Sunday, January 26, 2020

Week of January 27

Hi Families!

Winter NWEA testing will continue this week in our classroom.


Monday 1/27 (B Day):
-Media Center - don't forget your library books!
-Pennies for Patients begins (goes through 2/14 - Please see information below)

Tuesday 1/28 (C Day):
-Art

Wednesday 1/29 (D Day):
-Late Start
-Art and P.E.

Thursday 1/30 (E Day):
-Music

Friday 1/31 (F Day):
-Music
-Class color day: 4th graders wear blue!

Upcoming important dates:
1/13-1/31 - Winter NWEA testing
1/29 - Late Start
2/5 - Late Start
2/12 - Late Start
2/14 - Valentine's Day Party and Ice Skating at Howard Ice Arena
2/27 - LEGO Night in the Brown School Gym 6-7:30pm

A few reminders and things to note:
1. The February Class Calendar will come home on Friday in Friday Folders.
2. Please be sure to look through your students Friday Folder every Friday, sign the bright green Friday Folder form and return to school on Monday.



While we make it a point to celebrate kindness at Brown School everyday, next week is officially Kindness Week!  We will all be "Kindness Spotters"...looking for those random acts of kindness  around us. 
In February, we will be celebrating again with a traditional Valentine's Day class party! If you'd like to sign up to chair or help out, please click here for the sign up page: VALENTINE PARTY SIGN-UP.  Our party will be held on Friday, February 14th, from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m, as we will be ice skating in the morning at the Howard Ice Arena, and then have gym and art at the end of the day.  The kids will be exchanging Valentines (I'll send home a Valentine list in the Friday Folder this week) and celebrating friendship!  

Morning meetings!  Have you heard about our morning meetings?  Every day, we begin our day with a morning meeting.  We gather together to go through our agenda, celebrations and any concerns we have:
1) School or classroom news/announcements
2) Celebrations!  Students can share things that are going on in their lives...sports, family birthdays, school accomplishments....all kinds of happy news! Each student has a letter day where they get to shine!
3) Mindfulness and Success Hotline We talk about mindful seeing, breathing, etc. and discuss ways to handle stressful situations. We also talk about the success hotline message that Mrs. Hassenger listens to each morning.
It's been a great way to start our mornings!
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Part of our Daily 5 experiences each week include "Word Work".  Not only do students build working vocabulary with 4 new words each week to define and use, they are practicing naming synonyms and adding illustrations with tech skills. Word Work is done on Google Slides and posted on our Google Classroom page. Students submit their work and view their scores digitally as well.

NWEA - We've wrapped up our winter NWEA in the area of math, and will finish the reading portion beginning Monday 1/27. We need to have it completed by Friday. Remember...breakfast is important for brain power! Let's come to school charged up and ready to go!


Please don't forget to view the weekly Brown School Blog for additional information: https://brownschoolnewssaintjoseph.blogspot.com/

Mrs. Hassenger

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