This week, Upper had a fun time! In Geography, students hid stones on our campus last week. Students used the cartography skills they had learned to create a map of their stone and then traded maps with others to follow the map. In Literature Studies, students recently began their third group rotation of reading Holes, Maniac McGee, or The BFG. Ask your child which novel they’ve enjoyed most and why.
Midweek, we celebrated Valentine’s Day with a board game in the morning. Students enjoyed socializing with their friends while learning new games or having a chance to play an old one.
We ended the week much differently than any other week. Mr. Dana has been tirelessly updating our classrooms for weeks. He and a parent volunteer have been putting some finishing touches and adding surprises to both classrooms. This weekend, since it’s a three-day weekend, our old tile floor and carpets will be pulled up, and we will have a beautiful new laminate floor laid and ready for when we return to school on Tuesday. To work in such a tight timeframe, Mr. Dana, Mr. Zech, and Mr. Fox cleared both Upper classrooms of all furniture so the flooring work could start Friday afternoon. We ended Friday afternoon sitting in one of our empty rooms, fascinated with how large the room appeared. Students are looking forward to returning on Tuesday to see our new floors.
Reminders:
- No schools Monday, 2/19, in observance of Presidents Day
- No vocabulary is due, but the review unit test will be on Thursday
- The field trip to The Birmingham Children’s Theater is Friday, 2/23. Return permission forms and payment ASAP
- Play practice resumes this week
- Join us for Parent’s Night on Tuesday, 2/27. It will be a great opportunity to see our updated classrooms completed.
- Sunday, 3/3, Community Open House
- Week of 3/4, Spring Book Fair
- No school on Friday, 3/8, for the AMS convention
- Saturday, 3/9, PTO Trivia Night and Dinner Fundraiser
Work Cycle
Valentine’s Day and Other Fun
Upper Classroom Progress
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