Here are this week's happenings:
- This Wednesday, April 26 is our walking field trip to SUU for Bard's Birthday Bash. We will leave here at 9:00 (so please make sure you child is here on time). We will walk to the Shakespeare center for activities like Renaissance dancing, jousting, improv, and cake with the queen. We will return at approximately 11:30 right before lunch. Thanks to those that have volunteered to walk with us to SUU.
- We have a minor (fun) change to our trip to the St. George Children's Museum next Monday, May 1. In addition to our trip to the museum and lunch we are able to ride the carousel adjacent to the museum. That will up the cost just a bit. Instead of just $1.00 the cost will now be $1.75 ($1.00 for the museum and 75 cents for the carousel). If you haven't already sent your money please do so by this Friday, April 28. I have three parents that have committed to coming down with us to the museum. I still need one more parent that can commit to coming with us that day. The museum requires 1 adult for every 5 students. If you can come please let me know ASAP. You are welcome to ride the bus with us or follow us down or meet us at the museum.
- Spelling Words were sent home today. They are a bit tricky and will require some extra study at home for most students. The test will be this Friday.
- This is our last week for reading intervention (special) reading groups. I will continue to hold small reading groups in my class through the month of May, but the reading aides will be testing students, and taking inventory and closing up shop for the summer. I so appreciate all of the wonderful assistance we receive at East Elementary especially when it comes to small group reading interventions. Our final end-of-the-year Dibels test will be next Wednesday, May 3 in the morning. Please help by ensuring that your child gets a good nights sleep and food in their tummy that morning. If they are sick or absent they will be tested another day.
- May 17 is the final day for our 100-book challenge. I have several that are so close to getting to the 100 book mark! We will have our Pizza party the following Monday, May 20 and I will submit a picture of all of the kids that read 100 books to the Iron County Today newspaper. I will let you know the date of that publication after submission.
- We will continue our Sight Word Soldier program for three more weeks. Thanks to Mary's mom who has faithfully come in every Wednesday to help keep that up. It really helps! Some necklaces are overflowing with beads and that means that little brains are overflowing with sight words too.
- I really will get Scholastic book orders out this week. They will be due next Wednesday, May 3. That will be the final order that I will send home this year. They will be back in time before the summer break.
- We just started our final unit in reading today and as I noted earlier will be working on that until the end :). Today we learned about other spellings for the /ae/ (sound)--'ai' and 'ay'. I love it when my students point out those "newly' learned spellings in their reading. In math, we are working with two-dimensional shapes. Today we continued with sides and vertices (corners or angles) and added trapezoids and hexagons to the mix. We will continue to learn about the history of the earth and then move into Animal Habitats to finish out the year.
- One last field trip request--I only have two parents that have volunteered to come swimming with us on May 9. I need two more (but will take as many as want to come). Please consider coming with us and swimming with the kids. As a reminder, we will leave the school around 12:40 and return by 3:00 on Tuesday, May 9.
- Take-home books again were not sent home today as our librarian was out sick today.
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