Weekly Update

Thank you to all our wonderful chaperones who helped with our trip to the Pacific Science Center! We had a very successful trip and things ran very smoothly thanks to our terrific chaperones.  If you haven't seen an IMAX 3D movie, we highly recommend the Butterfly movie!   It was magical.

Our next in-class field trip from Nature Vision is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14th.   This visit will be all about insects as well.

We are in need of some glass soda bottles for a ceramic art project we will be doing with Shuko.  If you have any bottles, please send them in to us.

Here are some pictures of last week's art session out in the sunshine.

This Week's News

Hi Parents,
Our Flat Stanleys are arriving!   We are enjoying find out all about different communities in the United States (and even some out of the United States!).
Here's a picture of our giant US map we made in class.  We are keeping track of where Flat Stanley is visiting.

Next week, we will be taking all the information we learned about our Flat Stanley adventures, and each student will create a poster displaying the community his or her Flat Stanley went to.

We are also having fun learning about our local Kirkland community.   We have been enjoying the powerpoint presentations of our classmates while learning about the local banks, stores, community centers, and parks.  Parents can view the powerpoints on our haiku site:   lms.lwsd.org   Students log in with their regular user name and password.  They should be able to help you find the powerpoints under Social Studies, Connect, and Drop Box.  Enjoy!

Our meal worms have arrived!  We are learning all about insects and insect life cycles while we feed, care for, and watch our meal worms grow and change.   Each student has his or her own meal worm in a little house on his or her desk.  We feed them left over apples or carrots from lunch.

Our next field trip is next Monday, April 29th.  Thank you to all our chaperones:  Stig, Linda, Stacey, Tami, Jeff, Doug, Mini, Marianela, Prerna, Kris, Alissa, Michelle.     We'll meet you here at school at 9AM.  Students are to come to school with a sack lunch that can be disposed of after the trip.

Over the weekend, I came across an interesting article about background TV exposure and how it affects children's learning.
Here's a link to the article:  http://www.education.com/magazine/article/background-tv/

Field Trip

We had a wonderful time at the Burke Museum today!
Thank you to all our volunteers:   Kristen, Kim, Linda, Marianela, Doug, Mini, Alissa, and Caroline.   Having so mnay parent chaperones really makes things run smoothly.

Here are some pictures of today's events:

Also..... here's a great chance to get together with other parents:

There will be a pancake breakfast this Saturday from 9-11am.  This is a great opportunity for those parents who are not able to make the 9-5 events at school.  They are still looking for several volunteers.  It would be very much appreciated as they would like to see the first working parent event a huge success.   It is also a great way to earn sparrow club hours! See below for details.  Thank you, Stacey Zuber

Please join us the first Sandburg/DCS working parent Pancake Breakfast event this Saturday morning from 9-11.  Cost is $5.00 per adult and $4.00 for each child.  Tickets can be purchased by going to the website http://sandburgdcs.ourschoolpages.com/Home and signing up by clicking on "working parents" on the left hand side of the page. Or, a half sheet flyer will be coming home with your child this week, please fill it out and send it back.  Tickets will also be sold at the door for a slightly higher cost.

We are also still looking for some volunteers, 8:30- 9:00 set up,  9-10 cooks and ticket sales, 10-11 cooks and ticket sales, 11-12 clean up. Please contact Will Pranzini at therealpranzini@hotmail.com to sign up.  All volunteers will get a free pancake breakfast. We can also take a mother/father/child partner to sale tickets at the door and earn sparrow club hours. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Pancake Breakfast this Saturday 9-11

Happy April

Art:
Ceramic Plate painting.  Thank you to Shuko for teaching us how to do this!

 Oil Pastel Cupcakes showing value:

Field Trips:
Thank you to everyone who has turned in field trip forms and money.
Remember to turn in your paperwork and money this week.  Our first field trip will be on that Monday we return from vacation, April 15th.    Thank you so much to our chaperones!  Right now we have 8 chaperones for the Burke Museum and 9 chaperones for the Pacific Science Center!  This will make for nice small groups.   .

March Madness Reading:
This fun event ended today!  Students were so excited to Tally their points.  The winning team is:  Best of the Best with 180 points this week.
We will be tallying up the total points for each team and announcing on Friday during the celebration.  

Monthly Assessments:
Students are bringing these home today.  You will find a math test, math quick check, reading comprehension assessment (This one was tough!  Students read a non-fiction piece about Oil and how it is a messy resource and then answered some tricky questions), a phonics assessment, and their monthly math facts timed test.    Students are getting much faster with their math facts!   We are so impressed.  It is still very important to keep practicing at least once a week.  These facts come in handy for double digit addition and subtraction.

Community Reports:
We are working with our 4th grade big buddies this week to fix and fancy up our community powerpoints.  After students have finished with revising and editing, they will get to share them with the class.   We are also working on posting them to our class Haiku website so that you can see them all from home as well.

Math:
Today, we reviewed double digit subtraction and tonight's homework is the practice test.  Students will take the unit test on Tuesday.

Spring Break:
Fitness Fun Forms went home today.   Forms are due back 4/19/13.    The class with the most forms turned in gets an extra 30 minutes of play with Mr. Sandbo!    

Have a wonderful week.