May

Celebration of the Arts May 18

Please mark your calendars for an entertaining evening celebrating your child’s
expressive talent at our First Annual Author’s Night and Student Art Show
Wednesday May 18. There will be art, music, literature, giveaways, and refreshments!
There will be a Poetry Café’ with an open mic for those who like to come and read a
poem you enjoy or an original that you have written, Third graders will be showing
off their musical achievements and mastery level with their recorders. You will be
able to enjoy and purchase exhibited student art at the auction, view the work of
student authors, and enjoy student literary presentations. Haiku poems written by
students in our class has been selected to be in the event’s featured publication, which
is an anthology of best of the best student writing. Congratulations Trinity Anderson,
Satchel Love, Destine’ Pippen, and Je’Ron Wells!

UPREP 5k Walk/Run is Saturday May 21

Let’s celebrate healthy living together at the 5K Walk. Have a great day with UPREP
at Belle Isle. Cost is $10 per family and all participants get a free t-shirt. Pre-register
now to join the family fun! Registration will be open from 8 – 8:30a.m. at the band
shell.

Exhibition
I am really looking forward to our final exhibitions for the year! Please make sure
that your child is preparing their interest project as well as practicing to present their
math goals. Please remember that their math goal is their choice, and should be a goal
that can be presented with confidence.

Academic Accomplishment
Our class has grown leaps and bounds this year! Currently, we are enjoying our Book
Clubs in Reader’s Workshop where we share books we love, as well as read a book
with other students at a similar reading level. This helps students learn to discuss
literature and practice reading skills such as prediction, inference, author’s purpose,
and questioning the author, just to name a few. Plus, it is a way to share the love of
reading. In Writer’s Workshop, we are writing our own fantasy stories (folktale,
fairytale, or a modern fantasy) as we learn more about story elements such as setting,
plot, dialog and character traits. We are also working on grammar and cursive
writing. Our goal is to create a story that is ready to be published and shared online
as a podcast. In math, we are working on multiplication and division skills.
A “Green” Service Learning Project that Helps Haitian Orphans and
Encourages Writing!
Our class has decided to sell Smens and colored
Smencils, (scented pens and scented pencils made
of organic, bio-degradable materials) to benefit
Haitian orphans. Student council members are
designing a sales campaign to share their
knowledge of Haiti and to promote the pens and
pencils which come in many yummy scents and
sell for $2 a piece. Students may purchase
individual pens and colored Smencils for $2, or
get the entire set of either for $20 for their own
use. Scents include: Pink Lemonade, Red
Licorice, Banana Fo Fana, Ninja Berry, Aloha,
Caramel Corn, Black Licorice, Creamsicle,
Passion Fruit, and Mocha. Writing is always more interesting when you have fun
tools! Please consider purchasing a set of Smens or Smencils for your student and
even for others as gifts and graduation presents to celebrate a job well done in the
2010-2011 school year, as well as to encourage their creative and cursive
writing throughout the summer!

SMEN AND SMENCIL ORDER FORM

STUDENT NAME_______________________

10 SMENS $20

10 COLORED SMENCILS $20

INDIVIDUAL PENS/PENCILS $2

I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THE HELP FOR HAITI

PROJECT.
I WANT TO ORDER _________ SMENS AND ______
SMENCILS, I HAVE ENCLOSED $_______________________.
(NO TAX NEEDED)

SIGNED_________________________________________