Newsletter for October 31, 2014

Happy November!

What We Learned This Week

Word Study

We studied the vowel-consonant-silent e pattern (e.g., ice) this week and compared it to previously studied syllable types: closed and open syllables.

We made vocabulary more challenging by having students write their own sentences and identify each word as a part of speech: noun, verb, or adjective.

Reading & Writing

Reading and writing were merged this week as we read through a multiple paragraph essay on recycling. Students had to identify the main idea of each sentence, often the topic sentence, but not always. Students then began to co-write our own single paragraph essays. Students brainstormed topic sentences that gave direction and shared the topic without getting into specific or supporting details. We will continue to craft these essays next week as we work towards more independent writing. This is very challenging as students are researching and writing a persuasive/opinion essay simultaneously. Writing in response to text is far more complex than our previous focus on personal narratives and is an important change introduced to 3rd grade by the Common Core.

Math

My end of quarter fact fluency assessment revealed that many students have not yet mastered the addition and subtraction facts. This second grade standard must be mastered or it will significantly interfere with multi-step and multi-digit problems. I will go over resources and strategies to help your student master addition and subtraction facts during conferences.

I introduced our first three strategies for multiplication: zeroes, ones and doubles. I use the specific math vocabulary of x groups of y (e.g., 3 x 5 = three groups of five). This language will support students understanding of multiplication as efficient addition of same sized groups. 

We interpreted addition equations as group statements and multiplication equations (e.g.,  2 + 2 + 2 = three groups of two = 3 x 2); multiplication equations (e.g., 2 x 4 = 8) as arrays; and arrays as multiplication statements.

Science

We started our matter unit in science where I introduced matter and its states. In the spirit of Halloween, we made spooky lava lamps using two liquids (oil and water), a solid (sodium bicarbonate) and a gas (carbon dioxide). We discussed the densities of each and made predictions, which we compared to our observations as we added oil, food coloring (which is just colored water with a little pigment), and Alkaseltzer to our water.

See if your student can identify the states and densities of the different components.

Visitors

The Tri-Village Rotary visited us on Friday to pass out dictionaries. Thank you!

Halloween Party

This was a blast. I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween. 

I'd love more photos if you have them. 

Important Dates and Reminders

New dates and information are indicated in red. 

Important 2nd Quarter Dates & Reminders

November 4, 2014 - No School for Students, Teacher Development Day
November 5, 2014 - Progress Reports sent home
November 6, 2014 - Early Dismissal at 11am
November 7, 2014 - Thompson Park Tree Trek Field Trip 
November 10 through 13, 2014 - Fall conferences
November 17 through 21, 2014 - District Gifted Screening 
November 25, 2014 - Scarlet and Gray Day
November 26 through 28, 2014 - No School Thanksgiving

December 1 through January 9, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
December 3, 2014 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
December 19, 2014 - Holiday parties 2pm
December 22 through January 2, 2015 - No School Winter Break

January 16, 2015 - End of second quarter
January 19, 2015 - No School Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 20, 2015 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 3rd Quarter Dates & Reminders

January 27, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
January 29, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Conferences at 11am

February 2 through 13, 2015 - Ohio Wildlife Center donation drive
February 4, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
February 9 through 13, 2015 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
February 16, 2015 - No School Presidents' Day
February 17, 2015 - Math State PBA
February 23, 2015 - English Language Arts State PBA
February 23, 2015 - AASCD

March 9 through 13, 2015 - PTO Book Sale
March 17, 2015 - 3rd Grade Musical
March 20 through 27, 2015 - No School Spring Break

April 2, 2015 - End of third quarter
April 3, 2015 - No School
April 6, 2015 - No School, teacher grading day

Important 4th Quarter Dates & Reminders

April 8, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
April 9, 2015 - Spring Picture Day
April 13 through May 22, 2015 - District Writing Diagnostic Testing
April 14, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
April 21 through 22, 2015 - English Language Arts State EOY
April 22, 2015 - Ohio Reading Achievement Assessment
April 24, 2015 - Kid Fest
April 28 through 29, 2015 - Math State EOY

May 1 through 29, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
May 9, 2015 - Wish Run
May 25, 2015 - No School Memorial Day

