Dear Parents:

Our classroom could use a few things:

Kleenex boxes (so sorry, flu season hit us hard!)

toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls for our Secret Garden Party (as many as you can offer)

Please make sure your students come to school with Across Five Aprils by Thursday, March 1st.

ELA:

Ago, actum (L) do, act, drive, perform

•        Derivatives to use: Act, agent, agile, navigate, coagulate, prodigal 

Pendo, pensum (L) hang down, weigh, consider, judge

•        Derivatives to use: Pensive, suspend, suspense, expensive, expend  

Hyper (G) above, overly, beyond

•        Derivatives to use: Hyperbole, hyperactive, hyperglycemia, hyperventilate

Hypo (G) under, below

•        Derivatives to use: Hypodermic, hypothermia, hypochondria, hypoallergenic, hypothesis

Spelling words: responsible, response, application, apply, difficulty, difficult, scene, science, descend, descent

Math: We will conclude and test students on the area unit. The area test will be on Friday, March 2nd.

History: We will conclude and test students on the the Westward Expansion unit. The test will be on Thursday, March 2

Science: We will continue our study of the skeletal system. 

Spanish:  Test for Unit 3 is on Friday

Literature: We will conclude The Secret Garden. Students are not required to work on their alphabet posters over the weekend unless they would like to get a head start. I will give them a couple of days in class next week to work on it. Due date is Wednesday, February 28th. 

Please signup to help out for Field day - Here is the link:   

2nd-5th: signup.com/go/dHAJZAb

Also, We need to secure a classroom “Water Parent” who will be responsible for bringing a rolling cooler for our students’ water bottles. The “water parent” will travel with our class during Field Day. There is no slot for that on the sign-up link provided—those slots are for actually running the stations, setting up and cleaning up.  Let me know personally if you can help us out in this way.

I would like to celebrate Mr. McBrien's upcoming wedding.  As part of our celebration I would like each student to contribute to a book I am planning to put together and I need parent help in doing this.  Could you please help your student type out some "marriage advice" for Mr. McBrien.  Students could also include what they see him being good at thus focusing on his virtues and honoring him at the same time.  I would like each student to contribute to the book.  The entry should be typed in font size 14 and printed on a regular 8 1/2  X  11 sheet of paper and brought into me by March 1st. 

 I would also like to present him with a gift card from the class.  If you would like to contribute to the card please send in your contribution by March 2nd.

Thank you for helping to make this special.