April 10, 2015

Current Events: Welcome back after our short Spring Break. Hopefully, we are all recovered and ready to complete the year. Thanks for getting the field trip notes returned, if you have not yet done so, please send in your child’s permission. Remember, tonight is the last movie night. Come at 6:30 with your family to watch, “101 Dalmatians,” in the cafeteria.

Language Arts: We continue to work on our pictures and final copies about spring. The children also wrote and drew in their journals about their spring break activities.

Math: I appreciate the practice that you helped your child to complete the money skill sheets that went home. We may have some more Math homework practice to build our fluency with addition/subtraction facts to 18. Finding the value of a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters have been the skills targeted. Playing money games, making and counting a collection of coins, and determining the value of solving different ways to find a given amount are skills that we have been practicing this week. Some children are being challenged to count change that includes the quarter value, too. On Monday and Wednesday, we had great fun playing money games with Mrs. Davis, our instructional coach for BME. We had our test on money today, and our next focus will be fractions—1/2, ¼, & 1/3.

Science: This week we have been busy getting our aquatic habitats set up and inhabited by guppies and snails. Once we got the gravel and water in the tanks, the children compared 2 water plants—elodea and cabomba, which were added to the tanks. Then, the children compared the guppies and found that the male guppies were much more colorful than the female guppies. Today, the children added the snails and learned about the role of the snail in the tank.

Rotation Schedule:

J  Monday, April 13: Day 5 – Computer

J  Tuesday, April 14: Day 6- Art & Music

J  Wednesday, April 15: Day 1– P.E.

J  Thursday, April 16: Guidance

J  Friday, April 17: Music

Over, please..

Upcoming Events:

J  Tuesday, April 14th: Field Trip to Food for America at Buffalo Gap High School 8:30-11:30. Please dress your child in layers and tennis shoes—no sandals. Also, CiCi’s Pizza night for BME.

J  Friday, April 17th: Science Fair Night in the cafeteria from 5; 30-7:30.

J  Friday, April 24th: Cub Cash Bash –On this day, the 1st Graders will get to purchase ice cream for .75. Also, end of the 5th Grading period.

Spring Reminders:

J  Halter tops, spaghetti straps, and muscle shirts are not allowed to be worn to school.

J  Tennis shoes are needed for daily play. There’s less injury to feet, toes, and ankles if the children wear their tennis shoes for daily school activities.

J  Have your child to keep a light sweater/sweatshirt in his/her book bag because temperature inside the school building does vary—sometimes greatly. Thus, your child can add a layer if the air conditioning is too cold once it gets started.

Please stop by and look at the many items that have been found at school. These items are on a table and in the lost and found bin near the rear handicap doorway entrance. You may not have missed the item yet, but seeing it may jog your memory that it’s been missing.

The Augusta County School Board does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, or gender in its programs and activities. The following persons have been designated to handle inquires regarding non-discrimination policies.

Douglas W. Shifflett, Jr., Ed.D.

Title IX Coordinator

Asst. Superintendent for Personnel

P.O. Box 960

Verona, VA 24482