Mrs. Tally – May 5, 2014

Dear Families, 

It was wonderful seeing so many of you at our year end Convocation.  We have much to celebrate as God has so richly blessed this 2013-14 school year.

I will finalize our final book order on Monday, May 5th.

On Monday afternoon,  the elementary will be treated to a Mariachi Band in the courtyard to celebrate Cinco De Mayo. Children are free to bring sombreros or other clothing that celebrates the day.  As our year winds down, we still are keeping our usual schedule and work load.  We will be putting all the finishing touches on our projects for Open House. The children are excited for you to see their classroom.    

OPEN HOUSE – Our Diorama book project is due the morning of  Open House on May 6th. You may drop it off in the classroom before school starts. We will also do an Oral Presentation on our project after Open House for this project. The Diorama will come back home on Friday, May 9th.  On Open House night we will be performing our cultural dances with Mrs. Ainley.  Please have your child wear their class t-shirts. You will come up to our room first at 6:30 PM and at about 7ish we will head over to the G.L Johnson Chapel where the Elementary Fine Arts Festival will be.  Before Grades 4-6 perform inside, 2nd and 3rd grade will perform their dances outside of the chapel. You are welcome to also go in the chapel and see the upper grades perform. 

YOUNG AUTHORS – Our young author dories were judged by the Honors English class in the High School. They all did a great job.  The top three stories were:  First Place – Colby Poplin, Second Place – Mia Alberta and Third Place – Tryphena Gunawan

LIBRARY INFO – Parents please note: All items checked out from the library were due Friday, May 2. Reminders of items checked out will be sent to the students beginning the week of May 5. There is a fine of $25.00 for each item that is not returned. Many wonderful titles are lost each year because they are not returned. We greatly appreciate your assistance in getting books back in and onto the shelves so the collection is ready to go again in August. Please contact me if you have any questions.    Lin Brown, Librarian 299-1695 ext, 119 

COOKIES – We are asking that each family bring one dozen cookies for Open House, May 6th.  You can bring them that morning or in the afternoon when you pick up your child from school.

THE UGLY DUCKLING –  We will be going to the Tower Theatre to see this musical.  The date is Tuesday, May 13th.  We will be traveling in carpools, leaving at 10:15 AM with a show time of 11:00 AM. We will go to a park for lunch after the show. Please return the carpool permission slip that was in the Monday Work Envelope by Friday, May 9th.

LANGUAGE ARTS –   We will have our last Reading Log on May 9th which will be due May 16th. We will continue with our Reading groups until the last week of school.  All   anthology books (blue or brown) need to be returned by Friday, May 9th.

MATH –   We are  are on Time and Calendar. We are learning to tell time to the quarter hour. Please practice at home with clocks. Emphasize starting with the hour hand and then move to the minute hand. We start with the one on the clock to start counting minutes and count by fives until we reach the minute hand. The Chapter Review will go home on Tuesday, April 29th.  The test will be on Tuesday, May 6th. The review will be due on that day as well. Our last chapter will be Measurements, but we will not have a chapter test  on this unit.

SOCIAL SCIENCE – We will continue studying the Marketplace and will finish it up next week.

BIBLE – We will be studying Paul.

YEAR END SWIMMING PARTY – Our final celebration of the year will be a swim party, Monday, May 19th, from 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM. at the  Poplins. All are welcome to attend. You will meet at Colby’s house at 10:30 AM. You do not need to come to our campus first. If you will need a ride from school, please let me know as we will not be organizing formal carpools. You will also need to pick up your child after the party is over, or make arrangements for them to get home. We will not be going back to People’s Campus.  Again, if you need help with this, just let me know.The Poplins have graciously offered to BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs. There is a sign-up outside our door for the rest of the items needed for our celebration. 

SHOW AND TELL – This week will be Team A. Your child can show twice during the week..