June 1, 2015 - Field Day
June 3, 2015 - End of fourth quarter/Last day for students, Classroom parties 12:05 till 1:05pm
June 9, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home 

Newsletter for October 17, 2014

What We Learned This Week

Next week is the end of the first quarter. I will be assessing students on what they have learned this first quarter. I will be administering and analyzing the following assessments for student growth:

1. Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) - fluency and comprehension performance levels, text or Lexile levels and instructional strategies
2. Fiction and Non-fiction comprehension assessments - literal and figurative performance levels for fiction and informational texts
3. Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (RCBM) - fluency and error rate
4. STAR Reading Assessment - nationally normed screener, comprehension and end of year performance predictor as well as instructional strategies
5. Developmental Spelling Assessment (DSA) spelling - detailed phonics assessment and instructional levels
6. Vocabulary assessment of vocabulary learned this quarter.
7. Personal narrative writing - narratives, production, convention, grammar, spelling of high frequency and multi-syllabic words
8. End of quarter math assessment - comprehensive overview of first quarter's math content
9. Fact fluency addition and subtraction facts - addition and subtraction fact fluency

I will share the results of these assessments and their associated instructional strategies at your student's conference.


Word Study
There is no new vocabulary next week due to assessments. We studied vowel-consonant teams which create a long i sound, instead of the more prevalent closed syllable short i sound when followed by a consonant(s). Patterns include -ild (e.g., wild), -ind (e.g., kind), and -igh(t) (e.g., night). We also introduced vowel-consonant-silent e pattern which also creates a long i sound (e.g., ice). We continue to study parts of speech.

Reading
We are connecting main ideas and topic sentences in our reading to our writing and are comparing and contrasting topics using Venn diagrams. Students are working with me in small groups on choosing just-right-books, fluency, decoding using a combination of sounding out strategies and context clues and building stamina and engagement. We have a broad range of readers and it is my highest priority to meet each of them where they are and determine how to maximize their growth.

Mr. Morlock answers questions about his life

Learning how to write in Braille

We are continuing our read aloud, Wonder. While this book is great for many reasons, including author's craft, point of view, "showing, not telling," and figurative language, I love it most for its messages of not limiting our definitions of people with disabilities by simply focusing on their disability and that everyone goes through difficulties, often unknown and unseen by others and sometimes just as challenging as outwardly visible challenges. In support of the first message, a community member that many of our classroom's students know, Mr. Morlock, visited to tell us about his life beyond blindness. While students were very curious about Mr. Morlock's blindness, they also learned about his childhood, growing up on a rural farm in northern Ohio, his education and how life has changed in his 86 years. Mr. Morlock taught students how to write in Braille and demonstrated reading in Braille. We hope Mr. Morlock will return soon to read with us. This was an all too rare opportunity to invite a community into our school and share our learning with them. I feel we enrich each others' lives through these exchanges.

Writing
We have continued to explore personal narratives this quarter. We will expand our writing to include research, persuasive, and expository writing. However, personal narratives create opportunities for rich, descriptive language that is harder to develop through the other forms of writing we study. Students are connecting to their reading by focusing on their topic sentences and are trying to hook the reader. With many options of what to read, writers must compete for a reader's attention and a strong topic sentence is a great way to start.

Math
Students reviewed all of the math we have studied this quarter. We also intensely reviewed place and value by looking at how many ones, tens and hundreds are in a three digit number. Many students struggle to realize there are more than 5 tens in the number 256 because they initially only think of tens as being in the tens place. We also investigated telling and showing time on analog clocks to quarter-past, half-past, quarter-till and o'clock times.

Science
We concluded our natural resources unit by comparing and contrasting renewable and non-renewable resources and studying how a non-renewable resource (oil) can pollute a renewable resource (water). Students created an oil spill by pouring a small amount of cooking oil into their "ocean." They then tried to remove the oil using pipettes, cotton balls and detergent. Students learned it takes an enormous amount of resources to clean an oil spill and it is very challenging. We also introduced density, which we will review when we study matter under physical science.

Students realized they were extracting more water than oil when they used cotton balls.

