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Successful Celebration

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I’m sure that the parents who witnessed their child’s performance on Friday were as pleased as I was with how our Writer’s Celebration turned out, congratulations 5KP, you made me very proud. Thank You parents for your many contributions.

With under three weeks to go now, we teachers are working hard on keeping the students remaining focused during the journey to the ‘finish line’. We have our Invention Unit to finish up as well as math work from a combination of Unit 11 and 12. We’ll also be doing some final D.R.A. testing to see if reading levels have improved over the course of the year. The main focus however will be on several extra-curricular events and activities such as our Step Up day this Wednesday between 8 and 10 am where the students will spend that time in the Middle School looking at next year’s subjects and meeting teachers.

Our Summer Sizzler and Moving Up Ceremony will be the main focus of the short week after our Dragon Boat Festival. We look forward to seeing you on Friday the 10th at 10 am as your students celebrate their transition from Elementary to Middle School.

Don’t forget… If you want to order a yearbook…

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Science, Publishing Parties and Mooncakes

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Wow, what a busy and exciting time it is here at S.A.S. right now. I really hope that soccer day doesn’t get rained out tomorrow 5KP…keep your fingers crossed…

News Just In…
Dear Parents and Students,

We are canceling today’s games but are rescheduling for Friday the 24th (Tomorrow). Please inform all students to bring warmer clothes and perhaps a second set of dry clothes to put on afterward.

We at S.A.S. PD will take this opportunity to better prepare for Friday’s games by setting up additional tents for cover and remarking the fields.

The weather forecast for today calls for 40% chance of rain while tomorrow is only 20% chance.

Please make sure kids are dressed warm enough on Friday.

Thanks again for your understanding and continued support.

Todd Parham (Athletic Director)

Here is the revised schedule for Friday’s Soccer Day

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DON’T PANIC 5KP the math test will NOT be rained out!

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SPIRIT WEEK is next week leading up to our week off for the October National Day Holiday
Don’t forget to wear your house shirts next Monday for the start of Spirit Walk at 1pm. If you don’t have one you will be able to get one tomorrow or Friday during homeroom time.
We won’t need to wear any twins clothes on Tuesday as we are ALL going to look the same in our soccer uniforms as we head off to our EXPO field trip! (Two volunteers still needed please)
Wear something crazy on Wacky Wednesday
Thursday is GOING TO BE FANTASTIC, Pajama Day is my absolute favorite day of the year!

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News of the Moment

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Hello 5KP families

The class are enjoying preparing their first personal narrative for publishing. Using some of the new tools I was taught about at the Mac conference last Thursday and Friday we have been reading each others work, saving the work as a Pages Document and then using Voice Candy to give feedback to our writing partner. Ask the kids about it, they really worked hard. We will hold our first publishing party next Monday. It would be great if we could have some volunteers to send in a few treats for the kids. Please mail me if you are able to make brownies or cupcakes or send in some juice, pop-corn or potato chips, we would really appreciate it and then we will celebrate by sharing our stories aloud with each other.We are about half way through our second math unit and I anticipate having our second unit test first thing on Thursday the 23rd of September. That week is a busy week with our publishing party on Monday, school photos on either Monday the 20th or Tuesday the 21st (times to follow), an elementary assembly at 2 pm on Tuesday (you are always welcome to attend), our day off from school on Wednesday the 22nd and our first soccer day of the year on Thursday the 23rd, starting out on the fields at 10 am, please join us if you are able, we play about 5 matches between 10 am and 1.30 pm (details to follow).

All of these dates are in the google calendar at the left of this screen and are updated regularly.

All new students have now been put into their school houses, either Puma, Dolphin, Bear or Falcon so check out who is where.

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Finally, if you are anything like me, you will sometimes find it difficult to get your child organized in the morning. Some of the students have been coming to school without their writer’s or reader’s notebooks, their study-links or other things they need for the day. I found this link handy in my own life and wonder if it may be helpful in yours. The site, unclutterer.com is in my useful sites category too on the right of the screen as I have followed it for a few years; there is always something handy on there to help me or my family/my class become more organized.

I look forward to perhaps seeing some of you at the S.A.S. swim meet of the P.T.S.A. barbecue this Saturday. Over and Out!