With a recent decline is motivation to do our best efforts, and in an effort to prepare the students for the many expectations, responsibilities, and privileges that come with moving on to middle school, your child will receive one citizenship grade per week for the next four weeks. **This will be in addition to earning Brown Bucks as a school-wide behavior plan.
All students with 85% or higher for a citizen grade for the week will receive one extra recess on Friday afternoons. This will allow the students who continually follow their life skills and life-long guidelines to be rewarded for those efforts.
My hope is that this new system will stress to the students that fun activities, such as the Indians baseball trip, Field Day, Marsville, and our class picnic party are privileges, or rewards, for students who follow classroom and school expectations. Should any one student struggle to note these privileges, his or her parent will be notified and special rewards could be at risk.
All students will start the week with a 100% A+ for citizenship. The following are possible reasons for a decrease of 5% for each issue, but are not limited to this list:
- Not following classroom rules/expectations
- Using inappropriate language or tone
- Being unkind to others
- Being told more than one time to do something
- Not following hallway or lunchroom and recess rules
- Not following specials’ class rules
Clothing Needed for Brown Clinic!
For our 2011 Service Learning project, the kindergarten students are helping to collect clothing for our clinic. Students who spill something on their clothes, have an accident, or otherwise need a change of clothing often visit the clinic for a change of clothes. Unfortunately, many of these items do not get returned to the nurse after they are lent out. We are collecting gently used (no holes or stains, please) or new items to stock the clinic.
• Our Clinic’s TOP Need: Boys’ clothing, ALL SIZES, but especially sizes 10-16
• NEW packages of underwear or socks, all children’s sizes (all underclothes provided by the clinic MUST be brand new & does not need to be returned after wearing)
• Boys or girls pants, shorts, & shirts, sizes 6-16, regular, slim, & husky
• Jackets
• Mittens or gloves
You may bring clean clothing items to donate to school from May 2-13 and place in boxes located outside each kindergarten classroom. If we receive more clothing than our clinic can store, we will donate the excess to Goodwill and other Brownsburg school clinics. Thank you for supporting kindergarten service learning!
Our class picnic/end of the year party will be held on Thursday, May 26 beginning at 12:20, our lunch time. Information will go home about this event tomorrow. Please make this change on your calendars. Thanks
HAPPY EARTH DAY! DO SOMETHING THAT'S "EARTH FRIENDLY" TODAY!
Portfolio Night/Middle School Orientations
- East Middle School's Orientation is Tuesday, May 10th from 6:30-8:30.
- West Middle School's Orientation is Wednesday, May 11th at 6:30.
- Brown Elementary Portfolio and Data Night is Tuesday, May 10th from 6-7. The Book Fair will remain open until 7:30.
Picnic: Monday, May 23 @ 12:15-3:00
- Information about the class picnic will go home next week. I'm still finalizing the details. However, the time has changed a bit to correlate with all of our schedules the wrap up the school year. Please change that time on your calendars.
I just received the ISTEP schedule for the week of Monday, April 25-Thursday, April 28. We will test twice on Monday and Thursday: one test in the morning and one in the afternoon. We will only test once on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week in the morning.
Our generous PSG parents purchased one snack per day for each student in our class for the March tests. However, they will NOT be purchasing snacks for the April tests. If any parents are willing to send a healthy snack into school for one of those days, I know the kids would be ecstatic! They look forward to the treats after working their brains to the limits!
We do have a few allergies, however, that need to be considered. Since items must be store-bought, please check the ingredients for tree nuts, strawberries, and peaches. We CANNOT have any treats/snacks with these items in the ingredients. If you can send something pre-packaged for 29 students, that works best for our large group.
Thanks in advance for sending snacks to school!
Some students in our class took their spring pictures today with Kim Berry and her Captured Memories' crew. Only students that had order forms were photographed today. However, if you did not turn in a form today with your child, but you'd really like him or her to get a spring picture, Kim will return tomorrow for an additional picture day. Just send the form and payment on Thursday, April 14 with your child, and a picture will be taken at some point during the day . . . hopefully earlier in the day since it is PE day.
(The pictures are from the shoulders up, so dressing completely in "picture" clothes is not necessary.)
Dates: (See below for more information for each date)
- April 13: Spring Pictures
- Aprl 19: Math Test Unit 9
- April 25: ISTEP begins
- April 29: Baseball Field Trip permissin slips go home
- May 3: PSG Meeting at 6 PM
- May 5: Chicken Biscuits sale
- May 9-May 14: Scholastic Book Fair
- May 10: Portfolio Night & Open House--Time TBA
- May 13: Grandparent's Breakfast 8 AM
- May 19: Baseball Field Trip to Victory Field
- May 19: Fifth Grade Party (after field trip)
- May 20: Field Day
- May 23: Class picnic
- May 24: Marsville
- May 27: Last student day (snow make up day)
All myth writings have been completed! Now we're just waiting on a few illustrations for the myths before we can officially "publish" them. The illustrations are due tomorrow, Wednesday, April 13.
Also tomorrow is picture day--Parents can get an order form from the Brown Elementary web page if one is needed for picture day tomorrow. I also have a couple of extras I can send home today if needed. Just let Mrs. Hill know. If a child DOES NOT have an order form and payment, he or she will NOT be photographed. Our pictures will take place at 11:00 tomorrow, Wednesday, April 13.
We have a snow make-up day on Monday, April 18! YEAH--more time to learn! Smiling!
Math Test: We originally scheduled our math test for Unit 9 on Friday. However, we're not getting through the unit as I had planned. Therefore, we will postpone the test until Tuesday, April 19. We will finish the unit and prep for the test prior to Tuesday. A study guide will go home this week to prepare the students for the contents of the test.
ISTEP is quickly approaching. This year, fifth grade students will take this portion of the ISTEP test (multiple choice) on the computer. We will complete a practice test today in order to understand how it will work. ISTEP week begins Monday, April 25 and will continue each day that same week. Please try to get to school on those days on time, and reschedule any appointments, if possible, so your child does not miss any of the testing.
We are headed to Victory Field on Thursday, May 19 to watch the Indianapolis Indians play a baseball game! We will send home permission slips on Friday, April 29. We have five reserved spaces for parent volunteers, however, we would LOVE to have as many other parents attend as wish to, too. Those parents, beyond the 5 volunteers, will need to MEET us at the field rather than ride the bus with the class and will need to purchase a ticket at the gate.
Thursday, May 19: Fifth Grade party after field trip!!! More information to come . . .
Friday, May 20 is Brown Elementary's Field Day! Please email Macy McMullen if you'd like to volunteer for the day! We'd love to have as many parents to cheer us on that day as possible! We will be wearing our team tshirts and pink bandanas!
Monday, May 23: Class picnic--More information to come . . . many parent volunteers and/or donations requested soon . . .
Tuesday, May 24 is our Marsville event! Parents are welcomed to attend and highly encouraged. More information to come . . .
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