Weekly Update 02/11/11

Important Dates
February 14 - 18 Penny Battle to benefit Riley Hospital
Monday, February 14 - Valentine's Day (no party); Boomer convocation - WEAR TENNIS SHOES
Friday, February 18 - All-Pro Dad's 7:45 a.m.
Monday, February 21 - President's Day; No School
Wednesday, February 23 - Spirit Day Hat Day; snacks for $0.50
Friday, February 25 - Yearbook order forms due
Monday, February 28 - February Book-It Forms due
Wednesday, March 2 - Chick Fil-A Chicken biscuits for sale $2.50
Saturday, March 5 - Spring Fling
Thursday, March 10 - Spring Pictures
Friday, March 18 - All-Pro Dad's 7:45 a.m.; Report cards available electronically
Friday, March 25 - Spring Party 2:30
March 28 - April 1 - Spring Break...enjoy!

Important Announcements:
*Penny Battle starts next week. Any money donated will go towards Riley Hospital. The grade level that earns the most will have an extra recess and a special spirit day. Pennies count as negative points towards other grade levels, and all other money counts as positive points for our grade level.
*Spring Fling will be held on Saturday, March 5th. The time is from 11:00 - 1:00. If you are interested in volunteering to help with the Spring Fling, please contact Melissa Myers at myers243@yahoo.com. The shifts will be 10:45 - 12:00 or 12:00 - 1:15. Help cleaning up immediately following the Spring Fling is also appreciated. Our classroom basket theme is "Snacks." This basket will be at the Spring Fling for parents to bid on during the silent auction. Ideas for the basket include: popcorn, Chex Mix, fruit snacks, your favorite snack...be creative! If you donate items for the basket, your child will receive a ticket for each item donated. These tickets can be used to play games at the Spring Fling. The tickets are usually distributed the Friday before Spring Fling. In addition to basket donations, the Spring Fling will need 2-liter bottles (no red soda), full size candy bars, bite-size candy bars, fun-size candy bars, baked goods for the Cake Walk, and suckers. The baked goods would not be brought in until Friday, March 4th. The other donations can be sent in at anytime and we will collect them at school. If you donate items for the games, your child will also receive a ticket for each item donated (1 bag of fun-size candy bars - 1 ticket; 2 liter bottle - 1 ticket, etc.). Thanks for your donations!
*A huge thank you for all of the Kleenex donations this week. I really appreciate it!

A Look at Next Week
Reading
Story: The Emperor's Egg
Skill: fact and fiction
English
Words that compare
Spelling
Suffixes: - ing, -ly
Writing
Personal stories
Math
Comparison number stories, graphing data, number stories and diagrams, subtracting with Base-10 Blocks
Social Studies
Unit 3: Looking at the Earth