Weekly Update

Hello Everyone!

Happy Friday! We had a fun, but busy week preparing for our First Grade Music Program and Mother's Day. The kids are having fun and everyone is getting excited for summer!

4th Quarter Interim Progress Reports:
4th Quarter Interim Progress Reports will be issued on Monday, May 13th. If your child receives an interim, it will be emailed to you on Monday, May 13th using the email on file in your ParentVue account. You can update and/or verify your email address by logging into your ParentVue account.

First Grade Music Program:
A friendly reminder that our First Grade Music Program will be this coming Tuesday, May14th at 8:30 a.m. in the gym at school. Please sign in next to the office before coming to the gym. For your seating purposes, our class will be the 2nd class from the left when viewing the risers from the audience. The students are working very hard in Music class to prepare for the program. They are excited to show you their performance on Tuesday!

Box Tops for Education:
Box Tops for Education are due next Friday, May 17th. If you no longer have the paper that I sent home for the Box Tops, please send them to school in a Ziplock bag labeled with your child's name.

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading- We will use a four square model to read and respond to fiction and nonfiction books. 
• Writing- We will begin our Poetry unit and learn about different ways poet's write their poems.
• Math- We will review concepts learned previously this year such as fractions, addition, and subtraction.
• Science- We will continue our study of plants. We will talk about what plants need to grow, identify the parts of a plant, and begin to germinate our own seeds. 

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or feedback. 

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers out there! This weekend Donal and I will be traveling to Pennsylvania to visit my family and to spend some time with my mom for Mother's Day. We will also be celebrating Donal's 31st birthday! It's a big weekend filled with celebrations for us!