Last week of April

Hello families!

I hope you had a great weekend!  We are getting ready to start off a new week and we have a lot going on at school. 

First off, we said good-bye to Mrs. Rutter on Friday.  We had a party for her at the end of the day.  The kids (and you) were so generous to bring in books to start a library for Mrs. Rutter.  We filled a crate with around 100 books!  She wanted to make sure you knew how grateful she was.  One of her greatest concerns was how she was going to start up a library of her own and we got her well on her way.  Thank you!

We have the week off from testing.  (Yea!)  We will begin MAP testing next week and test one morning each week for 3 weeks (Reading, Math, and Language).  I will let you know the days as soon as they are finalized.

I have updated the "Looking Ahead" page with this week's spelling skill, etc.  Let me know if you have any questions.  We are going to be finishing up our classification iMovie trailers this week.  I hope to get those uploaded next week to share with everyone.  They were a fun group activity that the students worked on this past week.  I have uploaded a few pictures from the fish release as well.  Check them out under the "Trout in the Classroom" link.

We will be taking a break from science now and getting back to Idaho history.  We are starting on state symbols.  Your student should know most of them by the end of the week!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Spenner