Students visited Highbanks Metropark on Friday to study earth and life science. During their time with the naturalist, students focused on earth science, discussing the many types and uses of minerals, minerals specific to Ohio and their uses from prehistory to the current day, observed erosion and shale formations, and explored the creek bed looking for fossils and discussing the rock cycle in Ohio. As always, many thanks to our wonderful volunteers. Thanks for chaperoning.

creeking

Ohio slate

fossil hunters

Students later explored life science, which we have already started through our study of trees in Thompson Park. Students explored the leaf litter for living and non-living elements, focusing on decomposers such as fungi, molds, and arthropods. We even found some small amphibians that live on decomposers. The amount of biodiversity in the leaf litter is equal to the Great Reef and it's all out our feet. Rake up some leaves and start looking for decomposers, an integral part of any food web.

sifting through leaf litter

stink bug

worm

millipede

Mr. Kerstetter sharing a gall

larva inside the gall

mushrooms

praying mantis

mushroom

Guidance

Mrs. O'Keefe visited us this week for guidance. Students learned about communication and self advocacy.

Important Dates and Reminders

New dates and information are indicated in red. 

Please visit the following link to sign up to help with our upcoming Halloween party. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa9af2fa02-halloween1

Important 1st Quarter Dates & Reminders

October 20, 21, and 22, 2014 - UA Parent Math Nights (refer to previous email)
October 20 - 24, 2014 - End of the quarter assessments. Please try to avoid absences.
October 23, 2014 - Fall picture retakes
October 24, 2014 - End of the first quarter
October 27, 2014 - No school for students, teacher grading day

Important 2nd Quarter Dates & Reminders

October 30, 2014 - UA Trick or Treating from 5:30 till 8pm
October 31, 2014 - Halloween party

November 4, 2014 - No School for Students, Teacher Development Day
November 5, 2014 - Progress Reports sent home
November 6, 2014 - Early Dismissal at 11am
November 7, 2014 - Thompson Park Tree Trek Field Trip (Please email to chaperon.)
November 10 through 13, 2014 - Fall conferences
November 17 through 21, 2014 - District Gifted Screening 
November 25, 2014 - Scarlet and Gray Day
November 26 through 28, 2014 - No School Thanksgiving

December 1 through January 9, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
December 3, 2014 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
December 19, 2014 - Holiday parties 2pm
December 22 through January 2, 2015 - No School Winter Break

January 16, 2015 - End of second quarter
January 19, 2015 - No School Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 20, 2015 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 3rd Quarter Dates & Reminders

January 27, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
January 29, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Conferences at 11am

February 2 through 13, 2015 - Ohio Wildlife Center donation drive
February 4, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
February 9 through 13, 2015 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
February 16, 2015 - No School Presidents' Day
February 17, 2015 - Math State PBA
February 23, 2015 - English Language Arts State PBA
February 23, 2015 - AASCD

March 9 through 13, 2015 - PTO Book Sale
March 17, 2015 - 3rd Grade Musical
March 20 through 27, 2015 - No School Spring Break

April 2, 2015 - End of third quarter
April 3, 2015 - No School
April 6, 2015 - No School, teacher grading day

Important 4th Quarter Dates & Reminders

April 8, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
April 9, 2015 - Spring Picture Day
April 13 through May 22, 2015 - District Writing Diagnostic Testing
April 14, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
April 21 through 22, 2015 - English Language Arts State EOY
April 22, 2015 - Ohio Reading Achievement Assessment
April 24, 2015 - Kid Fest
April 28 through 29, 2015 - Math State EOY

May 1 through 29, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
May 9, 2015 - Wish Run
May 25, 2015 - No School Memorial Day

June 1, 2015 - Field Day
June 3, 2015 - End of fourth quarter/Last day for students, Classroom parties 12:05 till 1:05pm
June 9, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home 

What We Learned This Week

There is no "What We Learned" this week as we are continuing to work on content we started last week. Please see important dates and reminders below.

Students completed the Hawk Walk this week. Thanks for all of the wonderful support!

Volunteers help students keep track of their laps. 

Happy volunteers enjoying the weather. 

Thank you volunteers! We couldn't do it without you. 

Important Dates and Reminders

New dates and information are indicated in red. 

