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Weekly News & Homework: April 29th-May 3rd

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Weekly News: April 29-May 3 We are watching our caterpillars grow and grow! We think they will be in their chrysalis soon!   IT'S TIME! Community Service Projects are due and will be presented THESE  NEXT TWO WEEKS!  Please take some time to work on your presentations so that students are comfortable presenting in front of the class. You  may bring your projects to school ANY DAY this week or next week, but p lease make sure projects are turned in NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, May 10th. R emember that your community service project is a required part of our curriculum at Inland Leaders.  I am looking forward to seeing all of the projects.  Thank you! We are getting ready for our very special Mother's Day celebration on Friday, May 10th from 11:00-12:30 and hope all of you mommies can make it. If all of our mommies could please email me a "Mommy and Me" picture of your child with mommy (email: bbobrink@inlandleaders.com), we are using it for somethin

Weekly News & Homework: April 22nd-26th

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Weekly News: April 22-26 We had so much fun celebrating Easter together. On Monday, we will have a fun Earth Day celebration with fun Earth Day centers. We will also perform our Earth Day skits to our friends in class.   We are very excited to introduce our new class pets for the next few weeks: caterpillars! We will have the opportunity to watch their metamorphosis as they change from caterpillar, to chrysalis, to butterfly! Save The Date: We will be having a very special Mother's Day celebration on Friday, May 10th from 11:00-12:45. More information to come. I wanted to let you know early in case you need to take the time off work or find childcare for little ones. The school childcare fills up quickly on this day and is on a first come first serve basis.  I encourage you to find childcare for your little ones since this is a special celebration for mommies and their kindergarten student.  Thank you in advance for your understanding.  This is SUCH a special celebration

Weekly News & Homework: April 15th-19th

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Weekly News: April 15-19  We will celebrate Easter together on Friday with an egg hunt, some fun games, and bunny crafts!  Next Monday is Earth Day! All week long, we will be learning all about recycling and discussing ways to help the Earth. In reading groups, we will learn about readers theater and practice reading a special Earth Day skit, then perform that skit for our classmates (these will be coming home in book bags).  We will also have a special Earth Day Homework this week. Check out the Homework tab for more information!   Our Read-A-Thon week was so much fun and has come to an end. Please help your child count how many hours he or she has read (remember - 4 stars=1 hour!) on the Reading Rockstar Form, sign the bottom, and return to school next week. You may return these forms even if you did not collect pledges so that your child can be entered into the Read-A-Thon Participation Raffle for some fun prizes. If you DID receive pledges, make sure you also return you

Weekly News & Homework: April 8th-12th

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Weekly News: April 8-12  Electives and Success Academy will resume this week!  This week we are excited to start learning about life cycles as we study the life cycle of a tadpole becoming a frog. Our first ever Read-A-Thon is THIS WEEK! Monday, your child will be coming home with their "Reading Rockstar Form". For every 15 minutes your child reads, color a star. Be sure to send these back to school every day so students can color stars for minutes read at school as well. We are going to have fun reading every day in class. Keep collecting those pledges! Pledge forms, star forms, and money will be due back to school next Friday, April 19th. We are so excited to raise money for our partner school in Ghana! We will have fun reading themes next week to celebrate!!! Please see details below! Monday- Buddy Reading Day (I will pair students up with a buddy from Mrs. Marion's class!) Tuesday- Reading Outside Day! (We will go outside to read in the sunshin

Weekly News & Homework: April 1st-5th

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Weekly News: April 1-5 Welcome back to school! I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing spring break! I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday! We will have a short, but fun first week back together.  Electives and Success Academy will resume NEXT WEEK - Monday, April 8th. Next week (April 8-12) we are having our first annual school wide Read-A-Thon. The goal is to read as much as we can to raise money for our partner school in Ghana. Students will have the opportunity to receive pledges for how much time spent reading during the week at home and at school. More information will be coming home Tuesday.  Save The Date: We will be having a very special Mother's Day celebration on Friday, May 10th from 11:00-12:30. More information to come. I wanted to let you know early in case you need to take the time off work or find childcare for little ones. The school childcare fills up quickly on this day and is on a first come first serve basis.  I encoura