April 25th, 2017

Greetings,
     We are down to less than 4 weeks of school. I can hardly believe how fast this year has went by. Our last day of school is scheduled for May 18th. We will be asking students to turn in their library books and chromebooks by May 5th. Students will need to turn in their charger with their
chromebooks.
      Please try to have your child at school every day over the next two weeks for testing. We will complete our end of year DRA and SRI testing. Students that have earned every blue ribbon in Study Island for math and reading will earn a blue ribbon the last week of school. Several students have already accomplished this goal. Students may work on their Study Island ribbons at home in the evenings. Be sure to ask your child about his/her progress with their ribbons. They can show you what they have earned so far on their chrome books.
      Summer School will be May 30-June 23 at Mathews. You can find more information and the registration can be found here: http://www.nixapublicschools.net/domain/384 We hope you can join us!
       We have some special ABC days scheduled for the remainder of the year. Each day we will do a special activity with a letter in the alphabet. For example; B-bubble day, C-chalk day. This week we will have bubble day on Tuesday and chalk day on Wednesday.
       I want to thank all of the parents who joined us on the field trip last week to Smallin Cave. We got a little wet, but we still had a good time. We learned some interesting facts about the Osage Indians and the Civil War. I hope you enjoyed the photos that were sent to you through Seesaw.
      I will not be making behavior charts for our red folders for the remainder of the year. If there is an issue with a student, I will contact parents through email. Due to being a paper free school we have not used our red folders much this year and we will probably not need them to much for the rest of the year as well. So no worries if you do not see a red folder sent home.
     We will have the mile run in P.E. on Wednesday of this week. Please be sure that students wear tennis shoes.

Important Dates

4/20 2nd Grade field trip to Smallin Cave

4/24 to 4-28 MAP testing for grades 3-4

4/24  SOARing Assembly

5/12 Field Day
5/19 1/2 Day of School--dismiss @ 12:40--Last day of school

5/30 to 6/23 Summer School