Cloudy Thursday!

DIBELS
Yesterday we took our End of Year DIBELS testing!  The students were tested on letter ID, working words out, and reading nonsense words.  I am excited for the students to show all that they have learned this school year!  We ended up with 96% of our class on green on the individual test parts AND the composite (overall) score!  WOO HOO!  Way to go!

Mile Run
The mile run is coming up TOMORROW! Instead of specials on Friday,  all students will run outside during our specials time. Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes and comfy clothes on this day!  Please check the weather forecast, because weather permitting we will be outside!

Returning Student Registration

This is new this year, but all returning students to Franklin Community Schools need to be registered this spring to attend school this August for the 2017-2018 school year. Please complete this process as soon as possible as we are planning for the upcoming school year at this time. Please reach out to us with questions or issues.

Kindergarten Awards Day

For those who like to plan ahead, Kindergarten Awards day is scheduled for Thursday, May 25, from 1-2pm.  Kindergarten students are all asked to dress up like their favorite Superkid on this day!  Look through the online portal or the Superkids books sent home to get ideas.  Start planning now!  We will have a Superkids parade through the school that morning.  Then at 1pm, we will start our program in the gym.  It is important that all students have someone to celebrate with them on this day!  We will begin with a video slideshow of our year, then all 4 Kdg. classes will sing our favorite Superkids songs, then each child will be called to the stage to receive their Kindergarten diploma from Dr. Heiden.  Finally, we will return to the classroom so students can share their portfolio with your and receive other special awards.  Please have someone plan to attend on this day!

Children's Museum

Please don't forget to return permission slips for the museum field trip on May 9th!  Right now I am still missing 6 permission slips!  I'd still like to have 1-2 more chaperones to keep group sizes small, so let me know if you plan on coming this day!

Franklin College Field Trip
As you may have seen from the yellow paper in your child's folder yesterday, we are going on a field trip to Franklin College and the public library on Tuesday, May 23.  our child will need to wear tennis shoes, their FC t-shirt (we will paint in class next week), and bring a sack lunch on this day!  This is a free field trip, all I need is for you to sign the permission slip and return to school!  We will not need parent chaperones for this trip since we will stay together as a class.

Have a great afternoon!

Happy Thursday!

Spring Carnival
Don't forget about the spring carnival tomorrow night from 5:30-8:30!  Hope to see you there!

DIBELS-Tuesday
Next Tuesday, April 25th, is our End of Year DIBELS testing!  The students will be tested on letter ID, working words out, and reading nonsense words.  I am excited for the students to show all that they have learned this school year!  Please make sure your child is well rested, and has a good breakfast Tuesday morning!

Mile Run
The mile run is coming up! Instead of specials on Friday, April 28th, all students will run outside during our specials time. Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes and comfy clothes on this day!

ABC Countdown
We will be counting down the end of the school year with an ABC countdown. We will begin on Monday because that's when we will have 26 days to go! Please look in your child's folder to find the white paper that says, "ABC Countdown!" Keep it in a safe place for the rest of the school year so that you will know what's going to happen each day. There are days that students may need to bring or wear something, so please check it daily starting Monday. Thanks!  I've attached the list here too for your reference.

ABC Countdown!

We will be counting down the end of the school year with an ABC countdown.  Each day will have an activity to go along with the letter of the day.  Most things will be provided in class, if there is something your child needs to wear, it is listed by that day!

4/24 A:  Apple Day

4/25  B:  Book Day: Bring your favorite book from home to share/read.

4/26  C:  Chalk Day

4/27  D:  Doughnut Day

4/28  E:  Exercise Day

5/1  F:  Finger Painting Day

5/2  G:  Game Day:  Bring a game to school (no electronics please!)

5/3  H:  Hat Day:  Wear a hat to school

5/4  I:  Inside Out Day:  Wear your clothes inside out

5/5 J:  Jump Rope Day

5/8  K:  Kite Day

5/9  L:  Leave School Day (Field Trip!)

5/10  M:  Mismatch Day:  Wear clothes that don’t match.

5/11  N:  Necklace/Necktie Day:  Wear your favorite necklace/necktie!

5/12  O:  Orange Day: wear as much orange as you can!

5/15  P:  Pajama Day:  Wear pajamas to school!

5/16  Q:  Quiet Day (Reading camp out):  Bring a blanket for a camp out!

5/17  R:  Red & Rock & Roll Day: Wear red and be ready to rock!

5/18  S:  Sunglasses Day: Wear sunglasses (I’ll have some to give kids too!)   

5/19 T:  T-shirt day: Wear your favorite t-shirt to school

5/22  U:  Under the desk day

5/23  V:  Vegetable Day

5/24  W:  Walking Day

5/25  X:  X-change Autograph Day

5/26  Y:  Year End Clearance Day:  Clear out and clean up! (Field day)

5/30  Z:  Zebra Day- wear stripes (Last day)

Happy Monday!

Mile Run
The mile run is coming up!  Instead of specials on Friday, April 28th, all students will run outside during our specials time.  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes and comfy clothes on this day!

Superkids
This week, we will finish the unit J book and it will come home.  We will also work on the next progress test.  Only 3 letters left!!

Math
This week in math we are working on measurement (comparing heights, weights, and capacity).  We will also start working on making classroom maps.  

Sight Words
Our sight words this week are:  come, this.  Please add these to your practice at home!  

wristband orders-spring carnival
Pre-order wristbands for the school spring carnival (this Friday!) are due by tomorrow!  You can still purchase wristbands for the games at the door Friday night, but they will be a few dollars more expensive.  Hope to see you there!

