**Dollar dress down day is tomorrow.  For $1 your student can dress down and not wear their uniform.  Clothing must still follow dress code rules. Clothing must have sleeves, no short shorts, no flip flops, etc. Money is turned into the red POQA Donation bin in the classroom first thing in the morning**
Tomorrow, Friday, September 25th, is a $1 Dress-Down Day and Early 1:00 Release! 
1-  Check your child’s Homework folder nightly. Return them with their ” BOOK BUDDY BAG” every day to get them a new reading book. If their form isn’t signed they read the book, they will keep the same book. (Or if your child doesn’t turn it in the bin every morning with their homework folder)

2– FRIDAY:  
   Reading Homework due
   Spelling and sort test

3- Help us earn playground equipment by collecting Box Tops and Campbell’s soup labels

4- Our Scholastic Book Order is due September 25th.  Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is N8TKQ: Scholastic Book Club

5- Help support STEM: Family Portrait Fundraiser

6- We have the STEM Lab on Monday afternoon.  There were a handful of students that were “kicked” out of the lab for disruptive, disrespectful behavior.  Please help to remind your students that this is a very neat educational experience that most students do not get the opportunity of having.  Additionally, that it is very important to follow the rules and expectations of the school to respect the school, classroom, others, and yourself.  Thank you for your continuing efforts to assist us curbing this issue. 

Dear Parents,

     Welcome to the Tower of Books Challenge, an independent reading challenge for your child! Here’s how it works:

     The goal for your student is to read all of the books from the categories listed on the paper sent home, with the option of “stacking up” to other lists that will be available.  Each student will check off one of the boxes each time a book is read.  After checking off 5 boxes, it’s time for him/her to add on to… The Tower of Books, which will be displayed outside the library for all to see.  When a student is ready to add to the Tower, he/she must complete the following steps:

  1. Bring in his/her list, signed by a parent, to the library

  2. Get a book template

  3. Fill in the information for one of the books read

  4. Fold the template & glue it into its 3-D shape

  5. Receive a prize (Prizes will only be given when the book has been filled out, folded, & brought back to the library.)

     Each class will be competing against the other classes in their grade to see which class will be the “master stackers”.  At the end of the year, the classes with the highest stacks will be awarded certificates & a small prize.

     Your children will hopefully get a “taste” of some different genres of books they may not have read before, all while having fun keeping track of their reading & watching the stacks grow.

  Thank you for your support with this!