I still have openings for families who would like to conference. Fall conferences will be the second week of November. Please visit the sign-up genius page to choose your date and time by clicking on this link: FALL CONFERENCES

Important 1st Quarter Dates & Reminders

October 13 through 17, 2014 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
October 17, 2014 - Blue and Green Day: Show your Windermere Hawk Pride

October 17, 2014- Field Trip to Thompson Park (please email if you would like to volunteer)
Students should wear comfortable walking/hiking shoes that can get muddy, long pants and layers. It is almost certain to be chilly, especially in the dense wooded areas and creek beds. Please send a sack lunch that can be completely thrown out (no thermoses or tableware).

October 20, 21, and 22, 2014 - UA Parent Math Nights (refer to previous email)

October 20 - 24, 2014 - End of the quarter assessments. Please try to avoid absences.

October 23, 2014 - Fall picture retakes
October 24, 2014 - End of the first quarter
October 27, 2014 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 2nd Quarter Dates & Reminders

October 30, 2014 - UA Trick or Treating from 5:30 till 8pm
October 31, 2014 - Halloween party

November 3 through 7, 2014 - First quarter conferences
November 4, 2014 - No School for Students, Teacher Development Day
November 5, 2014 - Progress Reports sent home
November 6, 2014 - Early Dismissal at 11am
November 7, 2014 - Thompson Park Tree Trek Field Trip (Please email if you are able to volunteer for this field trip. Thank you in advance.)
November 10 through 13, 2014 - Fall conferences
November 17 through 21, 2014 - District Gifted Screening 
November 25, 2014 - Scarlet and Gray Day
November 26 through 28, 2014 - No School Thanksgiving

December 1 through January 9, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
December 3, 2014 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
December 19, 2014 - Holiday parties 2pm
December 22 through January 2, 2015 - No School Winter Break

January 16, 2015 - End of second quarter
January 19, 2015 - No School Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 20, 2015 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 3rd Quarter Dates & Reminders

January 27, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
January 29, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Conferences at 11am

February 2 through 13, 2015 - Ohio Wildlife Center donation drive
February 4, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
February 9 through 13, 2015 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
February 16, 2015 - No School Presidents' Day
February 17, 2015 - Math State PBA
February 23, 2015 - English Language Arts State PBA
February 23, 2015 - AASCD

March 9 through 13, 2015 - PTO Book Sale
March 17, 2015 - 3rd Grade Musical
March 20 through 27, 2015 - No School Spring Break

April 2, 2015 - End of third quarter
April 3, 2015 - No School
April 6, 2015 - No School, teacher grading day

Important 4th Quarter Dates & Reminders

April 8, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
April 9, 2015 - Spring Picture Day
April 13 through May 22, 2015 - District Writing Diagnostic Testing
April 14, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
April 21 through 22, 2015 - English Language Arts State EOY
April 22, 2015 - Ohio Reading Achievement Assessment
April 24, 2015 - Kid Fest
April 28 through 29, 2015 - Math State EOY

May 1 through 29, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
May 9, 2015 - Wish Run
May 25, 2015 - No School Memorial Day

June 1, 2015 - Field Day
June 3, 2015 - End of fourth quarter/Last day for students, Classroom parties 12:05 till 1:05pm
June 9, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home

 

Newsletter for October 3, 214

What We Learned This Week

Word Study
We are continuing to learn strategies for decoding words such as identifying vowel sounds (individual vowels and vowel teams), digraphs, blends, prefixes, suffixes, etc. This week we learned initial welded sounds: -ang, -ank, -ing, and -ink. While these vowels are closed by consonant teams, they still make long vowel sounds. Typically, when a vowel is followed or "closed" by a consonant(s), the vowel will make a short vowel sound. Eventually these labor intensive exercises will transfer to fluent mental decoding. Students who are able to intuitively decode and encode words will be able to apply these spelling rules to far more complex multi-syllabic words.

We learned abbreviations for proper nouns including Road (Rd.), Boulevard (Blvd.), Street (St.), Doctor (Dr.), Avenue (Ave.), and Company (Co.). We discussed that we can only use abbreviations when they are part of a proper noun. I do ask students to avoid abbreviations when writing the days of the week and months of the year. The more practice they get spelling these commonly used proper nouns, the better.

We continue to introduce new vocabulary words in conjunction with parts of speech. While most students are able to apply the vocabulary accurately, they are still learning parts of speech. We are learning that suffixes are a hint that the word is a verb. Memorization of each week's vocabulary words is not the focus, but rather, the application of parts-of-speech practice and awareness of broader vocabulary.

