I can not believe that we are nearly done of this school year, two months left and they are going to fly by. We are coming to an end of our farm theme this week and starting our new theme which will be Mon environment ,cest important (my environment is important) In this unit we will be discussing our environment, what we can do to protect it, such as litter less lunches, picking up garbage and putting it in the garbage, shutting the water off when we brush our teeth as well as to shutting the lights off when we leave a room. I would like to encourage you to take this months and promote the litter less lunches. I know that this will be difficult but instead of a granola bar with a wrapper you could send an apple or orange and so on.
Also this month we will be exploring how plantes grow,what they need to survive, insects and how they plan an important roll in our environment.

This is a busy month for use seeing that we have two outings in the same week. On May 11th we will be visiting the French school to watch a play that the students there will be putting on. Also on Friday May 13th is when we are visiting a local farm. We would appreciate some volunteers to come along for the tour so if you are interested please let me know and Ill pass you along all the details.

The students have started to write their own stories and have been presenting them to the class. They are very proud of their accomplishments and I would like to recognize them for all of their offers by having a meet the author night. I was thinking that we could do this after school one day where you could stop by the school with your child and view some of the books that they have wrote. The students could sign a copy of their book for you, we would also have some students share their books. If you would be interested in attending please let me know and I will start to plan our evening of appreciation.

I also sent home on Friday a note to see if some or all of you were interested in joining a reading club. The reasoning behind this club is to promote reading over the summer months and have the students explore the many wonders that a library can offer you. I feel that if we start this process now, the students will become comfortable with the library and hopefully will want to continue to go through out the summer. Are plan is to meet every Saturday or every other Saturday at the French schools library and help the students pick out books that they are able to read, as well as to have story time, the Liberian there also puts on puppet shows. If this also interests you please let me know and we can start right away.

Thank you all for sending in the egg cartons, please continue to do so because we are still missing a few for the activity that I have planned.
Thank you all as well for your continued support, I encourage you all to continue working with your child at home with the alphabet, sounds and math additions/subtrations.
Laurie Anne