A new year has begun! I am enjoying getting to know each of your children.

We will have our first school mass next Wednesday, September 16th. Please join us any time you are able at 9:00 in Trinity Hall.

I am sending a reading log home for September. The official Pizza Hut Book It! program begins in October. I will ask the children to keep a reading log each month at home and bring it in at the end of the month. I encourage you to read with your child, too. From time to time I will assign a book report. Usually at the beginning of the month to be done by the end of the month with a project. The time spent reading for their report should all be logged on their book log.

This week is busy! The spring concert is this Thursday and the children have been rehearsing. They all sound fantastic singing tunes from Broadway!

Next week Thursday we will have the final math test of the year as we wrap up angles, polygons, perimeter and area. This will be an open book test.

May 29th is Track and Field Day. This is a fun day! Please have your child wear a t-shirt with their team color if possible. Water bottles are good, too.

This week is our final spelling list and test of this school year!! Yeah!

The Little Flowers group had a Bake Sale this weekend and made money to give to the charity My Starving Children. Way to go girls!! I am proud of you all.

Please remember to send back the permission slip for May Crowning on May 13th. It is a gold colored sheet. Thank you!

Our Literature Circles are moving along nicely! We are in three groups reading The Thing About Georgie, Because of Winn Dixie and The Lacemaker and the Princess. All three are great books and the book group experience is a great way for the children to share their "take" on the chapters read. Ask your child about their book circle.

What a lovely weekend it was! Thank you again for your donations and support for the Parkinson's Walk on May 2nd. To have such a beautiful day was a blessing.

Mrs. Gramstad is inviting parents to her class for an "open class" on May 18th. Our class meets at 9:30 on Monday, May 18th.

I am sending a letter home this week, April 30th...with the hope that you will commit my blog address to memory!!!

Today we took the Chapter 7 math test. The children could use their multiplication charts and counters. I did tell them that the next test would be without the charts! Memorize those facts!!

We have eggs in an incubator to see if they will hatch! At 5 and 10 days we will try to candle them and see inside. As we study Life Cycles, this fits in nicely. We are also observing beans and their parts: embryo, seed coat and stored food.