I feel like I have so many things to type about! I don't even know where to start. These past few weeks have just been cruising by. For starters, I realize they're not our class, but I would like to give a quick shout out to Mrs. Dezember's and Mrs. Johnson's classes. Under my direction, they performed the second of our sixth grade plays for the year and did a fantastic job with it.
I also owe some kudos to our two students who won our class spelling bee and competed in the school bee: Congratulations Isaac and Ashlee! You guys did a great job!
We're on the verge of a long list of final things coming up and/or past. We presented our final book reports this week. We will be taking our final spelling test next week. We have a few final prjects going on right now: the country report for writing, and a constellation project for science. The kids should also be really close to finishing their puppets in Arts and Tech.
Remember that we have an optional parent teacher conferences coming up this next week, May 3 and 4. As I've said in previous e-mails, at this point in the year, anything I would have to say has been said, so if you have a reason to come and chat (ie. questions about jr. high, etc), feel free, but I'm not scheduling any of the times, so just drop in. I will be here until 5:00 both nights.
We sent home a flyer this week talking about a few DARE Days in the area. The first one coming up is DARE Days at Boondocks on May 4 and May 11. The second one was DARE Lagoon Day on May 25. DARE Lagoon Day is one that a lot of students choose to get checked out of school for. This is fine. Because of scheduling, however, this is also the day of our sixth grade talent show. What we usually ask anyway, is that the students show up to school so we can mark them here, and then get checked out, so that the state doesn't get upset by our attendance that day. This works out well, considering Lagoon doesn't even open until 9:30. The talent show is another incentive for the students to be here for at least that little bit and then get checked out for the day.
We are quickly approaching end-of-level testing. I think I sent the schedule in an e-mail, but I'll post it here as well so that it's permenantly referenceable:
Monday, May 7 - LA 1 - 10:30-11:45
Tuesday, May 8 - LA 2 - 8:45-10:00
Wednesday, May 9 - Math 1 - 2:15-3:30
Thursday, May 10 - Math 2 - 1:00-2:15
Monday, May 14 - Science 1 - 10:30-11:45
Tuesday, May 15 - Science 2 - 8:45-10:00
If at all possible, let's not have any tardies or absences these days so we don't need to worry about making them up.
The final end of year activites that you'll need to know about are the Graduation, which will take place on May 29 at 1:30 in the afternoon, and the 6th Grade Activity, which will be on May 30, which also the last day of school. As more details on these things are decided, I will make sure they get passed on.
I think that about covers it. The end of the year is so quickly approaching. I really can't believe it! I can't have waited this long to post a blog without at least mentioning my trip to Holland. It was great to finally get myself out of the country. I will leave you with the most awesome picture of a monkey from the Apenheul (a free range monkey zoo). Thanks for all you do to support us here in the classroom!
