Monday-25

Memorial Day Holiday!

No School today

Tuesday-26

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

(Library books due!!)

Wednesday-27

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE (10:00am)

Thursday-28

Leopard Geckos: Science

Super Starfish:  PE

3^rd Grade:  Music

    **RECORDERS!!**

Friday-29

Team Times:

1^st Grade:  1:05-1:45

2^nd Grade: 1:45-2:25

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

1^st Grade:  Homework for Reading:  School-Home Links.  In this assignment, you will read a non-fiction book with your family and retell what you learned in your own words.      

1^st Grade:  Hopefully you’ve been practicing your spelling words every day so you’re ready for your test tomorrow.

1^st Grade:

Spelling test today!

Math homework for the past week that is due tomorrow:

P. 41-Solve & Record

P. 42-Can you make

          10? 

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd:

Homework is due today.  Please place in the note basket first thing in the morning!

__________________

Please remember to bring your LIBRARY BOOKS to

school on your library day!

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd: Harbor Heights is 55!  Bring your family & come celebrate in the Commons from

4-5 p.m.  Circus club, choir, & recorders will perform.  Special guests will speak.

2^nd grade:

Find some time today to read aloud to someone for at least 15 minutes.  Practice reading like a movie star!

2^nd:

No spelling this week.  Carefully complete your math sheets.  Recheck your work and have a parent initial it.

2^nd

No

Spelling Test

Today

3^rd grade: Math—You have 2 double sided sheets and 1 single sided sheet.  Read instructions carefully!

   No spelling this coming week!

3^rd:  Come prepared for our field trip to Penrose Point State Park.  Read the information in this Thursday folder!

3^rd:  No spelling test

Finish your homework and put your name on each sheet on all sides that you complete.

All grades:  Today try to eat fruits & vegetables in 5 different colors.  It is important to eat a rainbow of colors every day.

 Monday-18

Leopard Geckos:  Music

Super Starfish:  OLARC

(Library books due!)

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

Tuesday-19

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

(Library books due!!)

Wednesday-20

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE (10:00am)

Thursday-21

Leopard Geckos: Science

Super Starfish:  PE

3^rd Grade:  Music

    **RECORDERS!!**

Friday-22

Team Times:

1^st Grade:  1:05-1:45

2^nd Grade: 1:45-2:25

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

1^st Grade    Math:

p. 21  Totals & Missing

        Parts

p. 22  More Crayon

        Puzzles

p. 39  More Story Prob.

p. 40  How Many

        Pennies?

1^st Grade:  Have you been practicing your spelling words every day so you’ll be ready for you spelling test tomorrow?

1^st Grade:

Spelling test today!

  Reading:  With a parent read and discuss Time for Kids—Hoop Dance Champ.

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd: Talent Show today!!

**Homework is due today for all grades**

  Tonight at dinner, share with your family 4 or more amazing facts about your animal.  Have your family ask you questions about your animal.  You are the expert!

   3^rd Grade:  Look for important info in today’s (5/21) folder about the Penrose field trip next Tuesday!

1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd:  We hope you have fun plans for the Memorial Day Weekend.  Hopefully you will be getting lots of exercise!  Remember that Monday is a day off from school.  We’ll see you on Tuesday!

Put on your calendars that Friday, May 29 is the celebration of Harbor Height’s 55^th birthday.  Celebrate from 4-5 p.m. in the Commons.

2^nd & 3^rd grade:

   Optional:  If you want your animal report to be extra special, you can search at home for  photographs, maps, cutaways, & close-ups that go with your animal.  Write a caption and turn in by this Thursday for your report.

2^nd & 3^rd:  As always, do your spelling homework by tonight so you’re prepared for your spelling test tomorrow. 

   Make sure you’ve followed all directions on your math homework sheets.  Don’t forget to recheck your math—it’s a great strategy.

2^nd & 3^rd:  Spelling dictation test today for both grades!!

Book orders are due today!

Get your homework into your backpack tonight so you can turn it in tomorrow!

 Monday-4

Leopard Geckos:  Music

Super Starfish:  OLARC

*(Library books due!)

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

Tuesday-5

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

*Library books due!!)

Wednesday-6

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

*(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE (10:00am)

Thursday-7

Leopard Geckos: Science

Super Starfish:  PE

3^rd Grade:  Music

    **RECORDERS!!**

Friday-8

Team Times:

2^nd Grade: 1:45-2:25

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

2^nd & 3^rd grade:  Don’t forget to look at this sheet every day so you’re pre- pared for school in the morning!

2^nd & 3^rd:  Doing your spelling homework helps you prepare for your spelling test tomorrow!

2^nd & 3^rd:  Spelling dictation test today for both grades!!

   Finish your home-work and put it in your backpack!

2^nd & 3^rd: 

**Homework is due today for both grades**

Today you will go on an African safari by photographs—a perfect introduction to animal reports!

