End of the Year Auction

We are holding an "End of the Year Auction" next week for a chance to spend our Brown Bucks before heading off for the summer. However, the auctioneer could really use some extra special items for auctioning off by next Thursday. I am not asking you to purchase anything new, but maybe you have an extra item in a "regifting" closet, or an item set aside to place in a garage sale that you'd like to donate!!! I have a few items already, but could really use some more. Here are some ideas:

• Packages of gum
• Hershey Kisses
• Football/Basketball/Baseball cards
• Fun pens/pencils
• Gift cards
• Bags
• Healthy snacks/treats
• Candy on Healthy Food Guide Line List
• Individual drinks
• $ store items
• Decorations for locker (mirror, pen holder, notepad)
• Magazines
• Hair items/Hats
• Notepads

Thank you for helping ALL year with donations!
Looking forward to the next 7 days as we celebrate together!

Breakfast Club

Our final two Breakfast Club breakfasts will take place this week and next week. ALL students invited to April's BF Club this Friday already received an invitation.

I will be sending home invitations for the final BF Club this week. We will meet next Wednesday at 8:20. Congratulations to ALL students that attended at least 1 BF Club to celebrate you're successes!

Congratulations Payton!

Our friend and classmate, Payton, submitted a poem and was selected as a finalist to be published with Creative Communications! Please join me in congratulating her on her success!

Victory Field Info

We head to Victory Field on Thursday, May 19!!!! The buses will pull out of Brown's parking lot by 9:15.

ALL STUDENTS MUST BRING $$$ FOR CONCESSIONS AND OTHER ITEMS THAT DAY!

At this point, the weather @ http://www.weather.com/ calls for a high of 69 degrees and partly cloudy (or partly sunny if you're an optimist)! However, the low is 54 degrees that morning. We will keep our fingers crossed for dry weather, and warm weather will be a bonus!

Please dress accordingly for the weather and the event. We will be doing a lot of walking, so gym shoes are preferrable. Also, let's plan to wear our BLACK 5th grade t-shirts (if you have one) or just a black t-shirt.

Keeping All the Forms Organized!

One of the kids said yesterday, "There are just too many papers to return!" I totally agree, but if we don't get them out there, many of the exciting end of the year activities we have won't be successful--so I thought I'd lay it out here to help organize all of the forms:

• 5th Grade Party donations--half white sheet sent home Wednesday--due as soon as possible
• Marsville Volunteer on May 24--Blue sheet sent home last week
• Marsville T-shirt iron on volunteer opportunity--sent home Wednesday--due if interested
• Picnic/end of the year party permission slip and donations--sent home Monday--RSVP and permission slip due as soon as possible
• T-shirt size for Marsville--not paper form, but important information that is needed to order shirts--need by Friday
• Baseball permission slip--sent home last Thursday--due by May 13 for all students: all parent volunteers riding the bus have been notified. All other parents are welcome to join us at the field, too, but will purchase tickets at the gate and find us in Section 120.

Weekly Citizenship Grade

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

 

Kindergarten Service Learning

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!