End of Year Picnic:
A flyer went home today giving out details for the 1st and 2nd grade End of Year Picnic.  It will be held on Thursday, June 16.  Please detach the bottom of the flyer and fill out to RSVP for the picnic.  We need the forms back in order to give your child permission to attend the picnic.  We will need parents to donate items.  Please log onto the following Volunteer Spot link to sign up for items for the party.

http://vols.pt/Q1THeb

We're using VolunteerSpot (the leading online Sign-up and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming Sign-ups.

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see our Sign-up on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/Q1THeb

2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on VolunteerSpot.

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

 

End of year countdown: 

Monday: Popcorn

Tuesday: Quiet Day

Wednesday: Rainbow (Write with colored pencils)  Please bring in the colored pencils.  If you have extra to share then that would be great.

Thursday: Silly Socks Day

Friday: Bring a Toy to Share via show-n-tell

Behavior: We are in the final two weeks of school.  Please talk with your child about behavior expectations.  We are having an increase in disruptive behavior, name calling, inappropriate language and students not keeping their hands to themselves.  We have a lot of special events coming up and it will break my heart to take these events away from students, but we will.  

Reading Homework: Cereal Box book report is due by Friday.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Other than that assignment, homework is wrapped up for Mrs. Hull's class for the year!!!  Anything that comes home completed was done and checked in class and can be kept home.  However, if a student is not able to complete a classwork assignment in class then I will ask that they finish it for homework.  This will be on an individual case basis and it will be your child's responsibility to communicate with you what needs to be completed.  I will not update the blog with this information because it will not apply to the whole class.

Math classroom practice packets:

• Partitioning packet is due June 10

Health quiz: June 14
Science quiz: June 15
Math Unit 7 assessment: June 15

Field Day: Field Day is Friday, June 17th.  Let us know if you would like to come in to volunteer!  It is always such a fun day!  Only parents who are fingerprinted will be allowed to volunteer.

I just wanted to apologize and thank everyone for the patience while I got the sloppy copies back to the students.  Unfortunately, my son was sick and I had to stay home with him.  I was able to conference today with all the students who turned in their sloppy copies so far.  I discussed with them the changes that needed to be made and they all seemed to understand but please send me an email if you have any questions.  Below you will find some bulleted points that help outline some corrections that I made on many of the student's papers.

• Ingredients section is not for actual ingredients.  Think of it like ingredients for a book.  It needs to include Character, Setting, Plot, Problem and Solution.
• Please list the ingredients on the side of the box.    

Characters:
Setting:
Plot:
Problem:
Solution:

• Nutritional Information: Pick 3 characters and write a sentence about each explaining their importance in the book.  You can simply list these characters as well.
• Review: This is the students opinion of the book.  Did you like the book? Why? Give examples from the book to support why you did or didn't like the book? Would you recommend this book to a friend?

Bring a snack tomorrow.  We are having lunch a bit later because the students are taking their star test.  I told the students that they can bring a small, neat, low maintenance snack to eat in the classroom before the test.