Field trips, book orders and report cards, Oh, My!

 Welcome back from our Thanksgiving break. I hope everyone had time to relax and spend time with family.

There are many things happening this week that have a deadline.

The first thing is book orders. They are due tomorrow. You can place an online order on the scholastic website and enter my code H48J8. If you spend $25 and then use the code reads, you can get a freebook for up to $5. Forms were sent home and those can be sent in tomorrow with a check made out to Scholastic. If you want anything to remain a secret  please let me know and I'll do what I can to make it discreet so they won't know.

Field trip permission slips and $15 are due on Thursday. We have our field trip to the state house on The 15th. Please remember that you will need to provide a bag lunch for your child unless you submit the lunch request with the permission slip. 

There is a 4th-5th grade dance on Friday. It is from 5-6 and costs $5. Students must buy tickets ahead of time as tickets will not be sold at the dance. There is an email that went home with more details. Please reach out if you have questions. 

Friday 12/9 is the deadline for our canned food drive. Thank you to those who have donated thus far. Report cards also go out that day. 

Thank you to all those who came to parent teacher conferences. There are a few people that I wasn't abe to connect with, and if you'd like to do that please reach out to me. If there is a need, I'll have another afternoon that we can meet. 

Homework went out yesterday and is still due on Friday.

 

Conference and Homework Info And Canned Food Drive Kick-Off

Parent-teacher conferences are this week. If you haven't signed up for a slot yet, please do so. If no conference is needed, please fill in the Thursday slots. I will be sending out zoom links this weekend if you signed up for one. If I am not on at the start of our time, please be patient. I will be with you as soon as I am able. If you signed up for a phone conference I will call you at the number you provided. Please be aware that the school phone # is listed as private and some homes do not accept calls from private callers. If I can not get through I will send you an email notification letting you know I was unable to reach you. 

Sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0A4AAAA829A2FC1-parent

As for the in-person conferences. You are invited to park in the bus loop along 114. Our wing is the 1st one to the left of the courtyard. We will have signs posted for the 4th gr. wing. Please come in and wait in the hall outside my classroom. If I am running late, please knock to let me know you are there. 

Since we had a 3-day week last week, our normal schedule was not followed. Instead, we worked on science research projects and we learned about habitats and the different adaptations animals have to survive. The kids got to create their own made-up animal and research a real one. Because of the change, we did not have spelling tests this week, so if your child did their homework last week, they will not have any due this week. We will have the spelling test this Friday and there will be no homework over Thanksgiving break. If your child did not complete their homework, they have another week to work on it. 

Many of you have already returned the field trip permission slips. Thank you. If you haven't done so yet, you still have some time, but I just don't want anyone to forget. This is our first field trip in years so we are very excited to have this again. 

A form went home about a free eye screening for your child. If you are interested, please return that form this week. If you need a new form or field trip permission slip please let me know. 

Thursday we had a Veterans Day assembly. The children did a wonderful job listening to the presenters and the kids that performed. We learned many things about the day and about the different branches of the military. 

Last week began the annual canned food drive to help collect non-perishable food items for the local food pantry.  You can bring in non-perishable food items until Dec. 9th. Prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place classrooms. Help us help the community!

And coming up next week the 4th grade will be having NH Day! We will team up with all the 4th grade to rotate through different stations and learn about NH. 

The kids also earned 20 compliments from other teachers and earned another class reward day. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we will be celebrating. the kids will choose what the reward is this week. They'll let you know what they decided.