From Mrs. Collins' Desk

The students gave a tremendous performance on Valentine's Day!  Each one delivered their lines perfectly and the soloists sang beautifully.  I am so proud of them all!  Thank you for coming and seeing the result of all their hard work and practices.  Mrs. Matherley does such a wonderful job with our students.  


Thank you for supporting the school's magazine fundraiser.  The students are earning many cool prizes and our class has won the "Big Dog"  several days!


In reading, students are finishing their Book Clubs books and writing a journal response, which are due next Wednesday.  They have thoroughly enjoyed the Book Clubs and are wanting to begin a new Book Club soon.  Next week, we will begin Unit 5 in our reading textbook.  We will be reading The Fox and Guinea Pig.  The reading skills that will be covered are sequencing of events, vocabulary, making inferences, and using context clues.
Word Wall will be assessed on Wednesday and the story quiz will be on Friday.

Science News from Mrs. Baugh:  In science, today, the students had the best time getting their hands on my mineral collection.  They found out that the mineral, graphite, is what we use in pencils as they used large pieces of it to sketch pictures, and that talc, which is the softest mineral, could easily be scratched with their fingernails and is the main ingredient in baby powder.  We studied many more minerals, and the students were fascinated by the facts.  This study is coming to a close, and the students received a study sheet today for the Chapter 5 Lessons 1-3 test which will be this Tuesday, February 21.