Some amazing facts from our animal report experts:

*When mussels die, they are immediately poisonous, so people can’t eat them.

*Harbor seals gobble down big chunks of food.

*Before a hunt, African Wild dog males make exited sounds and lick each other’s faces.

*If you get pricked by a sea urchin’s spine, don’t take it out because your skin could become infected.  Just let it dissolve because it’s made of calcium.

*When a koala is born, it’s as small as a jellybean.  As an adult, it’s two to three feet tall.

*If a tiger is hunting, it will share its food with cubs that don’t belong to it.

*Limpets let their eggs float free into the water.

*For Northern Elephant Seals, the bigger the nose, the bigger chance of getting a mate.  It swallows in big chunks.

*A sculpin’s spines are extremely painful and poisonous.

*A turkey vulture can see 40 miles away.

*An anemone can hitch a ride on a hermit crab.

*The White-handed Gibbon gets its water from its fur.

*An impala can jump up to 30 feet high.

*The walrus will use its tusk in a fight.

*Sea otters will hammer clams off of rock and collect them for dinner under their armpits.

A BIG thank you to those students who were able to do “Jobs for Jackets” to help fill the new kiosk with life jackets for those people visiting the Gig Harbor dock at Jerisich park.  Thanks for families, relatives, and friends who “hired” our students to earn their donation.

Today:  At 1:00 p.m. is the  Read & Lead Assembly to get your 1000 minute medals! 

3^rd Grade only:

Turn in your field trip permission form & $7.00 fee by today!  Chaperones must have paperwork and finger-printing done in the office asap (if you haven’t completed it earlier).

 Monday-20

Leopard Geckos:  Music

Super Starfish:  OLARC

(Library books due!)

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

             (1:05-1:45)

Tuesday-21

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  Music

Remember: RECORDERS

Library Books are also due for 3^rd grade!

Wednesday-22

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE

         (1:05-1:45 pm)

**Earth Day**

Thursday-23

Leopard Geckos: Science

Super Starfish:  PE

3^rd Grade:  Music

    **RECORDERS!!**

Friday-24

Team Times:

2^nd Grade: 1:45-2:25

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

(Wear appropriate clothes and shoes!)

Library checkout—3rd

3^rd Grade:  Math WASL today!

2^nd & 3^rd:  Have you started doing your “jobs for jackets?”  When you have finished your job and collected your money, don’t forget to draw and write about it so we can post it in the hall.  Cash donations are due by May 1.  Tell your family, friends, & relatives what you are doing.

3^rd Grade:  Math WASL today!

2^nd Grade: You should be reading aloud to someone every day for at least 15 minutes.

Practice reading fluently…just like a movie star!!!  Then fill out the READING LOG on the back of your homework sheet and turn it in on Thursday.

*Spelling dictation test today for 2^nd grade ONLY!

*If you have a chance to shop at QFC (old Thriftway) down in the Harbor today, you will get your groceries in bags decorated by HH students!

*Finish your homework tonight.  (Third grade only had math homework this week due to the WASL.)

NO GARBAGE DAY TODAY!  BRING YOUR LUNCH IN REUSABLE CONTAINERS.

**Homework is due today for both grades**

If possible, gather information about your animal by going to the public library, looking at books or magazines at home,  or going on the internet with an adult.  Then have fun reading and learning about your amazing animal!!!

This weekend work on your “Jobs for Jackets.”  Don’t forget to fill out the sheet in your neatest handwriting and drawing because we’re putting them on display!  Bring them in next week!

Coming up:

*5/8 Read and Lead Assembly-1:00 pm

*5/15 Imagination Celebration (We really need volunteers!  Fill out the form in the Thursday folder.)

 Monday-13

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

Regular schedule today

Tuesday-14

Different Specialist:

3^rd Grade:  Music from

1:05-1:45.  **Bring your recorders!**

Wednesday-15

3^rd Grade: PE

(1:05-1:45 pm)  Wear your sneakers!

Thursday-16

Different Specialist:

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

(1:05-1:45)  (Library books are due 4/21)

Friday-17

Team Time:

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

Wear your sneakers!

Regular schedule today!  Our lunch is scheduled for the same time all week:  11:30-12:00.

Look on the back of this sheet for “Brain Boosting Tips for Taking the WASL.”  Students may bring a water bottle and gum, which can only be chewed during the test.  Get plenty of rest tonight!

Reading WASL this morning!

Please do not be late to school!

Tonight:  Finish your Spelling homework in your neatest cursive to prepare for your Spelling test tomorrow.  Remember to do a little math each day so you’re not stressed out on Wednesday nights trying to finish it.

Late Arrival

Spelling test on the 20 core words!

This evening finish your homework and pack your backpack with your homework so that you’re prepared for tomorrow and ready to take your last Reading WASL.  Go over your practice tests for hints to remember.

**Homework is due today**

Reading WASL this morning!

Please do not be late to school!

