April 8th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates:

Monday, April 8th - Friday, April 12th - Spirit Week Monday, April 8th - Reading at Senior CenterFriday, April 12th - Spring Party at Senior CenterFriday, April 19th - Midterms sent home

Spirit Week:

Tuesday, April 9th - Students may wear St. Augustine colors to school.Wednesday, April 10th - Students may wear clothes that do not match and will need to bring in board games to play with their buds.Thursday, April 11th - Students can wear their hair in a wacky way.Friday, April 12th - Students may dress in the theme of the Wild West.

Mini Relay for the Relay for Life:

This week  - collecting anything silver.  The winning class will receive an ice cream treat and an extra recess.

Week of April 15th - collecting anything (silver coins, pennies, paper money).  The winning class will watch a movie and be provided with popcorn and juice.

April 24th - Mini relay will take place.

This week in Class:

Math - finished with telling time and will begin hundreds value.  I have found a website to help the students work on telling time. http://www.technologyrocksseriously.com/2012/04/tick-tock-time.html

Reading -  vowel digraph ue (glue); consonant + er; fact and opinion

Science - Nutrition and digestion

Social Studies - Continuing to learn about the government, the leaders and their jobs

Health - Staying Well; what to do when feeling Ill; how to communicate; Preventing Illness; Illnesses that do not spread

Spelling - words that sound a like

       no         know
       to          two
       I            eye
       here       hear
       by          buy
       one        won
    www.spellingcity.com/ehovest

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Summer Birthdays
If your child has a summer birthday and would like to celebrate it during the school year, we can do that at any time.  Just let me in know in advance and I will clear an afternoon for birthday fun!