We have a busy couple of weeks coming up. Tomorrow report cards will go home so be looking for those in your child's backpack. The envelope gets signed and brought back, but you keep everything else. If you have any questions about the report cards just give me a call or email me.
Next week I will be going to the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) Conference in Boston. I will be out for 2 days, March 27th and March 28th. I hope to come back with lots of cool science ideas! Since I won't be in to remind the kids, please make sure that they come dressed as the character from their book and have their report ready to share on Monday, March 31. I will also not be here to remind them that it is Beach Day on Friday, March 28th. They can come to school with towels to read on and eat lunch on. It is a fun day. Also, that night the PTA puts on bingo night at KES. It is a fun family event and each kid gets to go home with a free book!
Next week is also the end of the colors month that the school nutrition committee has been putting on. Tuesday is green/white day and Thursday is orange day.
My final reminder it that the band and chorus concert is on April 2 at 7:00. The kids should be here around 6:30-6:45. All the students participate in this event. You will be amazed when you here the beginner band!
In reading right now we are reading 3 different books and meeting in literature circles to discuss what we had just read. After we are done with that we will be learning about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and reading many of his poems. We will write poems of our own and we will have a big Longfellow Tea on May 9th at 9:00. You will be invited to come hear our poetry and enjoy some nice refreshments with us. Our final field trip will be to the Longfellow house in Portland on May 6th.
In math we are in the middle of Unit 9 which is about percents. They are discovering the relationships between fractions, percents and decimals.
In Social Studies we are learning about the southeast region of the United States. The students did really well on their Northeast state and capitol test. We will have a quiz on the southeast states next week.
The students are working on descriptive pieces right now in writing. They had to design a special chair and describe it. You should see the fancy gadgets and powers they have!!!
I think that is it for now. Have a great weekend! 