A Great Week

Hello Parents,
I can't believe it's been two weeks already since I first met your children.  We have had such a busy couple of weeks.  We finished learning about transportation and will move on to Spring, eggs, and St. Patrick's Day.  We had a wonderful time celebrating Women In History Week at MATES and hearing about many famous women from the 5th graders.  The transportation projects turned out amazing.  The students loved sharing them and we had a museum on Thursday where they got to get up close to all the projects and Mrs. Glazer and Mrs. Roll's classes also came through to view the projects.  I have included some pictures.  I am so proud of your children for all the progress they have made these past two weeks.  Mrs. Coulter will be back on Monday and will continue until Mrs. Gavin returns. The letter of the week will be the long /e/ sound and the sight word is come.

Leprechaun Traps

Hello Parents,
The school's email system was down all week end and we wanted to give you a head start on your leprechaun trap.  We sent home a paper today in your child's back pack explaining the project.  Please check to make sure you received one.  It will also be in their homework folders on Wednesday.  They will need to build a leprechaun trap our of recycled paper, plastic, and /or aluminum goods (cereal/shoe boxes, cans, string, etc.).  As you think of creative ideas to build your trap, don't forget to add bait to lure the leprechaun in!  Leprechauns are greedy and like candy, coins and other shiny objects!

Have fun with this project and use your imagination!

Please bring in your traps by Monday, March 16th.

First Week with Mrs. Shukiar

Hello,
My name is Leasa Shukiar and I get the wonderful pleasure of being your children's teacher for two weeks.  We had a truly fantastic week.  We were learning about trains this week and did many explorations with them.  We made a train book where our train went through many different places.  For example the country, a tunnel and the city.  We read books about trains and made our own freight train.  During Children's Workshop today, I brought some trains and tracks from home for the students to play with.  That was a big hit!  Our letter of the week was W and our sight word was the word "was."  We also had a fun time celebrating Dr. Seuss on Thursday and wearing pajamas to school.  We read many Dr. Seuss books and did a variety of Dr. Seuss themed activities during the day.  You probably got hungry reading their version of what to eat green eggs with that they brought home on Thursday.  I loved seeing many of you at the MATES reading night that followed.  Today we thoroughly enjoyed hearing half of the class share their amazing transportation projects.  I can't wait to hear the rest on Monday.  Next week we will be learning about boats and studying the short sound of the vowel "e" and our sight word want.  For the letter bag, the students can bring in any item with a short "e" inside the word or that starts with a short "e." I am so proud of the work the students did this week and for their determination to earn class hearts.  They filled the jar and got smarties on Friday to celebrate.  I am confident they will fill the jar again quickly because they are working so hard.  Have a wonderful week end!
Truly,
Mrs. Shukiar