Returning Student Registration

This is new this year, but all returning students to Franklin Community Schools need to be registered this spring to attend school this August for the 2017-2018 school year. Please complete this process as soon as possible as we are planning for the upcoming school year at this time. Please use the flyer in your child's folder today to guide you through this easy process. Please reach out to us with questions or issues.

Kindergarten Awards Day

For those who like to plan ahead, Kindergarten Awards day is scheduled for Thursday, May 25, from 1-2pm.  Kindergarten students are all asked to dress up like their favorite Superkid on this day!  Look through the online portal or the Superkids books sent home to get ideas.  Start planning now!  We will have a Superkids parade through the school that morning.  Then at 1pm, we will start our program in the gym.  It is important that all students have someone to celebrate with them on this day!  We will begin with a video slideshow of our year, then all 4 Kdg. classes will sing our favorite Superkids songs, then each child will be called to the stage to receive their Kindergarten diploma from Dr. Heiden.  Finally, we will return to the classroom so students can share their portfolio with your and receive other special awards.  Please have someone plan to attend on this day!

Children's Museum

Please don't forget to return permission slips for the museum field trip on May 9th!  Right now I only have 8 permission slips returned and 3 chaperones! 

Have a great week!

Halfway through another busy week!

Recess 
Just a friendly reminder that we do go to recess early in our school day (9:45-10:15).  Please try to make sure and send a jacket with students to school especially since their recess is so early.  Even if it is warm later in the day, it may be chilly still in the morning.  Mrs. Robbins is running out of jackets and sweatshirts to loan to students if they need something.  

Superkids Test
Last week we finished our most recent progress test for Superkids.  I sent those test results home today.  Please look over them and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Sight Words

The sight words this week are: was, said.  Please add these to your method of practice at home!

Earth Day
We have been talking in class about Earth Day and what it means to help take care of the Earth.  In Writer's workshop we created a special Earth Day project with our promises of what we will do to help take care of the Earth.  We colored coffee filters with markers and then sprayed them with water so the colors would run together to look like the Earth.  Then I took the boys and girls' pictures to glue underneath so it would like like they were holding up the Earth.  Then we added the writing piece.  These projects are now displayed outside our classroom.  They turned out great!

 

Children's Museum Field Trip

Kindergarten is going on a field trip to the Children's Museum on Tuesday, May 9th.  Please return the permission slip and $1 for the carousel ride as soon as you can.  We will need a LOT of chaperones to make this trip successful!  Right now I only have a couple.  Please consider being a chaperone.  Grandparents are welcome to chaperone too as long as they have their background check done by the trip!  Thanks in advance! 

Yearbooks

There are still a few extra yearbooks available for purchase in the office if you didn't order one and would like one.  They are $15.

Plastic lids request

I have a favor to ask--our county 4-H clubs are collecting plastic lids (of any lid--water bottle lids, cottage cheese lids, detergent lids, ect.) for a recycling project.  They are going to turn them into a bench to be placed at the fairgrounds, hopefully before county fair this summer.  If you have any lids that you would be willing to keep, wash off, and send to school (anytime between now and the end of the school year) I would greatly appreciate it!  Thank you in advance!

Happy First Day Back from Spring Break!

Teddy Bear Pictures
We had a blast at our teddy bear picnic before spring break!  Check out our pictures below.

Sight Words
This week we are adding three new sight words to practice.  Please add to your practice at home.  The words are: what, where, who.

Superkids
We started unit 8 today in The Superkids' Club!  This year is just flying by!  In unit 8, we will discuss K and Qu.  We will read a play that the Superkids are putting on called The Glum Princess.  We are going to try to do a Reader's Theater with the play next week or the week after and perform it for some first grade classes or the preschool.

Math
This week in math we are finishing up unit 8.  We will be working on the following:

• sequencing numbers
• estimation
• addition top-it
• function machines
• roll and record with two dice
• name-collection posters
• addition and subtraction games

Writer's Workshop
You will see your child's latest writer's workshop notebook come home soon.  We have really been working hard on the 6+1 Traits of Writing (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions).  We have also been working on the 5 keys to a good sentence (capital letter at beginning, lowercase letters throughout sentence, finger spaces between words, sight words spelled correctly, ending marks at the end of sentence).  We are proud to show off their great work!

Come to Creekside’s 10th annual “Storybook Night” 
Come and hear stories read by some wonderful characters. There will be a different story in every room!! Bring the whole family for the free fun!!! (Children must be with an adult.) Punch and cookies will be served !!! Place: Creekside Elementary Date: Thursday, April 6th Time: 6:00pm -7:30pm (Doors open at 6:00 and stories begin at 6:15).

Snack Calendar-April

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
3	4	5	6	7
10 Addison	11	12	13	14
17 Carter	18	19	20	21
24 Gloria	25	26	27	28

Book Order
The April Scholastic book order is going home in folders on
Monday.  This will be the last book order for the school year, so stock up!  I don't like to order in May for fear the books won't arrive in time before school is out!

Book It
Don't forget to return March Book-It Reading logs sometime this week!  March is the last month that the program runs for the school year!  I will be having the special party with those students that returned the reading log every month later in April.  I will contact you about this later if your child qualifies.  Thanks for reading at home!  Keep reading even though book it is over!!

Spring Carnival
The Creekside Barnyard Bash is next Friday, April 21st!  5:30-8:30!  Make sure to mark your calendars and come out for a lot of family fun!  

Have a great week!