Dear Parents,
Happy Spring! I hope you all had a nice Spring Break! I can't wait to see and hear about the fun the children had last week.
We will begin our testing this week. We will take the ARMT, Alabama Reading and Math test first. The Reading part will be given on Wednesday and the Math part will be given on Thursday. Next week the students will take the SAT Reading test on Wednesday, March 31, and SAT Math on Thursday, April 1. The children have been working hard on test practice, but some are beginning to feel anxious. If your children are feeling nervous please assure them that if they try their hardest then they will do fine. All we ask of them is to try hard and to do their best. :)
Please make sure your child goes to bed early this week and eats breakfast on the days of testing to help them do their best. Also, make sure your child is not late for school. They need to arrive by 7:45.
I will not be giving any written homework during these weeks of testing. I will still encourage the children to read each night, but will not require them to record on a log. We will, however, begin having spelling lists again this week instead of vocabulary and will have a spelling test on Friday. We will study our words and complete spelling activities in class so all that I ask is that they practice their words on Thursday night.
I am so sorry that we had to cancel our field trip to Vulcan Materials. I know the children were terribly disappointed. Our next field trip will be on April 9 when we visit DeSoto Caverns. I will email you the new dates for Vulcan as soon as they are confirmed.
Our hamster, Princess, has started going home with friends on the weekend. Michael and Presley have taken her home, and Allie and Grace have asked to take her home next. If you are interested in bringing Princess home for the weekend please let me know. She has a new hamster cage and we are having fun watching her play in it.
We are out of paper towels and kleenexes. If you could pick up an extra roll or box for us we would greatly appreciate it. Lysol wipes would be a great help, too. Hopefully, strep and the stomach bug are not as rampant as they were before the break.
Spring pictures will be taken on Thursday, April 25. These are individual pictures only.
Have a great week!
Thank you,
Mrs. Chapman
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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