Little Blue Bulletin: 3/9-3/13

What a beautiful week! We are glad that kids can get out and play in this great weather. However, continue good habits of hand washing is going to keep your child healthy. Many of our students had been sick this week.

Don't Forget!

• There will be no school on Monday, March 16. It's Teacher Learning Day.
  
• Conferences are March 19-27. We will be having 12:30 dismissal during conferences. You need to coordinate with after school drivers.

What have we done this week:

• Penguin unit: We built and painted life-sized penguins this week. We had hands-on activities to compare our heights and weights with each penguin. They had a lot of fun! We also practiced creating penguin word problems. We will be creating a slideshow on the computer with those word problems.
  
• We are getting ready for St. Patrick's Day by making a rainbow mobile as well as reading Scholastic News in class. Don't forget to wear green on Tuesday!
  

Parent Survey in Online now!
It’s Survey Time!! We would like to invite you to take part in our annual School Survey. Your feedback on the survey is critical to the school as the survey results are used by the School Site Council to create the school goals. The survey will be “live” on Monday, March 16, 2009 and will close on Tuesday, March 31, 2009.

To complete the survey follow these steps (during the dates listed above):

1) Go to the school website, www.portalpenguins.org ,
2) Click on the link to the survey.
3) Complete one survey for each child attending Murdock-Portal.
4) After you have completed the survey, print the last page of the survey.
5) Bring your receipt to your parent-teacher conference.

Thank you for your participation in making our school a wonderful place! Again, your feedback for the survey is so important and we value your input.



PLEASE REFER TO THIS LINK AND KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS!
The Little Blue Village Calendar


Sharing:

3/17: Career Mask presentation
3/23: Share some signs of spring


Have a great week!
The Little Blue Teachers

Little Blue Bulletin 3/02-3/06

What a wild week! March has come in like a lion. With the rain and cold, please remember to send your child to school with a warm jacket. We try our best to remind them to wear jackets at recess time.

What have we done this week:

• Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! We celebrated his birthday with rhyming projects, and fun reading. We also saw a play to help promote good reading habits.
  
• Penguin unit: We finished the research part of our penguin unit. We studied about the emperor and galapagos penguins this week. We have also been creating math games, talking about weight comparisons, and doing some penguin word problems.
  
• We made our March poems and art this week too. Each student wrote a limerick about a penguin. It was a great way to remember our rhyming words.
  

Fresh Choice Night!
We hope you were able to make it to Fresh Choice Night this week. Congratulations to Katherine and Justin as well as Riya and Neha for winning the K/1 raffle.

Don't Forget!

• Career projects are coming up! They are due on Thursday, March 12th.
• Please return your conference slips as soon as possible. We appreciate you making the effort to meet with us.
• There will be no school on Monday, March 16. It's Teacher Learning Day.
  
• Conferences are March 19-27. We will be having 12:30 dismissal during conferences.
  

PLEASE REFER TO THIS LINK AND KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS!
The Little Blue Village Calendar


Sharing:

3/9: Picture and information on your favorite penguin
3/17: Career Mask presentation


Have a great week!
The Little Blue Teachers