Reading
I introduced Venn diagrams for comparing and contrasting, especially useful in research, comparing fiction texts, and in understanding non-fiction/informational texts.

Reading groups are meeting with me and are focusing on either fluency or comprehension skills. Students are learning strategies for choosing just right books and the importance of practicing with books that are easy for them. All students are still learning to read to varying degrees and the strategies we are learning are learned much faster with easy (appropriate/just right) texts. Many students are drawn to books that are simply too difficult for them. This ends up hampering their development as a reader as these difficult texts discourage student interest in reading, encourage skipping over difficult words, and reinforce a focus on individual words rather than a synthesis of ideas.

Reading with your child is very different and provides the opportunity for you to introduce far more complex stories as you are able to read, model, elaborate and question your student. Our read-aloud has many layers and perspectives. It is a complex book that meets the reader where they are. It covers the more obvious disability of the protagonist, but shows the emotions and complex relationships between characters, as well as growth and change. Try to engage your student in discussion about Wonder.

 

We wrote precepts from our read-aloud's companion title, 365 Days of Wonder, Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts, with sidewalk chalk on the blacktop during Windermere's Walk-A-Mile service learning project. It has been very rewarding to hear students discussing their precepts and even creating their own. Teachers and students alike were engaged in conversations about the precepts during recess on Thursday and Friday. This has been a great first step towards building a culture of compassion and perseverance, the focus of our chosen precepts.

Writing
We finished the writing process steps of planning and drafting. At this point in time, I'm focusing on convention: indented paragraphs, complete sentences, and correct grammar, particularly verb tense agreements. Many students wrote their stories in present and future tense so we are learning about past tense verbs. Once convention has been established, we will begin to develop author's strategies for enriching our writing (e.g., figurative language, point-of-view, etc.).

Math
Students should be able to find the sum of four digit numbers using partial sums or the "efficient algorithm." Importantly, they should label regrouping appropriately as "carry the ten (hundred, thousand)" instead of the "one."

Students began solving differences by counting up on an empty number line. Most young mathematicians are far more comfortable counting up than down. In the example problem, "Max has 78 Pokeymon cards and Mollie has 52 Pokeymon cards. What is the difference in the number of cards?" students would follow this process:
- Begin by writing the smaller value, 52 on an empty or blank number line.
- Count up by tens, drawing large hoops or loops to represent each ten (62, 72).
- Finish by counting up by ones, making small hoops/loops (73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78).
- Sum the tens (20).
- Sum the ones (6).
- Sum these two values for the answer (26).

This method can also be used for finding sums. If you wanted to find the sum of their combined Pokeymon cards, you should start with the larger number (for efficiency's sake) and add on the other addend.

We then began utilizing expanded notation to solve for differences. Given the same problem as above, students would decompose their numbers into expanded notation.
- 78 = 70 + 8
- 52 = 50 + 2
This builds a good understanding of place and value and heads off a common problem where many students will interchange values from one value to the other (e.g., 72 - 58). This is particularly evident when there is not a large enough value in the ones to do direct subtraction.
In our case, the students will first find the difference between the ones (8 - 2 = 6) and then the difference between the tens (70 - 50 = 20) and sum them (20 + 6 = 26). The order of ones and then tens is important as solving the difference in the smaller place (the ones) tells the student whether or not they have to regroup.

For example, "If Grace reads 67 pages and Mary reads 93 pages, what is the difference in the number of pages they read?" Students will rewrite both values in expanded notation.
- 93 = 90 + 3
- 67 = 60 + 7
Students can not take 7 away from 3 (at least not without entering into negative numbers) so they must regroup by taking a ten from the 90 and giving it to the three.
- 93 = 80 + 13
Now students can find the difference between 13 and 7.
There are infinite variations on all of these strategies and I encourage students to share theirs. There is one right answer in many, but many strategies. Many students are using the commutative and associative properties to help solve these kinds of problems (Kudos to the 2nd grade team!).

This is a little difficult to explain in text, but hopefully you get the picture. The purpose of introducing these less efficient strategies is to develop mastery and deep understanding so students really know what they're doing when they employ short-cut or efficient strategies. Please feel free to stop by if you would like me to demonstrate these in person.

