Parent Reminder

• A note went home in a previous Thursday envelope requesting pictures for Angie to use in creating the 5th grade slide show for graduation. Our room has had a dismal response to that request. I am imploring you to please send Angie one photo of your child as a baby (before 1 year) and one photo of your child as a five year old. If you could e-mail her the pictures digitally that would help. Her e-mail address is bunday_an@4j.lane.edu. If you don’t have digital pictures or access to a scanner, then send Angie the two photos in an envelope clearly labeled and she will scan them and return the photos intact. Thanks for your cooperation. Let’s help Angie get the slide show well on its way.
  

Parent Reminder

• No school on Monday, March 31
  

Poem of the Week (3/31-4/4)

Praying Mantis

That praying mantis over there
Is really not engaged in prayer.
That praying mantis that you see
Is really preying (with an “e”).
It preys upon the garter snake.
It preys upon the bumble bee.
It preys upon the cabbage worm,
The wasp, the fly, the moth, the flea.
(And sometimes, if its need is great,
It even preys upon its mate.)

With prey and preying both so endless,
It tends to end up rather friendless
And seldom is commended much
Except by gardeners and such.

By: Mary Ann Hoberman

Spelling List (3/31-4/4)

1. unable
2. discover
3. report
4. disaster
5. unaware
6. remind
7. televise
8. television
9. inspect
10. inspection
11. react
12. reaction
13. tense
14. tension
15. correct
16. correction
17. promote
18. promotion
19. express
20. expression
    

Parent Reminders

• 5th grade students will be taking their second chance at state assessments in both reading and math. This is an opportunity for them to improve their score and for some to meet standards for the first time. Please encourage them to try their best and be sure they get enough sleep and come to school nourished. We will be testing during the time before first recess on Tuesday-Thursday this week.
• There will be no spelling list this week because of state testing.
• Look for information sheets brought home by your child that give you guidelines on how to help them make healthy choices in life. Most are printed from our Michigan Model Health Program. Children heading into the middle years are particularly susceptible to adverse influences. Stay involved in your child's life!
  

Poem of the Week (3/10-3/14)

Who Am I?

by Felice Holman


The trees ask me,
And the sky,
And the sea asks me
Who am I?

The grass asks me,
And the sand,
And the rocks ask me
Who I am.

The wind tells me
At nightfall,
And the rain tells me
Someone small.

Someone small
Someone small
But a piece
of
it
all.