Announcements

5/11/26

Dear Families,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas!!

Here’s what’s going on:

• There is a board meeting tonight at 5:30. Please see the school website for the Google Meet link.

• We made it through CAASPP testing week! These kids did such a great job, they worked so hard! Thank you for all of your fantastic snack donations and support; it made the week so much better!

• Open House is Wednesday, May 20. The Fieldbrook Educational Foundation will provide a hot dog and hamburger dinner at 5:30, and classroom visitation is from 6:00–7:00. Please remember that students must be with their adult at all times, and all school rules still apply.

• Dan the Poetry Man will be here all week teaching us about poetry.

• There will be no school Friday, May 22 or Monday, May 25.

• We are looking for teachers for mini classes! Please contact the office if you are interested in leading one or would like more information. Thank you!

Please read the updates from the office for more school information and upcoming events.

I think that is all for now! Have a wonderful week!

Take care,
Liz Kadle
[email protected]

* Dear 3rd and 4th Grade Families,

Our class will be starting a “Cardboard Challenge.” This is a fun STEAM activity that we will work on over the next few weeks. It is an integrated lesson involving science, technology, engineering, art, and math, along with a little writing. Each group of students will use the Engineering Design Process to build a functioning, arcade style game. They will build these games out of cardboard and recycled household items. When the students finish their arcade games, we will have a game day, and families will be invited to come and play.

I am asking, if you’re able, for donations of recycled items for this project. We are looking for things like plastic or paper cups, paper towel and toilet paper tubes, plastic lids of any size, lots of tape of any kind, and any other recycled materials that could be used to create a functional and creative arcade game. Please do not send glass items.

I am including a link to the video we will be watching as a whole class if you would like to see the idea behind this Cardboard Challenge:

Caine’s Arcade Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&t=588s

We will keep you updated as we move along with this fun and exciting project.

Thank you for your help!

* Scholastic Book orders, here’s how it works: I’ll send home flyers throughout the year. If you decide to place an order, you can do that through our class ordering page. Your books will arrive at school about 10 days after I submit our classroom order. If you don’t want to order online, you can send your order in with a check and I will send it in.