The Week of February 19th

 The Blue Jays Weekly Newsletter

                               

E-Learning Half Day

Please check your email regarding the project for Black History Month that your student should be completing at home. When submitted, it will count as attendance for the E-Learning Day, last Friday, February 17. It is due this Friday, February 24.

Field Trip to Oatland Island

Field Trip permission slips, for our Oatland Island visit on March 2, went home last Thursday. If your child was not here that day, they will receive one today. The cost of the trip is $5 and is payable online via the School Cash App or just send in $5 with the signed permission slip. Please return signed forms as soon as possible. Thank you!

Birthday Walk Around the Sun

We celebrate our students’ birthdays with a “Walk Around the Sun.”  The child holds the globe in their hands and walks around a candle placed on the floor.  One trip around this “sun” for every year of age. You can prepare for your child's walk around the sun by writing down important events from each year or making a timeline with your child.  If you choose to make a timeline, you can keep it and simply add a picture for their celebration the following year. Students may also bring in a healthy snack to share with the community. Birthday celebrations will take place the afternoon of your child’s birthday or another day that is agreed upon. 

Timelines

Timelines are used in the Montessori classroom extensively in the cultural and cosmic curriculum, first seen in the Great Lessons. This preparatory activity of creating their personal timeline readies the students to work with the extensive timelines that are presented throughout lower and upper elementary.

Example of a personal timeline. It does not have to look like this! 

Personal Timeline:

1. A timeline can be as short as one page or as long as a wall. 

2. To make a short timeline, draw a vertical line down the middle of a sheet of paper.

3. Write your child’s birth date on the left side of the line at the top of the page. On the right side of the line, write the corresponding event. (“I was born!”)

4. Add other important dates and events, such as when your child started to walk and talk, when siblings were born, when your child started preschool, when you took family trips, and so on, in chronological order.

5. To make a long time line, cut a length of paper from a large roll or tape several sheets of paper together. Draw a horizontal line across the middle of the banner.                     

6. Write the dates and events of your child’s life from left to right.

7. Glue on photos or let your child illustrate each event.  

Wish List

Guinea Pig Bedding

Timothy Hay

Family Engagement 

Homework

The lower elementary classes have the following homework expectations:

Read for 20 minutes each night, either independently or with family members.

If you have access to technology at home, your child can follow their i-Ready learning path.

Math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division) 

It is very important that all families sign up for our community Remind!  Please text @ac3c9 to number 81010 or if you are having trouble with 81010 try texting @ac3c9 to 971-239-4842  (Please sign up!)

Dates to Remember

February 20- Staff Planning-No School

February 24- Black History Presentations Due

February 24- Donation Dress Down

February 25- Family Engagement

February 25- Savannah Bananas Ellis Night

March 2- Field Trip Oatland Island