Newsletter

HI,

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend. 

Food Drive: Thank you for donating for our food drive.  We donated about 300 items to the Round Rock Serving Center.  

Mentors: We had a great time with our mentors on Tuesday.  We will create a book about them. Each child will write a page about their mentor and we will include photos. We will print a few copies of  our book to keep in the classrooms and we will give each mentor a book.  We enjoy learning from them and playing games with them and the mentors look forward to coming to see the kids each month. It is a win/win situation!

Monthly Reading Challenge for April is to read an award winning book. (novel-about 100 pages) Mrs. Smith has also given the students an April Book Bingo Challenge. They can win food coupons for Mighty Fine and other places for completing the Book Bingo. The kids can turn in notecards for books read to have them count for the 40 Book Challenge. Have fun and keep reading!!!!!

*Reading Response Letters will be due on Thursday this week, since we don't have school on Friday.

Field Trip forms came home on Thursday.  The permission slip is pink. We will travel to the Bob Bullock Museum on Tuesday, May 2.  Let me know if you want to be a volunteer chaperone for the trip.  Be sure that you are up to date with your Volunteer Application through RRISD and are an approved volunteer.  Here is the link: RRISD volunteer application

Report Cards also came home on Thursday.  Please return the envelope and one copy signed.

Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament-On May 7, we will participate in a kickball tournament against Gattis, Blackland Prairie, and Cactus Ranch Elementary Schools. To play, fill out the form and bring it in with $10.  All money will go to Copprome Orphanage in Honduras. We will also collect food for the Round Rock Serving Center. Our sponsors will provide you with a FCE Kickball t-shirt to wear on the day of the event. When you register, you will get an email with a google form to fill out t-shirt sizes and give you more information.  You can create your own team or register and we will place you on a team. We can't wait to see you there!!!!!! Ask me or Mrs. Shogan if you have any  questions.

FCE Coyote Carnival-April 21-Please send in items and/or gift cards for our Sweet Treats Class Auction Basket.  Thank you!!! We will be selling all-access wristbands and raffle tickets at DISCOUNTED prices on the following days:

April 7th, April 12th, and April 13th. Food will be sold the night of the carnival - check out this flyer for all the details! Questions?  Please contact Laila Gregory at fcepta.carnival@gmail.com.

Volunteers needed for the Carnival on April 21-We cannot pull off this huge event without your help!

• We need 107 Adult volunteer hours and we only have 42% filled.  Even if you can’t help the evening of the carnival, we need lots of help during the day, too!

Adult Volunteers -

• We need another 96 Student volunteer hours so please have your middle school and/or high school students sign up here
• If you can’t give your time, please consider volunteering baked goods for our Bake Sale -
• Ask your child’s teacher if they need help putting together their silent auction item
• Ask your child’s homeroom parent if they need help putting together the class basket for the raffle

Please contact Danielle Martinez at fcepta.volunteer@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Read about our week:

Reading-We are continuing to read Number the Stars. We are enjoying our book club books and are meeting with our groups to discuss the plot, tricky words, questions, the characters, the theme, and make predictions.  We read The Butterfly this week and wrote responses about it. This book is about a girl in France during WWII who discovers that her mother is working with the resistance and hiding Jewish families in their basement.  The story is based on the lives of author, Patricia Polacco's family.  This week, we will continue reading our book club books, do some STAAR practice, and will read a book called Baseball Saved Us which is about the Japanese Internment Camps.  Ask your child about his/her reading.

Writing-We will continue to work on poems, narratives, and expository pieces for Rising Star and we will write about our mentors.

Spelling/Vocabulary-We will learn about and practice using multiple meaning words and dictionary definitions this week as part of our word study.  Practice on Quizlet and we will have a test on Thursday. https://quizlet.com/class/3493745/  Look for the set called Multiple Meaning Words.  We will have a test on 4/21/17 on the Reading Review Words and Academic Vocabulary for Reading Words.

Social Studies-Texas Heroes Projects-We will begin researching a Texas Hero for a project due on April 24, 2017.  The kids will choose a hero, will research that hero, and choose a way to present the hero to the class.  The PM class already brought home information about the project and chose their heroes.  The AM class will do this on Monday.  This will give us all a chance to research and be creative as we learn about some important people in Texas history.

Dates to remember:

Monday, April 10-Wear College Shirts, Writing Club from 2:50-3:50

Wednesday, April 12-Family Night at Zaxby's

Thursday, April 13-Reading Response Letters Due, Multiple Meaning Words Test, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.

Friday, April 14-No School-Keep reading and enjoy time with family and friends.

Monday, April 17-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50-Rising Star Entries due to teachers

Friday, April 21-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Vocabulary Test on Reading Vocabulary Words. Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Kickball Tournament Registration Due-FCE Coyote Carnival from 5:30-9:00  

Monday, April 24-Wear College Shirts, Writing Club from 2:50-3:50-Bond Election Early Voting Opens

Friday, April 28-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green.STEAM DAY-Presenters needed- contact lorilyn_brown@roundrockisd.org or laura_queton@roundrockisd.org.

volunteers needed: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4aa8ab2aaaf58-forest

Monday, May 1-Wear College Shirts, Service Club from 2:50-3:50

Tuesday, May 2-4th Grade Field Trip to the Bob Bullock Museum

Friday, May 5-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Sunday, May 7-Kids Kicking Out Hunger Kickball Tournament 12-4pm at Gattis Elementary School

Monday, May 8-STAAR Testing-4th grade Math-No Writing Club

Tuesday, May 9-STAAR Testing-4th grade Reading

Thursday, May 11-Rising Star Night-6:00 pm

Friday, May 12-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 15-Wear College Shirts, Last Service Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Friday, May 19-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green-Field Day 4th Grade-12:30-2:30

Monday, May 22-Wear College Shirts, Last Writing Club of the year from 2:50-3:50

Thursday, May 25-Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast-7:30, PTA General Meeting at 8:00

Friday, May 26-Reading Response Letters Due, SpellingTest, Be sure to turn in completed reading logs. Wear FCE shirts or purple or green

Monday, May 29-No school-Memorial Day

Thursday, June 1-Last Day of School- End of the year party TBA

Thank you for sharing your child with me.  Let me know if you have any concerns.

Sincerely,

Pam