Week of April 7

Homework

Big Word: a t v a i n o c
Number: Count how many toes are in your house. Show how you solved these problems by making pictures.
Challenge: How many toes are there on your block?
Project: Take home parent packet for National Parks Theme Unit
Theme: Choose a national park to do your project on.

Welcome back from our long break! I know everyone is excited to get back to the learning of school. We have 10 weeks left and a lot to do in that time. I wanted to give everyone a heads up on what is coming up through the end of the year. Here is a list of events that should be put on everyone's calendar.

Friday, April 11 Field Trip with Buddies (Play after Play)
Monday, April 21 Swimming at Mt. Scott
Tuesday, April 22 Parent Information Night
Saturday, April 26 Volunteer work day for the classroom (9 am to noon)
Friday, May 2 OMSI Field Trip
Thur-Fri, May 8-9 Campout at Nehalem Bay with Brian's class
Saturday, May 10 Trillium Annual Auction
Tuesday, May 13 Rhododendrun Garden
Thursday, May 15 Trillium Service Day
Friday, May 30 K12 Learning Plan Exhibition and Hawaiian Luau
Week of June 2-5 INTENSIVES (Sign up to teach a class)
Friday, June 6 End of the Year POTLUCK at Megan's
Wednesday, June 11 Publishing Party
Friday, June 13 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Class Bike Ride at Noon

Field Trips
We are slowing down on the field trips but still have a few more planned. Please keep in mind that we do have swimming two weeks from Monday and we will need drivers. This will be the last swimming of the year. Please check the sign up board for updated information on upcoming trips and opportunities to drive.

Conferences
Thank you to all of you who met with me for your conference. I think that we have created some great learning plans and the kids are going to be working hard to show off what they have done at the end of May. I really appreciate people showing up on time, being patient with me and rescheduling when necessary. If you haven't had your conference we can schedule one this week. Also, your student's learning plan is in your folder outside the room.

Theme Unit
Over the next few weeks we will be working on a National Parks project where each student will choose a national park to research and present to the class. This will involve some work on the parent end since it is very difficult to manage 20 different projects. You will be receiving a parent packet this week. Please ask your students for this information or talk to me if you do not have it by Wednesday. After studying the national parks we will be talking a lot about Native American cultures and students will be thinking about an independent project they can do on Native Americans.

Volunteer Work Day
On Saturday, April 26 we will have a class work day at Trillium. We will be painting, nailing, hanging and working on things for our class and for the playground in general. There will be many opportunities to volunteer and kids are invited to help out. It would be great if we had two parents volunteer to manage the kids who are not as helpful as the rest. I will see if the preschool room is available that day. There will be a job sign up list as the event nears, but if you can commit to this event then sign up on the appropriate field trip sheet.

Supplies
Please help our shortage of markers in our class. If you could all get your students a set of Crayola or any type of markers for them to use in the class that would be great. The community use markers have been ramshackled and are not very functional. Put your child's name on their markers and ask them to keep track of them. I will still have markers for community use but it is frustrating having so few. I wanted to get more, but to buy them for the whole class is pretty pricy. Any extras you have not being used at home would be helpful as well.

Wish List
These are some things that will be helpful in the class as we start to work on our projects and prepare for our auction project.

terracata planters
plain wood planter boxes
plastic spray paint
caps, caps, caps (we still need more for the project we want to do)
chalkboard paint
grout (dark, sanded)
extra unused paint
shoe boxes

Homework for Feb 11

This week's HOMEWORK
Sound: SH as in SHOP
Turn in Wednesday
Number: 8 or 64
Turn in Thursday
Big Word: S Y C E S O M T E
Turn in Friday
Theme: Students can continue to work on their publishing party stories at home.
Turn in anytime
Wacky Wednesday: Pajama Day or
Turn in Friday
Sharing: Share a small piece of electronics
Sharing is on Friday at 9:00

Swimming is on hold until Mt. Scott gets back to us about when we can come. It will probably be next week.

Homework Files

Here is the homework that you can print at home.

Number Homework
Big Word Homework
Sound of the Week Homework

Homework for January 18

Hello all,

I am trying to make homework more meaningful and consistent. For the next few weeks I will be asking students to attempt homework. Some may only choose one assignment a week which is fine (especially for the younger students). However, older students could probably do more. Don't stress about the homework too much but the activities are simply meant to help develop their skills and helps you, as parents, work with them on things they need to know. Here is what the homework will look like.

Sound/Letter of the week (mostly K or beginning reader) Turn in by Wednesday
Big Word (1st/2nd) Turn in by Friday
Number of the week (everyone) Turn in by Thursday

There will also be little extras that link with what we are currently studying in our theme units. Homework sheets can be picked up in the middle box on the top shelf near the entryway and turned into the top box. We will use homework during calendar time in the morning.

Thank you for your efforts in helping your students do this at home. I know life gets busy, but I really feel that homework is important for students if it is meaningful. If you ever feel the homework is not meaningful then please have a discussion with me so we can talk about other options that are more meaningful for your individual child.

Here is this week's HW

Sound of the week: B as in boy
Big Word letters: S R T N I O O L E U
Number of the week: 8 or 36
Theme: Think of five questions you would ask your community helper.

Homework-December 10

Homework is the same as last week for the most part.

Continue to work on spelling student names and use them in a story or sentences.
Fill out your food chart and bring it in by Friday.
Bring in a baby picture by Wednesday! I will be creating a board so we can guess who is who.
No Sharing on Friday!

Also, in the future, and this week, all necessary sheets will be located in the middle tray on top of the entryway shelf. The food chart and a class list are there this week. Also, you can turn homework into the top tray of the stack of three trays.

Thanks!

Homework for December 3-7

1) Fill out a food label chart of ten foods you enjoy eating.
2) Write 5 sentences about 10 different people in class.
3)Find out the value of your name using the following pattern.
a=1, b=2, c=3.....z=26
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Sharing Topic: A picture of you as a baby. (We will guess who is who)
Phonics: Bring in pictures or words of things that start with S
Spelling: Practice spelling student names.