Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays!!!! I can't believe that we have reached December already.  Half a year has already flown by. Here are a few updates for the this week and next.

Accelerated Reader

Next Wednesday is the last day for students to make their AR goals. Many students have made their goals.  Some students are extremely close- just a few tests away. Please encourage your child to make their goals. It would be awesome to have the entire class at our AR Celebration. Special recognition goes to the following students who have already met their goals.

Ethan                         Malik                       Jayla                      Chaitra              
Donna Jean               Jana

Let's work extremely hard and meet those AR goals!!!!!

AR/Holiday Party

On Friday, December 19, 2014, we will have our AR Celebration as well as our class holiday party.  The AR Celebration will be held during the morning. Our class party will start at lunch time and go through much of the afternoon.  There will be stations to rotate through and we will probably watch a movie. Please assist us with our parties by making a donation of $5. It would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

Assessments

As we come to the end of the first semester, students are completing the semester by taking many assessments to measure their growth in many academic areas. Over the next two weeks, students will take math and language arts benchmarks, the STAR Test, the Scholastic Reading Assessment, and the Developmental Reading Assessment.  Along with these, there will also be asssessments in math on fractions, social studies on Susan B. Anthony and Fredrick Douglass, and language arts on compound sentences and suffixes. Please encourage your child to work extremely hard to show their growth in these areas. We have covered many topics, and now is the time to show what they have learned and just how brilliant they really are!

Field Trips

We have two field trips coming up in January and February. On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, we will go to the Tellus Science Museum. If you have not paid, the cost of this trip is $15.  The last day to pay for this trip is Wednesday, December 17, 2014. On February 26, 2015, we will go on our trip to the Little White House  in Warm Springs, Georgia. The cost of this trip is $30. We have had more seats to come available. Deposits can be made now on this trip with the remaining amount being due at the end of January.