Important Dates and Reminders

New dates and times are indicated in red. 

Fall conferences will be the second week of November. Please visit the signup genius page to choose your date and time by clicking on this link.

FALL CONFERENCES

Important 1st Quarter Dates & Reminders

October 6 through 10, 2014 - Hawk Walk for the Playground
October 8, 2014 - Ohio Reading Achievement Assessment (Please avoid scheduling absences on this date)
October 10, 2014 - Blue and Green Day: Show your Windermere Hawk Pride
October 13 through 17, 2014 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
October 17, 2014 - Blue and Green Day: Show your Windermere Hawk Pride
October 17, 2014- Field Trip to Thompson Park (please email if you would like to volunteer)
October 23, 2014 - Fall picture retakes
October 24, 2014 - End of the first quarter
October 27, 2014 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 2nd Quarter Dates & Reminders

As cold and flu season is beginning, and the enterovirus D68 has appeared in Ohio, we want to remind our families of our policy when a student is sick or not feeling well.  It is suggested that students not return to school if they have had a fever, diarrhea or have vomited in the past 24 hours.  This helps to prevent the spread of bacterial/viral infections.  At school, we review with our students appropriate ways to guard a sneeze or cough.  In addition, we have students use hand sanitizer before their lunch period, and throughout their day, as needed.  Of course, too, in our bathroom we have signs posted as a reminder for students to wash their hands.  If you would like additional information on the enterovirus D68, please visit  the following Children’s Hospital link:  http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/enterovirus-d68-infographic

October 30, 2014 - UA Trick or Treating from 5:30 till 8pm

October 31, 2014 - Halloween party - Note change to previous years: We will NOT have an extended lunch this year. Students will have a typical day till 1:15. They will get dressed independently at school. Costumes requiring hair and make-up will be difficult. Hopefully most costumes can simply be worn over their clothing. We will begin our Halloween parade at 1:30 and our party will begin at 2:00.

November 3 through 7, 2014 - First quarter conferences
November 4, 2014 - No School for Students, Teacher Development Day
November 5, 2014 - Progress Reports sent home
November 6, 2014 - Early Dismissal/Conferences at 11am
November 10 through 13, 2014 - Fall conferences
November 17 through 21, 2014 - District Gifted Screening
November 25, 2014 - Scarlet and Gray Day
November 26 through 28, 2014 - No School Thanksgiving

December 1 through January 9, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
December 3, 2014 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
December 19, 2014 - Holiday parties 2pm
December 22 through January 2, 2015 - No School Winter Break

January 16, 2015 - End of second quarter
January 19, 2015 - No School Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 20, 2015 - No school, teacher grading day

Important 3rd Quarter Dates & Reminders

January 27, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
January 29, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Conferences at 11am

February 2 through 13, 2015 - Ohio Wildlife Center donation drive
February 4, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
February 9 through 13, 2015 - Collection days for Box Tops for Education
February 16, 2015 - No School Presidents' Day
February 17, 2015 - Math State PBA
February 23, 2015 - English Language Arts State PBA
February 23, 2015 - AASCD

March 9 through 13, 2015 - PTO Book Sale
March 17, 2015 - 3rd Grade Musical
March 20 through 27, 2015 - No School Spring Break

April 2, 2015 - End of third quarter
April 3, 2015 - No School
April 6, 2015 - No School, teacher grading day

Important 4th Quarter Dates & Reminders

April 8, 2015 - Early Dismissal/Teacher Development at 1pm
April 9, 2015 - Spring Picture Day
April 13 through May 22, 2015 - District Writing Diagnostic Testing
April 14, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home
April 21 through 22, 2015 - English Language Arts State EOY
April 22, 2015 - Ohio Reading Achievement Assessment
April 24, 2015 - Kid Fest
April 28 through 29, 2015 - Math State EOY

May 1 through 29, 2015 - STAR Reading and Math Diagnostic Testing
May 9, 2015 - Wish Run
May 25, 2015 - No School Memorial Day

June 1, 2015 - Field Day
June 3, 2015 - End of fourth quarter/Last day for students, Classroom parties 12:05 till 1:05pm
June 9, 2015 - Progress Reports sent home