Sunday, February 15, 2009

Week of February 16th

Thank you for a great Valentine's Day party! The kids had a great time, and we still somehow managed to squeeze in some work! Remember - Monday is a holiday!

Notes/Reminders:
* Our next fieldtrip will be to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium to see a performance by the Santa Cruz Youth Symphony. This is coming up very soon (Monday, February 23rd). Permission slips are coming home Tuesday. Please send these back with your signature and $4.00 as soon as possible! 

* The last day of the 2nd trimester is coming up soon (March 6th). Report Cards will be sent home the following Friday. Keep an eye out for Missing Work notes (coming home this week). Please sign and return these notes! 

* PVUSD wants to hear from parents regarding the budget crisis! Go to the PVUSD website and take the parent survey. 

Please practice the multiplication facts with your child every day - Just 5 minutes in the car on the way to school is all it takes. Mastery of these facts will be a huge help in many other math concepts.  

* Please check your homes for Social Studies and Science textbooks! We began the year with one for every child, and we are now missing a few. We need all the textbooks in the classroom for daily use. 

This week we will...

...perform our Bully Skits for the Kindergarten and 1st grade classes. 

...have a visit from a Santa Cruz Symphony docent, who will be teaching us all about the symphony for our upcoming fieldtrip.

...continue learning about the different systems of measurement. There will be a Chapter 15 test Friday the 20th. 

...read more of By the Great Horn Spoon! There will be a quiz Thursday covering chapters 1-4. 

...begin our next Writer's Workshop project:  "How I Can Make A Difference". We'll be using this topic to practice writing a 5-paragraph essay. 

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