Resources
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Reminders
May 1st - Field Trip to the Youth Science Institute @ Alum Rock Park
May 15th - STEAM Expo 6:00-8:00pm.
June 1st- Early Dismissal 1:37pm.
June 7th- Early Dismissal 1:37pm.
June 8th- Last day of school- Early Dismissal 12:30pm.
Reader’s Workshop: In Reader’s Workshop, students have been learning about Poetry. They have learned where poets get inspiration for the poems they write. They are learning the habits of being a reader of poetry. By reading poems many times, students have learned to visualize, or create a picture in their mind, about the imagery the poet is trying to create.
Writer’s Workshop: In Writer’s Workshop, students have brainstormed ideas about things they like, care about, and notice to find inspiration for their poems. Students went outside to notice, observe, and jot what they heard and saw. They started writing poems about people or animals they care about. Students are learning to craft their poems and use other poets as inspiration.
Math Workshop: In Math Workshop, students have been working on foundational multiplication skills. They have used equal groupings of objects and arrays to understand that multiplication is repeated addition. Later in the week, students began to look at polyhedrons and identify them by their faces and vertices.
Habitat Preservation PBL: Our conservationists watched a launch video this week that introduced them to our PBL driving question. Check out our launch video on our website. Students chose a habitat that they would like to research and create a way to inform the community about how we can preserve it.
Garden: Students went to the garden this week with Ms. Jennifer to learn more about composting. Students explored soil, did a scavenger hunt, played a matching/sort game and used an iPad app to learn about plant growth.
Happenings
Important Reminders
Welcome to the 2018-2019 School Year!
All families must complete Residency Verification again (even if you did it in June). Our office is open for Residency Verification on the following dates and times:
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Everyone must complete residency verification in August in order for students to be placed in a class. All verifications must be done in person.
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Grades 1-5 Class lists posted: Sunday, August 12th, 10:00am
- Kindergarten Class lists posted: Wednesday, August 15th, 5:00pm (note this adjustment)
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School starts August 16th, 8:30am
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If a student is on Open Enrollment and is not in school the first day of school, they forfeit their seat.
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Kindergarten Schedule the first 14 days of school are:
August 16th: 8:30am-10:10am
August 17th-September 5th: 8:30 am-12:11pm
September 6th: Kindergarten begins full day: 8:30 am-2:26 pm
Back-to School Night, Grade 5: August 21
7:00-7:45pm
Back-to-School Night, Grades K-4, August 28th
6:00-6:30pm K-2nd
6:30-7:00pm, Principal's Message
7:00-7:30pm, 3rd-4th
GARDEN BLOG
Our first general meeting for new and returning families interested in the Central Park STEAM Robotics Team for 2018-19 will be Tuesday, August 21st at 6:30PM in the Multipurpose Room.
Agenda will cover:
1) General information on our parent booster club.
2) Overview of various competition tracks and introduction of leads.
3) Event planning for 2018-19
4) Social time breakout for families to form teams and trade contact info.
Spotlight
Team Chameleon
We nurture the development of the whole child who is then inspired to continually expand all aspects of his/her being (mind, body, heart) and is empowered to improve the world for others. We build habits of mind and ways of being that are caring, curious, reflective and visionary.
Curious
Creative
and Inspired!!!
