Wow! I feel so loved!

Thank you for all the beautiful flowers I received today. My desk is overflowing!

Happy Spring Break!

I hope you're enjoying this extra time with your precious child!  Hopefully, we'll get warmer spring-like weather soon!  Remember to keep reading!

Reading Idea

This year's spring musical is a fairy tale extravaganza! If you're looking for ideas for your next at-home read to share with your child, try fairy tales. We began reading and discussing The Three Little Pigs in class today, and it was fun to see how excited my "almost-third-graders" got every time that wolf huffed and puffed!

Square Art

This year's Square Art orders are due Wednesday, March 27th. You can place the order online, or you can send your check and order form to school with your child.

Music Money

Please remember to send in $3 for your child's spring musical costume. As always, it's sure to be a terrific show. The kids are going to be adorable bakers!

What are you reading?

As you know, reading at home is more than just homework. The more time children spend reading with someone they love, the more they will love reading. As the school year winds down and we prepare for summer, please be thinking about what you can do to keep your child reading over the summer. (I'll be posting more about this in the next few weeks.)
I would love to know what books you've read and enjoyed with your child this year. Do you have any books you think other students and parents would enjoy? Please comment with your book suggestions and feelings about how reading at home has gone for you and your child this year. I'd love to hear your ideas!

Lights! Camera! Learning!

We learned three challenging new words today - transparent, translucent, and opaque. I've been impressed with how well the kids have done with such an abstract concept as light. We've learned that light is made of colors, and we see those colors as a rainbow when a prism bends light. Tricky, tricky science this week!