O'Connor's Outstanding Kids!

May

Welcome to May!  There are so many exciting things going on this month.  Please make a note of the following dates.  You may also find these dates on the calendar in the take home folders.

May 5^th              80^th Anniversary Celebration

May 6^th                  First grade trip to the zoo

May 9^th            All Books need to be returned to the Media Center

May 12            AR Picnic / Animal Projects Due

May 14^th            Field Day

May 20^th            Class awards in our classroom

May 22^nd            End of the year party

May 23rd      Last Day of School

It has been such a pleasure watching the students grow over the last 10 months and it is going to be very hard to say goodbye to them for the summer.  I am so proud of how hard each and every student has worked this year.  Parents, I would like to thank each of you for the wonderful support and time you have taken to work in the classroom with us.  The students love having you come in and I enjoy working closely with you.  Thank you again!!!  I hope that everyone has a fantastic summer.

Spring Time

Welcome to spring time!  Everyone is in such a good mood and the weather is nice and relaxing.  We have gotten 60 lunchroom leader awards so we are going to have a picnic with our lunches, an ice cream sundae party and a class game.  We are going to plan this day after the CRCT.  I will send home information when it gets closer and parents are very much welcome to join us!

In science we are studying animals.  Each student is going to do a project with an animal that he/she has chosen.  I will send home the guidlines for the project around CRCT time.  The zoo trip is coming up!  This is our last field trip and I there are no limits on the number of parent volunteers!  The more, the merrier!

With Spring Break coming, if there is anyone that is staying in town and would like to hamstersit our dear Pip, please let me know.  Also, with the new baby on the way, I am looking for a sweet loving home for Pipsqueak.  He is a year old and just a sweetie.  My daughter us not old enough to appreciate him.  Please let me know if you would like to adopt him.  He comes with a cage and rolling ball.

Important Dates:

Spring Break - 4/7 - 4/11 Have a nice relaxing holiday!

CRCT - 4/23 - 4/25 - We are READY!!!!

March

We are in March now and are excited about the upcoming nice weather!  The third nine weeks is ending this month.  The students have been working extra hard each day on the CRCT practice. 

Our silent auction is coming up.  First grade is creating a gourmet cooking basket.  Please send in cooking utensils or books for the basket if you have not done so already.  Mrs. Cushman, Mrs. Kurtz and myself are auctioning ourselves off as well!!  We are going to do a cooking activity and board games with the highest bidder! 

We are learning about plants!  If you have any seeds from food or for the garden you would like to send in, please put them in a plastic baggie and label the baggie! 

Important Dates:

3/4 - Early Release

3/8 - Movie on the Mountain!!!  I will be serving food from 5:30-6:30!

3/17 - Lepr. Traps due!!!  Wear Green!

3/20 - Report Cards are sent home

3/24 - Multicultural Arts Week

Fantastic February

Welcome to February!!  We have been working hard in our 3rd nine weeks!  We are publishing a class book.  We will be sending off order forms soon.  The books are bound in hard back and are such wonderful keepsakes.  More information will come with the order form.  Please note that once the order has been sent off to the publisher I can not order any extras.

I will be sending home a notice about making Valentines boxes at home.  If you would like to get started, a shoebox is perfect!  Just decorate in the spirit of Valentines day and send in by the 14th.  Be as creative as possible and just make sure that your name is in a place that everyone can read!  We will be doing Valentines activites on the 14th and passing out Valentines to the whole class.  Please make sure that if you send in cards and/or treats that we have enough for everyone in the class.  A class list will also come home with the Valentines Box reminders.

Thank you so much for the wonderful birthday present.  I can't wait to use it when Spring rolls around. 

Please make sure to the read the previous post regarding center moms.

Important Dates:

Feb. 6th- Early Release

Feb. 7th- Picture Day!

Feb. 14th- Valentine boxes due!

Feb. 18th- no school

Feb. 19- teacher workday/ no school

Feb. 22nd- Six Flags reading logs due!

Feb. 26th- Technology Night- Hope to see you there