February 14 - 18, 2011

Important Notes:

• Valentine's Day Party is Monday! Don't forget to bring your valentines!
• Monday, February 21st is a school holiday --President's Day!
• Wednesday, February 23rd -Chapel
• Thursday, March 10th -- Report Cards
• Friday, March 11th Science Fest
• March 14th - 18th -- Spring Break

Other Announcements:

I am so very proud of our the explorer research reports that were presented this Tuesday! 

Congratulations to the following students for entering the Weekly Reader contest: Watkins, Lucy, Prather Anne, Gray, and Ellie. The reports were outstanding! They were so exciting others have been inspired to do the reports without entering the contest. Any students who choose to do so will still be rewarded with classroom cash awards!

****I just saw that WR extended the deadline for the contest!! The deadline they have now posted is February 25th!!!! Here are those links again for those who are interested:  http://www.weeklyreader.com/1/contests/article/eyewitness-history-contest http://www.weeklyreader.com/article/eyewitness-history%20

Plans for next week:

• Spelling- Unit 25: extra words: lunar, president; test Thursday--Spellingcity.com is updated!
• English - Letter writing; Oral Book Reports will be presented Friday, February 25th, Rubrics and guidelines went home Friday, February 11th
• Reading - Across the Wide Dark Sea;   Skills: Making Inferences, Dictionary skills: syllabication, suffixes; Novel: How to Eat Fried Worms
• Math - pages 210 - 231; Test Friday, February 18th on Chapters 11- 13
• Science - Moon, pages 414 -423
• Social Studies - Pony Express and Inventions Over Time; pages 252 -263;  Ch. 8 test--Friday, February 25th
• Bible - Deuteronomy 6: 5-6 -- "Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts." Recite in class Friday, February 18th.