Newsletter March 19 - March 23

It's almost spring and wow! we got some snow!  I guess we need the water though and by the afternoon the snow was pretty much melted off of the playground.

Here are this week's happenings:

• On Wednesday, we are walking to SUU for the Tom Sawyer play.  We will leave the school at 9:15 and return by lunch.  Please have your child here on time that day or they will have to stay back at the school.  I have only had four students send in $1.00 for that play.  That is the cost of the play.  Please send $1.00 by tomorrow!!!
• Spelling words were sent home today.  The test will be next Monday, March 26.
• March Scholastic book orders are due on Wednesday, March 21.
• The PTA reading program (bookmarks for prizes) will conclude the end of April.  If your child wants to earn the prizes they will only have until them to turn in bookmarks.
• I sent home a note about our first grade Easter Egg hunt on Friday, March 30.  Please read over that and help us by donating plastic candy-filled eggs. I need volunteers to help make this activity successful--actually it won't work at all if I don't have any volunteers :)
• Today we started our new book Grace--it is about Grace, her sister Jill and their adventures on their farm. We also started a new Unit on Animal habitats as we finished The history of the Earth last Friday. In math we are still working on two-digit addition and subtraction.  We will test on that material by this Friday. 
• Don't forget we have sight word soldiers on Friday and to read with your child from their take-home books every night! Congratulations to Piper.  She is our second student to reach the 100-book milestone in our 100-book challenge.  That challenge continues until May 16, unlike the PTA reading program which ends the end of April.

Happy Reading!!