1st Annual Frederick County Social Studies Fair March 21-22, 2014

The 1st Annual Frederick County Social Studies Fair will be on March 21- 22, 2014.  This will be held at Walkersville Elementary School.  If you would like to submit a project, you must register by March 14 at noon.  The fair is also open to the public for viewing.  Information about this can be found on http://education.fcps.org/socstudieselem/socstudiesfair.

Valentine's Day Party

Our Valentine's Day party is scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2014.  It will be held in our classroom from 12:45-1:45 p.m.  Please allow extra time to  check in for security purposes.  

Children are allowed to give Valentine's cards to other students.  If your child would like to give out cards, they must give a card out to each student in the class.  A letter will be going home soon with information about this.

Family Flags and Winter Break

Wow!  I can tell that all of the children worked really hard on creating and practicing their family flag presentations.  They look wonderful and the children learned so much more about one another.  

Winter break is coming up. If you would like to view the upcoming calendar for days off or schedule changes, you can check the Calendar at a Glance or the Calendar Handbook.  

Friday, December 20th is a 2 hour early dismissal.  The children still have library scheduled for Friday.

Family Flag

Family flags have been sent home with each student in Kindergarten.  Attached are directions on how to complete this activity.  All flags are due Monday, December 9, 2013.  We will begin to present them that day and will be displaying them outside of our classroom so that other classes can see your child's hard work.

 

The project will be evaluated based on the criteria listed below.  While you are welcome to guide and assist your child, most of the work should be produced by the student. 

 

Visual Aid

Neat and organized visual aid

Pictures are labeled

 

Oral Presentation

Speaks loud and clear (good voice projection)

Makes eye contact with the audience

Shows evidence of having practiced the speech at home

Students can explain/describe the visual aid

 

 

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about this project.



American Education Week

November 18 – 22 is American Education Week.  Parents are invited to visit classrooms at these times:

Kindergarten – Thursday, November 21 ~ 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

 1st Grade – Monday, November 18 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

2nd Grade – Tuesday, November 19 ~ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

3rd Grade – Wednesday, November 20 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

4th Grade – Friday, November 22 ~ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

5th Grade – Wednesday, November 20 ~ 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

 

 

Fall Conferences

Conferences are next week and our school schedule is changing.

The children will be arriving 4 hours late to school (the school doors open at 12:30 p.m. and instruction begins at 12:55 p.m.) on Monday, November 25, 2013.  No lunch will be served at school on this day.  The children will then go home at their normal time, beginning dismissal at 3:25 p.m.

On Tuesday, November 26th, 2013, school will close 3.5 hours early.  This means that children arrive at school no later than 8:55 a.m. (the doors open at 8:30 a.m.) and dismissal begins at 12:00 p.m.  Lunch will be served at school; there is a scheduled lunch time from 10:15 – 10:40 a.m.  Children with lunches from home will be eating in the classroom and children who are purchasing lunches will be eating in the cafeteria.  Due to this scheduling change, the school asks that visitors not attend lunch on this day.  Thank you for your ongoing support.

 

 If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.  Our conference time is for only 15 minutes, so we have a lot to get through in a short amount of time.  Please make sure to arrive for your child's conference on time, I have back-to-back conferences both days and will be making sure that I stick to this agenda.

 

 

Fall Party

The Fall Party was lots of fun.  The children made necklaces, played a great game, and had yummy food.  Thank you to everyone for all of your help and support.  As one child said, "This is the best day of my life!"  This was definitely an experience for all of the children to remember.