Friday, April 28, 2017

April 29th!

4/29/17

Dear Families,
We have had a very productive week!  Here's what we have been doing...

Writing:  Our focus has been poetry!  We have learned 7 forms so far: haiku, diamante, cinquain, pantoum, bio-poems, odes and acrostic.  Students have been reading and writing poems and learning various strategies poets use.  We hvae been so impressed with how thoughtful students have been and how eager they have been to share.  We will be creating a class poetry book that will be published for the Poetry Breakfast on May 12th.

Reading: Our focus has been reading poetry focusing on comprehension and fluency!

Important Dates:

May 1st: Bus routes return to normal...NO MORE MUD ROUTES!
May 12th:  Mother's Day Poetry Breakfast 8-8:45am




Friday, April 14, 2017

Happy Spring!

April 14, 2017

Happy Spring,
What a wonderful week we have had! We enjoyed the spring weather as we took breaks from SBAC testing!  We are SO proud of our students and the perseverance they showed during these last two weeks.  We didn't do much for new learning this week as our focus was completing our testing but we had lots of fun events!

Wednesday:  We participated in a CLiF writing activity.  The winner in each grade will receive a calendar!  We will announce the winner by the end of the day!

Thursday:  We went up to WMHS to see Seussical the Musical!  We have amazing talent in our learning community.

Friday:  Today we will be shaving Mr. Kinnarney's head AND students will be able to throw pies at teachers!  It should be a fun afternoon!

Upcoming dates:
4/14-4/23  April Vacation

High/Low

High- we went to watch Seussical
High- I finished SBAC
Low- There were 5 fire drills
High- The monkeys ran around during the play
Low- the fire alarm didn’t shut off
High- I finished SBAC
Low- we had SBAC
High- we had cookies for Milly and Clara’s birthday
High- we went to Seussical
High- SBAC celebration
High- the alarm kept going off and we got to go outside
High- we saw Seussical
High- we saw Seussical
High- we found Blue Devils around the school
High- we get to shave Mr. Kinnarney’s head
Low- I had trouble swimming at the acknowledgement
High- I got to see Seussical the Musical
High- we get to go to the Health Fair
High- A monkey ran in front of me!
Low- the fire alarms kept going off
High- We did the writing for Clif
Low- going to the health fair
High- We are walking up to the high school again today!
High- we get to walk up to the high school
High- we went to Seussical
High- I found a lot of Blue Devils and we get to celebrate today
HIgh- we went to the high school
Low- we will be missing out on a lot of school
High- I’m on my third page of my writing

Low- the fire alarms wouldn’t stop going off!