April 2008

Dear Families:

I trust that everyone has had a restful spring break. I know the kids were excited to take their trips, see their families, and just generally relax. Our classmate Luke Nemerov had his tonsils out over the break and we are glad that he has had time to re cover.

We come back to school with the CRCT just around the corner. We will spend time everyday doing practice activities. I have discontinued centers until after the CRCT.

Tuesday April 15 is the PTA - DEAR - night. I will share a story and song that your kids enjoyed. Come and listen. DEAR stands for Drop Everything And Read.

A big thank you to to Mrs. Ezenwa. She was our Junior Achievement volunteer and she did a super job.

We have started a unit of study on Life Cycles. We began with plants, and I know that the kids have become seed explorers. We will look inside a seed this week, and plant a lima bean.

We will be receiving our Butterfly Gardens as well next week. The class will be able to watch the life cycle of a Painted Lady Butterfly. Once they emerge from their cocoons we will release them. It is very exciting.

The kids are completing their creative writing stories about the space alien they created.

The class has made good progress with the introduction to multiplication. Most of them really like it.

Continue to send in snack with your child.

I will notify to all of any special snack needs during CRCT.

Thank you for all of your support.

Mrs. Liddicoet