April 18 Scholastic Reading Club Orders Due
April 19 O&A to Oregon Zoo
April 20 Student-Led Conferences After School 4pm-7pm
April 21 Student-Led Conferences (No School)
April 21 Sunflower Garden Work Party 9am-12pm
April 24 SBAC Testing Begins
April 26 O&A to Jackson Bottom - Chaperones Needed
Important Calendar Note - Early O&A Departure on Wednesday, May 3rd 8:15am
Level 2 will travel to Haystack Rock (Oregon Coast) on 5/3/17. To maximize our time at the coast, we will need to leave FGCS by 8:30am! Please plan to drop your Plover off at 8:15am on this day.
Homework Due by April 20th
1. Read for at least 20 minutes every night.
2. Complete at least 30 minutes of math practice.
3. Complete at least 20 minutes of typing practice on Typing.com
4. Optional: Compete Opinion Paragraph of the Week assignment on Google Classroom.
Prompt: Do you think children should go to school all year or have a summer vacation? Support your opinion.
State (SBAC) Testing
Level 2 students will begin state testing on Monday, April 24th. Testing is administered in the computer lab in short sessions, and students have the opportunity to work on the same test over multiple sessions so they can work at their own pace. Please help support your Plover by: encouraging them to do their best, making sure they eat breakfast and bring a snack, and helping them get plenty of sleep. This week, we will discuss the English Language Arts (aka Reading and Writing) test and look at some sample questions together. Students will also have the opportunity to complete a practice test in the computer lab.
Upcoming Out and Abouts
This Wednesday, we are visiting the zoo to get a first-hand view of the fantastic ways that animals adapt to their habitat. We'll meet with a zoologist to hear about how animals change through their lifecycle and how wildlife biologists use this knowledge to protect them. Next week, we will visit Jackson Bottom Wetlands. We'll learn from some experts how biodiversity keeps an ecosystem healthy. We'll compare forests and wetlands, and see how the Tualatin River ties them all together.
Volunteer Opportunities
Out & About Chaperones - Wednesday, April 26th - Jackson Bottom Wetlands
Library Chaperones - 2-3 chaperones needed for our next library trip (5/1)
I would like to have some extra snacks available on SBAC testing days, so if you are able to donate a healthy snack (fruit, cheese sticks, granola bars, or something else easy to distribute and eat) for the class, sign up on the breakfast donation page for any of the following testing days: Monday 4/24, Tuesday 4/25, or Thursday 4/27
Scholastic Reading Clubs
Class Code: L79X9
Order Due Date: 4/18/17 by 9pm
You can view this month's selections and submit your order online at scholastic.com/readingclub using our class activation code: L79X9. When you place your order online, you'll help earn FREE books for our class! The books typically arrive about 10 days after I submit the class orders.
Weekly Review - Written By The Plovers
Imagine a special, peaceful place at our school with lots of plants, grass, trees, rocks, garden beds, dirt, fruit, and a river. It's not just in your imagination - it's going to be real and it's going to be next to our classroom! Last week, we helped Erin plant some new plants in the Sunflower Garden. Erin talked to all of the classes to get ideas about how to make the small Sunflower Garden better. We even took all the grape vines off our ramp and now we have an idea to hang birdhouses there! To plant the new flowers, we worked in groups to dig a hole, massage the roots of the new plant, add compost and mulch to the soil, and name our plant. We only had to add a little water because the garden is pretty wet this spring! This Friday, there will be a garden work party to help with even more Sunflower garden improvements. Here is a message from Erin:
Celebrate Earth Day this Friday, April 21st by lending a hand to beautify our school garden. Join us anytime between 9-noon(during conferences). Gloves, tools and snacks provided! Level 2 students and up may attend unaccompanied if they can work independently. Contact Erin with questions, [email protected]