Friday, May 31, 2012

 Breaking News:

1. Choose turkey or ham for the last day. 

2. Send rubber boots tomorrow for walking in the stream.

3. Want to help at Fun Day? Call Pat Bannerman, our PE teacher to volunteer.

4. The Save-the-Pandas fundraiser ends tomorrow (Over $50.00 so far!)

5. Please send in the home-school journals so we can add them your child's scrapbook.

6. Please return any classroom books you still have.

7. Sharing for next week: Bring in your stuffed animal and tell why it is important to you. 
8. Ask your child to show you his/her Kidblog (go to the Horizon Team Page.) 

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Dear Parents and Families,

        We have been focusing on end-of-the-year assessments in class, here, and it's amazing how the days are flying by. I am so proud of all these kids have accomplished. Students are "sharing" this week on the theme of "What I have gotten better at,  what I need to keep working on, and what I realize I am great at."  In the midst of the end-of-the-year distractions and giddiness, these 1st and 2nd-graders are showing they have gotten smarter -- but also wiser.

        We were treated to Chinese lessons last week by a wonderful Chinese visiting-teacher named Tao. She has been in our CSSU district for a some weeks now, and it was her week to spend at ABS. What a delight to hear her accent, to feel her excitement at being here, and to watch her PowerPoint on the provinces of China.  Students also learned how to sing Happy Birthday and how to count to 10.

         We have Four Winds lesson tomorrow, the 1st of June.  We are studying streams. Everyone, please bring boots.

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Here are the upcoming events for these last two weeks of school:

Friday, June 1: Four Winds

Monday, June 4th:  Celebration of summer birthdays (1:45) 

Tuesday, June 5th: Step-Up Day (2nd-graders visit their new teachers at WCS)

Wednesday, June 6th: Maple Street park End-of-the Year Picnic (9-2). Lunch will be served at 11:00. Parents, come join us!

Thursday, June 7th: special assembly in the ABS gym (1:45-2:30).

Friday, June 8th: Fun Day at WCS 9-11 (this is like a "Field Day" from the old days. Students move by classroom through a dozen or so stations from water balloon toss to "knock over the milk jugs", etc.)  

Call Pat Bannerman at ABS if you would like to volunteer to help.

 Tuesday, June 12th: Kindergarten step-up day  8:10-8:40: 2nd graders return to their old kindergarten class, and the soon-to-be 2nd graders will meet their new classmates: next year's first graders!

Also Tuesday, June 12th, End-of-the-year assembly in the ABS gym: probably 2:00-2:30.

Wednesday, June 13th: last day of school. It's a half day. 

There will be no hot lunch. Instead, there will be bag lunches with either turkey or ham sandwiches. 

*****Parents, if you want your son or daughter to get lunch on the last day of school let me know ASAP  if you would like the ham sandwich or the turkey sandwich. 

Have a great weekend, everyone. 

Mr. Bolger

May 18, 2012

May 18, 2012

Dear Parents,

It has been an eventful week! 

On Monday, students eagerly wanted to tell about giving their Moms their Mother’s Day poems.  

Science workshops have been fun as we have focused on many different aspects of planting and growing and harvesting plants. Thanks, Mitchell Ward, for bringing in the Venus Fly Trap. That is so cool. 

In Math and Reading, we have been doing a lot of review and assessments in anticipation of upcoming report cards. Your children, in Reader’s Workshop, are proud of their progress in reaching higher and higher levels (ex: j, k, l, etc) over the last couple of weeks. Students are trying out books that they had only been able to dream about at the beginning of the year. Way to go!

Thanks, everyone, if you were able to donate something to the Teacher Appreciation Week.  I picked up a nice dessert from the table in the front office, and I know that Amy and the kids will be happy to see it tonight.  I love this community. And thank you, kids, for your kind cards and words.

In Read Aloud, we are reading Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist by R L LaFevers. Ask your child about the book and about what is happening now.

What great weather! I hope everyone has a great, sunny weekend.

Take care.

Mr. B