Update 5/30

Dear Fantastic Families,

I sincerely appreciate your time and engagement as students shared their writing and their gratitude last Thursday. Thank you for indulging my sentimental side in our circle together.

Last week the class was able to enjoy two performances. One, the fourth grade performance of Gold Dust or Bust, featured many siblings of class students and was full of both information and fun! The other, a professional performance of Peter and the Wolf, was amazing by all accounts. Reflections were written about the performances and we will capitalize on the musical elements in instruction this week. 

Volunteers

I thank the generous gifts of time and talents that were given in support of students during the year. We are now officially concluded with volunteers. With the variability of scheduling during these last two weeks it is less than pragmatic to maintain our volunteer schedule.

Homework

In lieu of regular spelling words and homework for the next two weeks, your student is asked to research a topic of interest and prepare a simple presentation for the class. Directions will be sent home tomorrow or can be found here. You may help as little or as much as you like, as long as it is their project and their learning. I am expecting amazing kid-prepared poster boards, speeches, dioramas, etc, of great fun and variety!  

Dancefest

Send in a hand towel with your child’s name on the tag as soon as possible to use as a prop for our dance. On the day of Dancefest, June 8th, have your child wear Hawaiian/tropical print clothing. Kindergarten dancing begins at 11:30 followed by an all school picnic and then the rest of the grades around 12:30.  

Summer Birthdays and Friendship day

We will celebrate all our summer birthdays with our usual silly celebration. Let’s hold off on the treats for this day as there will be lots of little goodies coming home because it’s…..Friendship Day! 

To celebrate the friendships we’ve made, maintained,  and grown this year we will be doing a series of fun friendship activities. Please send in 24 tokens of some kind to be distributed to the class. These can be homemade, bought, written, drawn….whatever you’d like. No treats please.

Important dates

6/1 Countdown to Summer after school PTA celebration

6/6 summer birthday celebrations and friendship day

6/7 Lifeguard presentations

6/8 Dancefest! Parents invited!

6/9 last day of school