This week, the 1/2 teachers will be attending a training on Tuesday and Wednesday. We will have substitutes those two days teaching in our classrooms. We will be getting trained in Thinking Maps which will help us with our instruction in all content areas! We are very excited for the opportunity.

Also, the only thing we are currently collecting at school are Box Tops for Education. Thank you for thinking of us and sending in other things, but for now, we are not collecting them.

Today, September 21st, each student brought home a gold piece of paper. On the gold piece of paper they wrote a list of things that they would like to bring to school from home. The items will be used to make projects for the Ancient Egypt summative. They should be asking for things like cardboard, toilet paper rolls, aluminum foil, gold glitter, scrap pieces of fabric, things you might have around the house. Please have a conversation with them about what the items will be used for. You can certainly send in a substitute item that you think might help them to build their project. You should not need to go out and buy anything special for this project. For example, students might bring in cereal boxes to build a step pyramid. Thank you for your support, send in the "junk."

Our Summative date has been changed to October 4th from 5:00-6:30 due to a scheduling conflict. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The kids will walk you through our Ancient Egypt Museum and you will see them perform a song about Egypt. Mrs. Sullivan's class is performing at 5:00, Mrs. Johns class at 5:30, and Miss Aguilar's class performs at 6:00. Please plan to be there for the performance for your child's homeroom and then for about 20-30 minutes before or after the performance to look at your child's projects. The kids will need to wear dress clothes or wear an Ancient Egyptian style outfit. We'll see you then!

We are working on putting together volunteer schedules and will have them out within the next week or so. Thank you for signing up!

Galileo testing will take place in our cluster on Thursday and Friday this week. Please make sure your child is well rested and eats a good breakfast.

We will have homework this week, please check your child's classes for the appropriate homework. The book report sheets can be completed on one chapter of a book if your child is working on a chapter book that they haven't finished yet.