REMEMBER---Daylight Savings time begins this weekend. Please set your clocks forward one hour before going to bed Saturday night!
Permission slips for the Fiske Planetarium field trip went home in the Monday folders on March 3rd. Please return the signed form ASAP if you haven't already done so. The field trip is on Tuesday, March 18th.
Our overnight will be on May 23rd at the Denver Zoo. Our activities will be tied in with Earth Day.
We have two other field trips in May!! We will be going to Loretta Heights to watch Slim Goodbody on May 8th and on May 15th, we will be going downtown to visit the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Mint.
We are in the midst of our Read to Feed community service project. Literature came home about this last week and the kiddoes are very excited to be reading to support children in underpriviledged countries. Our culminating activity will be a read-a-thon on Friday, March 21st.
Original work orders were sent home on Friday. Please let us know if you didn't receive what you ordered. The pieces looked great!!!
This was the first full week of the 3rd trimester (I can hardly believe it)!!!!! We switched specials and are now in Computers and Spanish for the first 6 weeks.
March and April weather is unpredictable. They are the first and third snowiest months, respectively. Please continue to make sure you kiddoe is coming to school dressed appropriately for the conditions and for outdoor recess.
CSAP testing begins this week. 3rd and 4th graders will test Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (March 11-13th) this week. 4th graders will test Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (March 17-20) next week. We are testing on Monday the 17th due to our field trip the morning of 3/18.
Coming this week: 03/10-03/14: Theme classes will not meet regularly due to CSAP
- Finish presenting our muscle posters
- Review bones, muscles and joints
- State classes with Mrs. B
Highlights from last week:
- Talked about types of muscles in the body
- Became teachers about muscles: each group was assigned an article out of our Muscles Magazine. They had to create a fact poster to assist them in teaching the class about their individual part. Half the groups shared Friday, the other half will share this week
- Greg Richards spoke to us about bullying and feeling safe in school
- Switched to Mrs. B for state studies on the Northern Middle states
- Kathryn did a wonderful job presenting her Student of the Week poster