TUESDAY: EARLY RELEASE & "Dress like an old person day"
Remember, the older you look the better! (But please make sure your outfit will still allow you to focus during the school day and do your best during academic times!)
Our Kids who Care total thus far is $54.01. Please donate and help us reach our goal of $3,000 by Friday.
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one” -- Mother Theresa
Bring our MATH STUDIES home and apply them to real life by measuring at least 10 object in your home to the nearest inch. REPLY to this POST listing your name, objects measured, and inches for each. Don't forget to LABEL your measurements with INCHES.
Who: Students and Families of Indian Trail
What: Participating in our annual 'Kids Who Care' fundraising event
When: January 14 - 18
Why: We are trying to raise $3000 to support the students at a school
in Staten Island. These students and their families suffered damage
and loss after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast. Our donations will
be used to buy school supplies that were lost in the storm.
How: Show you care by participating in our Spirit Days! Follow the
week's events below. Bring donations to school any day next week.
Special Event: Friday, January 18th
Come to Indian Trail for a bagel breakfast in the lunchroom. Make a
donation and enjoy
breakfast with classmates and teachers.
Spirit Week -- January 14-18
Monday
-We are head over heels about helping
Sandy victims.
Wear one color head-to-toe.
Tuesday
-Our age is rising while we are raising
money.
Dress like an old person
Wednesday
-Hats off to people who are rebuilding
areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Wear a hat today.
Thursday
-We’re fans of helping Hurricane Sandy
victims.
Wear your favorite sport’s shirt.
Friday
-Let’s raise their spirits!
Wear your Indian Trail spirit wear
*Come to Indian Trail for a bagel breakfast in the lunchroom. Make a
donation and enjoy breakfast with classmates and teachers.
The 2013 NSSD 112 read-a-thon (iRead) is here! In lieu of our usual monthly reading calendar for homework, we will be using the iRead recording form to document our reading between now and the end of the contest (so that you don't have to record what you read twice on two different documents). An informational note was sent home earlier this week with complete details for this event as well as the recording sheet.
Join other students and some Indian Trail teachers to READ, READ, READ!
Come before school, during lunch recess or stay late on the scheduled dates and times to read and record minutes for the iRead for 112 Foundation program. Earn up to 465 minutes for your 112 Foundation iRead reading log!
Students must:
1. Bring books with them to read for the entire time
they are participating in the iTune into Reading session.
2. NOT disrupt the reading atmosphere or they will be asked to leave.
3. Read the entire time
4. Write down the minutes on their official iRead form so the host teacher can initial the
entry. This is a critical part to the program.
Students may be dropped off at the front door at Indian Trail for morning iTune into Reading.
They will be directed to that day’s location. Students who attend the after school sessions must
be picked up at 4:30 in the carpool line. There is no extracurricular bus for this voluntary
reading program.
Students do not need to sign up, you just need to show up and READ, READ, READ.
Every time a student attends a session to read and record a time, the student will be given a
popcorn coupon that can be redeemed at school during designated popcorn times.
To DOWNLOAD the original informational letter and events flier, click BELOW.
| ituneintoreading2013.pdf |
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| File Type: | pdf |
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Kids who care week is next week (January 14 - 18). We have been linked to a school in Staten Island who was affected by Hurricane Sandy. Our goal is to raise $3000 to purchase school supplies to aid in their rebuilding. More blog posts with dates about spirit week events will follow. Thank you for supporting this great (and needy) cause!
Today we ROCKED OUT with a song about area and perimeter (set to the tune that MANY of you parents will most likely remember from the 90s!!!). We spent our "Martian Math Friday" APPLYING the skills of addition and multiplication through measurement explorations with area and perimeter. Listen/watch the song below so that you can sing along with your kids to help them remember that we ADD to find PERIMETER OUTSIDE and MULTIPLY to find AREA INSIDE!
Weekend Challenge (5 DOJO Points): If your child listens to the song with you, have him or her COMMENT on this blog post describing the rules for PERIMETER and AREA that they learned in the song! Any other useful information (like that area involves square units) will be additional bonus points!!!
Our BLAST OFF BANK and GALAXY MALL will "be open" next FRIDAY (12/21), so this is a great way for your astro cadet to earn extra DOJO points before then to cash in and buy goodies before our break!!
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