Paw Prints

• April 1 - Elementary Principal's Lunch
• April 2 - Middle School Class Parties during 4th Hour; early dismissal at 12:30 PM
• April 3-6 - No School - Easter Break
• April 17 - Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade field trip - More info. to come from teachers!
• April 20-24 - MAP testing for grades 3-8. Click HERE to read the parent letter. Click HERE for the schedule.
• April 24 - Preschool Goodies with Gals in the multi-room at 2:00.
• April 27 - Fine Arts Night (Grades 6-12 Band and Art students)
• May 1 - Preschool and Kindergarten Round-Up from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM. Contact Mrs. Holstine with preschool questions and Mrs. Yocum with kindergarten questions.
  

• Please dress your child according to the weather. Students go outside for recess unless the temperature or wind chill drops below 20 degrees or if there is wintery percipitation.
• Please do not linger in the hallways after 8:00 AM. All classes (PK-12) begin promptly at 8:00 AM.
• Please do not drop off students before 7:40 AM. Students are NOT supervised before 7:40 AM at the school.
• Breakfast is served between 7:40-7:57. Breakfast is NOT served after 8:00 AM.
• Please share an active email address on the enrollment form and with your child's teacher for easy communication.

This month's character trait is COURAGE. Our focus for courage is "choosing what is helpful, right, and kind even when it is hard or scary." COURAGE is worth three points this month!

Examples of courage to discuss with your child:

• Trying something new
• Sharing your art, invention, or ideas with others
• Going on an adventure somewhere

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Check out the information below about helping kids do their best on the test!

Thank you for the great turnout at Brownies and Buddies! We enjoy sharing the love of reading with your families!

We are down to the last quarter of school, and the elementary students have worked very hard mastering many new concepts throughout the year. With only a little over six weeks left of school, classes will be working on a few more important math skills, and revisiting some challenging older ones. Third through fifth graders will begin MAP testing April 20th, and everyone is drilling down to achieve their maximum potential. We are so PROUD of all our students.

• K-- Will continue to identify and describe shapes, two dimensional and three dimensional shapes. Identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, solid figures and shapes in our environment. They will analyze, compare, and create two and three dimensional shapes.
• 1st--Working with ten less than a number, measuring lengths. Comparing lengths by using units and appropriate tools. Learning about time and money. the value of coins, and telling time to the hour and the half-hour.
• 2nd--Working with dimensional shapes and learning their names. Discovering polygons and angles, two dimensional shapes, building with shapes, and working with cubes. Learning about area by finding equal shares, and equal partition shapes. Problem solving finding unknown measurements using addition and subtraction.
• 3rd--Equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, benchmark fractions, whole numbers and fractions, and problem solving fractions. Time to the minute, elapsed time, measuring elapsed time, word problems involving elapsed time. Measuring liquid volume, estimating and measuring mass, word problems involving volume and mass. .
• 4th--Patterns, number rules, repeating shapes, problem solving. Lines, rays, and angles, measuring and drawing angles, adding and subtracting angles, problem solving using appropriate tools. Classifying triangles, quadrilaterals, line symmetry, and drawing shapes.

Dive-ision!

Try this riddle:

Which three numbers have the same answer whether they are added or multiplied?

Answer: 1+2+3=6 and 1x2x3=6