Friday, April 23, 2010

Week of April 26th

This week we will have homework on Thursday only.

We will check-out books on Friday.

If you have not returned your child's spring picture packet, or the money to purchase the spring picture packet, please do so as soon as possible. The money or returned pictures were due on Friday, April 23rd but we'll still take them this week.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Week of April 19

This week we will have homework on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

We will check-out library books on Wednesday.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Week of April 12th

Thank you to all of you who were able to come to one of our woodlands presentations. The kids had a great time and it was a wonderful way for them to share what they had learned. I really appreciate all you do for your children.

This week we will have homework on Tuesday and Wednesday.

We will check-out books on Tuesday.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Week of April 5th

This is a big week for us in our classroom. We will be presenting our woodlands and our woodland animal reports on Thursday. We are working hard to get our reports finished and published and ready to go for Thursday.

I heard back from about half of the families and almost everyone preferred the evening time for our woodlands presentation. We did have a couple families who preferred the day time, so we're going to present twice on Thursday.

We will be presenting at 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 8th. Our 5th grade buddies will be coming for a special presentation the same day at 3:20pm. If you are unable to attend the 6:00pm presentation, you are welcome to come to the presentation with our buddies. Both presentations will be held in our classroom, and all family members are invited to come. Look for an invitation made by your child in their blue folder today.

As part of finishing up our woodlands we are in need of some woodland animals to add to the landscape we have already created. I will be sending home a list of woodland animals in student blue folders today. If students have any stuffed animals that are on the list they are asked to bring them to school starting tomorrow (April 6) to add to our woodlands. If possible, please put student names on the stuffed animals.

We will have homework on Wednesday night only this week. This is largely due to the fact that we'll be here presenting on Thursday night and that we'll be spending a lot of class time this week to do our final preparations for our presentation.

We will check-out books on Friday of this week.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Thursday, April 8th, at 3:20pm or 6:00 pm.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Homework Change for March 31st

I'm going to make a change to our homework schedule. Instead of having homework tonight, we will have it tomorrow (Thursday).

We just introduced fractions yesterday in math and I feel that we need to work on that for another day before we move on to the next idea. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you :)

Monday, March 29, 2010

Week of March 29

This week we will have homework on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We will check-out books on Wednesday.

Don't forget that Friday is an early dismissal and students are done at 12:15.

As many of you probably know, we have been working on a woodlands in our classroom. Our woodlands is almost complete and we are working this week to finish up our reports on woodland animals. I want to have a time when parents can come in to see our woodlands and students can present the reports that they have written. I am asking you to please let me know whether during the day, or evening would work better for you to come in. I want to make sure as many parents can come as possible, so I want to schedule it at the most convenient time for the most people. Right now it's looking like we'll probably be having it on April 8th and the time would be 3:25 during the day or 6:00 in the evening. Please respond by email or send a note to let me know which you prefer. I'll do whichever the most parents are available for. Thank you :)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Week of March 15

This week we will have homework on Monday and Wednesday.

We will check-out books on Friday.

We will be doing our papier mache and painting of our woodlands trees on Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. You may want to send your child to school in clothes that can get messy, or with a paint shirt that they can wear over the top of their clothes.

If you're able or interested in helping out either of these days, please let me know.