Hi! We have lots of exciting things coming up so wanted to make sure you have all the info. you need!
Next Thurs., April 25th is the Bluejay Expo. It is a time for your family to come up and see all the great things happening in our room and in school. Doors will open at 2:15. You must enter through the front of your school and have your ID. You will wait in the gym until 2:30 and then will be dismissed to the classes. If you have multiple children here at BE, please come and get your kindergartener first. You can tour the room, see what we’ve been working on, explore the hall art and take a tour of the bldg and go to the older kid’s class as well. If you are ready to leave before dismissal, you can sign them out with me in the room and take them when done. Please let me know if you will NOT have an adult here with your child. We try and find some other adults to pair them up with if not. The kids are excited to share their work with you! If there is any way at least one person can make it, it’s important to the kids and hard for kindergarteners to understand when someone isn’t here. 🙂
The field trip will be on Friday April 26th. We will leave at 8:45, so please make sure you are on time to school. I will email volunteers with directions separately. We will be inside and outside, so please have them wear weather appropriate clothing to play at the park. Tennis shoes would be best and send a jacket if needed with their name in it. They will need a disposable sack lunch in a paper bag or gallon baggie works well. Please send a disposable water bottle with their name on it as well. We will be going to the Coterie Theater and then the park by the Indian Creek library to eat lunch followed by a tour of the library.
Book orders are due by noon on 4/24. This will be our last order of the year.
Kids Teach notes came home. Please remember to have them send in their idea as soon as possible so we can make sure it’s long enough and it doesn’t double up with someone else. I told them they could not teach about something we’ve already learned about and can’t do ocean animals as we’ll be doing that in May. They need to have a poster board to go with their lesson and it’s important that they do the work. They need to practice at home so they are ready to go on their day. If you know they’ll be gone the day that they were assigned, please let me know asap. This is part of their speaking and listening grade and is not an optional project. 🙂
For our community service project, we will be modge podging rocks that were painted a few years ago and putting them out by the playground to brighten the area!
We are learning about engineering and the terms structure and function. You’ll see a few projects we’ve done at Bluejay Expo. After that, we will learn about insects and then ocean animals and then all of a sudden school will be out! I will send the schedule of dates for May next week.
Please remember that we have a half day tomorrow (Thurs) and pick up is at NOON and no school on Friday.
And just fyi, I have a Dr. appt on Wed. April 24th, so my class will be dismissed from Ms. Funk’s room which is door K.
Have a great rest of the week!
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