ for the GOLD
17 June-Thursday-Last 1/2 day of school!! Dismissal: 11:15
Thank you for the many gifts and thoughtful acts during Teacher Appreciation Week!
It is MY pleasure to teach your child!!! Thank you for the opportunity!
Please send in your Euro for our Study Trip to Gulliverlandia. I have submitted all the names for the chaperons and we had over 6 of you want to go. We'll see if we get more than 6 seats for chaperons. If not, I'll inform you whether or not you were among the first 6 to commit. So sorry it came down to this for selection.
As you already know, we're using the newly adopted Reading/Language Arts curriculum throughout the rest of the year. The transition has been seamless and I'm impressed at the students' flexibilities in new reading material. We call this 'transfer' in the learning world. Can students take what they know already and apply it to new learning situations and materials. I'm pleased at their ability to show this. Please continue reading the book(s) nightly and on the weekend through the end of the year. I am requiring everyone to take a minimum of 1 Reading Counts test each day. More than one daily is even better. We're closing in on 200 class points and almost 200,000 words read. Expect more and watch progression still occur.
Students are still visiting the Cool School part of the cafeteria, but we've had our problems lately. Many students are purchasing their lunch tray, but throwing away food in order to get to the Cool School and purchase extra items. Please encourage one or the other, the tray lunch OR the Cool School menu. There is not enough time to eat both during our lunch time.
I'm trying to give 'new life' to our homework links by researching some new sites. Continue with the current ones and remember that these links will be available to you over the summer, even if you're PCS-ing! RAZ-kids, IXL Math, and Sight Words w/Samson will remain as the flagships over the summer, as well. I am expecting your student to complete, entirely, ALL 28 lists on Sight Words with Samson by the end of May. In early June, I'll clear the results from the year, and enable your student to repeat all lists and their activities during the summer as extra practice on the high-frequency words lists.
May I encourage you all to visit the Base Library and enroll your child in the Summer Reading Program. They are such great readers now and I'll be sending home a list, electronically, so you can help your child select appropriate books that match their level of reading, which includes some library titles. The weekly events are always amazing, the culminating activity at the end of the summer, so fun......and it helps your child to avoid summer reading loss. I'll also include some math web-sites so that they don't show any loss in mathematics over the summer. Encouraging learning over the summer is especially helpful to students as they prepare for the next year's learning experience.
Mrs. Petty
