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CALENDAR OF EVENTS May 8-14 State Testing Window (3rd – 6th Grade) May 17 Field Day (Please wear tennis shoes and sunscreen) May 23 Students’ Last Day; Awards Ceremonies Primary: 7:45-8:45 AM Intermediate: 9:30-11:30 AM
(Final report cards will be given out AFTER each awards ceremony on May 23)
REMINDER: please have all library books returned, or make arrangements for pay- ment of lost books, as soon as possible (before May 23). All school-owned textbooks will also need to be returned before students leave on the 23rd. Thank you.
Richardsville Elementary School May 10, 2013 Volume 3, Issue 30 Ms. Cash (ext. 4330) Ms. Keown (ext. 4358) Mr. Strode (ext. 4345)
May 2013
IN THE NEWS
• SPECIAL AREAS NEXT WEEK: Cash: Library/Art Strode: Music/Art Keown: PE/Guidance
Please remind your children of the following for Proactive PE: 1. Wear tennis shoes (it is for their safety and for maximum move-ment) 2. Wear shorts under dresses/skirts. 3. Leave jewelry at home or in classroom (lots of issues with students wearing
rings to PE-if finger gets jammed or broken, finger could swell and ring could not be gotten off in time). Jewelry also gets in the way of movement, get broken or scratch others.
• SUMDOG WEB SITE Free math and Language Arts games are here – and aligned to the current educational standards. Parents may sign up for free access. Go to http://www.sumdog.com/parents for more details.
• JUMP ROPE FOR HEART Students received thank you gifts this week for the Jump Rope for Heart event. Richardsville students raised $1282.80 to help those with special hearts. Congratulations to Adam Comer in Mrs. Sams room – he was top school fundraiser with $125!
• SUMMER BASKETBALL CAMP Little Lady Raider Baskeball Camp June 17-‐21, 2013 in the gym of WEHS, 8:00 AM-‐11:00 AM. Cost iss $50 for 5 days. Free T-‐shirts. Contack Coach Aaron Richmond to apply or for more questions.
ACADEMICS JOURNALS: Journal prompts will reflect the topic of each story and will occasionally be free writing.
READING: We will begin Unit 5 with One Dark Night. Please help your child practice reading the story at home. Vocabulary words: (review words during Unit 5): angry, door, second, watch, warm, certainly, either, great, laugh, water, worst, you’re.
Focus Skills: (Unit 5, One Dark Night): Prefixes un-/re-/pre-/dis-, realistic fiction, sequence, graphic organizer, pronouns (he, it, we, they, she).
Spelling words: (Test every 2 Weeks) One Dark Night: unsafe, preheat, rerun, disappear, unlock, retie, rewind, unpack, unplug, regroup, preschool, disagree, prehistoric, unfortunate, reunion.
CALENDAR: “Every Day Counts” Calendar Math will continue to be a part of our Math curriculum.
MATH: We will be working in Chapter 7: Time and Money.
HOMEWORK: Spelling Practice for One Dark Night.
FINAL EDITION OF 2013