It was great to see many of you at the Music Festival on Friday. The students did a wonderful job! I loved the post card theme that Mrs. Moen came up with! I hope everyone noticed the note in Friday Folders about the space project. To go along with our space unit, students are expected to do an at home project. The note listed several options for the students to choose from. If your child has an idea that is not on the list, please have them see me for approval before they begin working on it. These projects are going to be due by May 10th. If your child finishes early, please feel free to send it in to school. I also sent a note home earlier in the week asking for Oreos and frosting. We will be using these to do an activity about the phases of the moon. Some families have already sent Oreos or frosting in, so thank you! We still need two or three more containers of frosting, and about four more packages of Oreos.

Book Fair Help
The book fair is starting this week, and Mrs. Begley is still in need of volunteers. If you are available to help out, please contact her at dbegley@orionschools.us. I know she will really appreciate the help! :)

School Carnival
The school carnival is on Friday! Please send forms in for punch cards, pizza orders, pop/cake/cupcake donations, and volunteer times. I also want to remind everyone that Friday is a half day. I will be volunteering at the carnival, so I hope to see all of you there!

The Week Ahead
English: We will continue our poetry unit. The students have written some beautiful poetry in the last couple of weeks. I can't wait to send it home so you can read your child's work! We will also continue learning about pronouns.
Math: We will learn to identify a fractional part of a set, determine age, multiply a one-digit number by a two-digit number using mental computation, identify right, obtuse, or acute angles, name triangles by angle size, and measure line segments using millimeters.
Reading: My reading class will be reading a story called, The Armadillo from Amarillo. We will continue to look for cause and effect within the text, we will practice rereading for clarification, we will make inferences about the characters, we will work on identifying the rhyming words within the story, and we will also learn the meaning of the prefixes con- and com-.
Social Studies: We will learn that different countries have different cultures. We will also learn how to read and make a product map.
Science: We will continue our space unit.

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. The weather is so wonderful today, and tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful, too! Please feel free to contact me at bcalcott@orionschools.us, or you can leave me a voicemail by calling the school (ext. 1332).