For your planning, the Math WASL tests will be given next Monday and Tuesday, April 20 & 21.  Remember to review the practice tests and ask your family for practice problems.

 Regular schedule today!

   Make a plan for Sunday night so that you’re prepared to take the Math WASL on Monday morning.

Coming up:

*5/7 Peninsula Light does safety presentation for 3^rd grade

*5/8 Read & Lead awards at 1:00 pm

*5/15 Imagination Cele-

bration

*5/21 Talent Show & Crazy Hair Day

*5/26 3^rd Grade Field Trip to Penrose Park

 Monday-23

Leopard Geckos:  Music

Super Starfish:  OLARC

(Library books due!)

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

Tuesday-24

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

Wednesday-25

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE (10:00am)

Thursday-26

Leopard Geckos: Science

Super Starfish:  PE

3^rd Grade:  Music

    **RECORDERS!!**

Friday-27

Team Times:

2^nd Grade: 1:45-2:25

3^rd Grade: 9:25-10:05

2^nd & 3^rd grade:  Read & Lead ends this Thursday so get those final minutes in so you can get that 1000 minute medal at our special Read & Lead assembly.

Students are voting during OLARC this week for their favorite Washington Children’s Choice Award book.  Tell your family what book you’re choosing and why you like it the best. 

Give your family some examples of “thick” questions to ask while you’re reading.

2^nd & 3^rd:  Finish your spelling homework to prepare for your spelling test.

   To help solve math story problems:  Read the problem and visualize the action.  Retell the story, then decide whether the end result will be more or less than the amount started with.  Students can then draw a picture to match the visualizing (if needed). Next write an equation which matches the picture or problem.  The student then needs to solve the equation using the strategies we’ve learned.  (It always helps to check the answer with another strategy.)  The students then label the answer.

2^nd & 3^rd: Back to “Late Start”—10:00 am—today.

  Spelling dictation test today for both grades!!

One more evening to finish those Read & Lead minutes.  If you’ve already finished your 1000 minutes, cuddle up and enjoy the harder books that you’re able to read now.

Finish any homework and put it in your backpack so you can turn it in first thing tomorrow morning to the Note Basket. 

2^nd & 3^rd:  Final day for Read & Lead.

(This is the last day you can turn in your Read & Lead minutes!)

**Homework is due today for both grades**

There will not be a Homework sheet sent home today so you can have a great spring break. 

Remember, even when you’re traveling you can work on reading, writing a journal of your vacation, and math facts.

2^nd & 3^rd: 

   Your Spring Break begins after school today!  We’ll see you back Monday morning, April 6!  Have fun and gets lots of exercise.  Enjoy reading some good books because your reading levels have gone up!

4/10 Hawaiian Day

4/14-4/21 WASL tests scheduled for 3^rd grade

 Monday-16

Leopard Geckos:  Music

Super Starfish:  OLARC

(Library books due!)

3^rd Grade:  Tech Time

Tuesday-17

Leopard Geckos: PE

Super Starfish:  Music

3^rd Grade:  OLARC

(Library books due!!)

Wednesday-18

Leopard Geckos: OLARC

(Library books due!)

Super Starfish: Science

3^rd Grade: PE (10:00am)

Thursday-19

Noon Dismissal for

Parent/Teacher

Conferences

Friday-20

Noon Dismissal for Parent/Teacher Conferences

2^nd & 3^rd grade:

The final turn-in day of Read and Lead is Thursday, March 26.  It is important that you are reading a little bit every day!   

While you’re reading practice the comprehension strategy of asking “Thick” questions.  Here are some question starters for you: 

What if…?

Why did…?

What caused…?

Why do you think…?

2^nd & 3^rd:  Study your spelling and complete your homework before your test tomorrow!

Tonight tell your parents about  something that you are able to do in school that you are especially proud of.  Then share with them your goals for next trimester and tell them how you plan to achieve them.

Do you have a favorite Children’s Choice book so far?  Tell your parents what it is and why it’s your favorite.

2^nd & 3^rd:

Regular Start today:  9:00 am!

Spelling dictation test today for both grades!!

Wed. evening:  Finish your homework and get your Read & Lead sheet completed to turn in tomorrow morning first thing!

(3^rd Grade:  For more multiplication practice, you can go to:

www.multiplication.com)

2^nd & 3^rd: 

**Homework is due today for both grades**

*Read & Lead minutes turn-in day today.

These half days are great for finishing your Read & Lead and doing Xtra Math.  If you don’t have a computer available, practice your math facts with flash cards.  (You can always make your own!)

2^nd & 3^rd:

Prize Patrol for Read and Lead this morning.  (Read & Lead ends Thurs. March 26!  Only one week to finish your 1000 minutes.)

Coming up: 

3/27 Hawaiian Day

(wear your aloha shirt)

3/30-4/3  Spring Break

(3^rd grade:  Keep these days clear for the WASL test—April 14-30)

6/23 Last day of school