Friday, May 4:  Picnic & Play at Penick Park  (10:30-1:30)

Each student must bring a sack lunch, 2 BOTTLED drinks, and a towel.  (Sack lunches & milk will be available from the cafeteria, if needed.)  They may also each bring ONE item to play with at the park (no bats), but keeping up with the item is the child’s responsibility.  Please make sure your child’s name is on EVERYTHING!  Parents are welcome to join us!  Students will be allowed to leave the park with parents if they are checked out with the teacher.

Tuesday, May 8:  Class Pictures- The pictures are taken in the morning, so don’t be late!

Wednesday, May 9:  Field Day (8:20-11:45)

Students need to wear old clothes & athletic shoes (NO FLIP FLOPS OR SANDALS), and bring a water bottle & towel.  Parents are encouraged to come watch the fun!  When the fun is over, the students will be allowed to leave with parents as long as the student has been checked out with the teacher.  If your student will be staying the entire day, he/she may want to bring a change of clothes–sometimes they end up quite wet! 

Thursday, May 24:  Early dismissal

Friday, May 25:  Early dismissal/ Last day of school!

All Intermediate students will be STAAR testing this week.   The math test will be on Tuesday, and the reading test will be on Wednesday.  5th grade will be taking the science test on Thursday.  The students may bring a ROOM TEMPERATURE pop-top water bottle and 2 pieces of gum or mints for testing each day.  Also, all students must bring a lunch from home or eat the lunch available in the cafeteria.  No lunch visitors will be allowed on campus during testing.

It is important that the kids get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast before testing.  We want the kids to be well-rested and ready to give their best effort!

Please be sure to come out and join 3rd grade at our Easter party Thursday, April 5. We will start out at 1:00 in the cafeteria by assembling ice cream sundaes and then be out on the playground until 2:00. We welcome any parent volunteers who would like to help students put their sundaes together.

Remember…

*Easter eggs should be decorated, filled with a treat, and returned no later than Wednesday, April 6.

*Ice cream sundae items that have been designated should be returned no later than Wednesday, April 6.

  Just a reminder that Scholastic book orders are due Friday, March 30!  Don’t forget that you may also order online–just click on the Scholastic button on the right-side of this blog.  Our class code is GZBP9.  Thank you!

4th and 5th Grades will be testing on Tuesday, March 27, and Wednesday, March 28. 

NO VISITORS WILL BE ALLOWED ON CAMPUS!  Students will need to bring a lunch from home or eat the lunch available in the cafeteria.

3rd Grade will test on April 24-25.

All 3rd & 4th graders will be taking benchmark tests this week.  The math test will be on Tuesday, and the reading test will be on Wednesday.  The students may bring a pop-top water bottle and 2 pieces of gum for testing each day.  Also, all students must bring a lunch from home or eat the lunch available in the cafeteria.  No lunch visitors will be allowed on campus during testing.

It is important that the kids get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast before testing.  We want the kids to be well-rested and ready to give their best effort!

Congratulations to these two students who demonstrated honor and generosity!  They were awarded Chick-fil-A cards during our Character Ed Assembly on February 14. 

In honor of Presidents’ Day, there will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20.  Enjoy the long weekend, kiddos! 

Today we began studying a new story, The Harvest Birds, by Blanca Lopez de Mariscal.  The story is about a boy named Juan Zanate, who likes to sit under his favorite tree and dream of becoming a farmer like his father and grandfather. But when his father dies, there is only enough land for his two older brothers. In this enchanting and inspiring story, Juan learns to determine his own destiny. The Harvest Birds offers lessons on the traditions of rural Mexico, the importance of respecting nature, and the possibility of making dreams happen.  The vocabulary words for this story are:  serious, patch, borrow, advice, ashamed, borders, separate, and harvest.  Ask your child to tell you the meanings of these words as they relate to the story. 

The new spelling words are four, head, above, kind, and began.  Please remember that the students will be held accountable for the both the correct spelling and the correct usage of these words in their writing.  Other words that are still being confused:  where/were, its/it’s, there/their/they’re, to/too/two, and then/than.  The next spelling test will be Tuesday, Feb. 21.

Each month at White Oak Intermediate,  we have a short character education assembly to celebrate a character trait that we have been studying.  Our character trait for January was Self-Control:  choosing to do what you should do, not what you want to do.  Our class, along with Mrs. Carrington’s class, was chosen to be in charge of the program.  They worked hard to learn a song about self-control, and a few of the kids were chosen for speaking parts.  Click on the picture below to see a video of their performance.  (You can make the video bigger by clicking on the picture.)  THEY MADE ME SO PROUD!

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These kids received an award from Chick-fil-A because they demonstrated patience or self-control sometime during the month.  Way to go!