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.

Volunteer Sign Up

Unfortunately we had some schedule changes that have affected our volunteer times. Please re-sign up on the form below for specific volunteer times. Thanks so much and we apologize for the inconvenience.

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Summative Date

Our first summative is scheduled for October 4th from 5:00-6:30. 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!

Homework will begin the week of August 29th, so the first homework checklist will be due on September 5th. After ILP's you will know what teachers your child has for each subject area. Please see the website pages for each teacher of your child's to find out the homework assignments for the week and to see what your child is working on in class.

We are collecting empty toilet paper rolls for a project and we also need full rolls of paper towels. If you are able to send in either of these items, please do so on Monday. We will be collecting them through Thursday, September 1st.

We will see you at your ILP conference this week!

This week we are continuing to get to know our students and are completing many assessments to find out more about them. We will not begin switching for reading and math yet, as we need to determine the best placement for each student. Homework will not start until we begin switching as most of our homework is related to reading and math.

We are making crocodiles on Friday that are made out of egg cartons. If you have a cardboard egg carton, please send it in on Friday with your child. If not, we have an alternate crocodile to make that does not involve an egg carton. Thanks!