Longbranch Family Newsletter
Week of May 22nd
Themed Days All Week!!
Monday: Longbranch Pride Day
Wear ANY Longbranch shirt on Monday.
Tuesday: Go Gray in May for Brain Tumor Awareness
We have a sweet 1st grader who has survived a brain tumor. We'd like him to know we stand with him in awareness of persons with brain tumors across the globe. Let's find a cure!!
Wear gray on Tuesday.
Wear gray on Tuesday.
Wednesday: 60's Throwback Day--PEACE OUT!
Peace out! We're outta here. If you have some rad 60's gear around the house, let's wear it today.
Everyone please wear your Our Future is Bright Shirts for t-shirt signing.
Shhhhhh!!! It's also Peace Out Patty Day. Staff will be in tie dye. It's Mrs. Giesler's last day at Longbranch. She is about to enter retirement mode so we're creating a special day just for her. Peace Out, Patty!
Everyone please wear your Our Future is Bright Shirts for t-shirt signing.
Shhhhhh!!! It's also Peace Out Patty Day. Staff will be in tie dye. It's Mrs. Giesler's last day at Longbranch. She is about to enter retirement mode so we're creating a special day just for her. Peace Out, Patty!
Summer Academic Work
Our kids brains need to work out and need to stay in shape just like our biceps or quads do. If you take 8 weeks off from training for a marathon, you likely will not be able to finish on race day and if you do, you'll be sore and paying for that time off. The same is true for summer learning loss. Our kids worked WAY too hard this year to slide back over the summer.
Please have students read for 20 minutes a day this summer. We'd like them to start with their recommended summer book that you will find in their backpack on Wednesday. After that book is completed, please keep reading.
At least once a week, ask students to write a reflection of their reading. What did they read? What character interested them most this week? Or have them write about an experience they had during the week. Students in grades 1-5 are all trained on writing paragraphs. Students in kindergarten have learned to write a beginning sentence, a middle sentence, and an ending sentence. It's not necessary for kids to write 5 paragraph essays this summer. Paragraphs are great.
Also, just a reminder that students entering 3rd grade should know their addition math facts fluently and accurately within 3 seconds. Students entering 4th grade should know their multiplication facts fluently and accurately within 3 seconds. Students entering 5th should also be fluent in multiplication facts. If your child is struggling with either concept moving into the next grade, it will be necessary to practice this summer.
Fluent in math means “fast and accurate.” It might also help to think of fluency as meaning the same thing as when we say that somebody is fluent in a foreign language: when you’re fluent, you flow. Fluent isn’t pausing, stumbling, or reversing oneself.
Please have students read for 20 minutes a day this summer. We'd like them to start with their recommended summer book that you will find in their backpack on Wednesday. After that book is completed, please keep reading.
At least once a week, ask students to write a reflection of their reading. What did they read? What character interested them most this week? Or have them write about an experience they had during the week. Students in grades 1-5 are all trained on writing paragraphs. Students in kindergarten have learned to write a beginning sentence, a middle sentence, and an ending sentence. It's not necessary for kids to write 5 paragraph essays this summer. Paragraphs are great.
Also, just a reminder that students entering 3rd grade should know their addition math facts fluently and accurately within 3 seconds. Students entering 4th grade should know their multiplication facts fluently and accurately within 3 seconds. Students entering 5th should also be fluent in multiplication facts. If your child is struggling with either concept moving into the next grade, it will be necessary to practice this summer.
Fluent in math means “fast and accurate.” It might also help to think of fluency as meaning the same thing as when we say that somebody is fluent in a foreign language: when you’re fluent, you flow. Fluent isn’t pausing, stumbling, or reversing oneself.
Summer Office Hours
Beginning Thursday, our summer hours are 7:30am to 3:00pm daily.
We will be closed on Memorial Day and the 4th of July.
We will be closed on Memorial Day and the 4th of July.
Back to School Events
Week of July 31st: Porch Pop-ins
August 1st and 2nd: KinderCamp and KinderCollege
August 9th: Meet the Teacher Night
August 16th: First Day of School
August 1st and 2nd: KinderCamp and KinderCollege
August 9th: Meet the Teacher Night
August 16th: First Day of School
This Week's Events
MONDAY
- K/1 Field Day
- Longbranch Pride Day--wear ANY Longbranch shirt today!
- Kindergarten Celebration of Learning at 6pm. Doors open at 5:30pm.
TUESDAY
- 2/3/4/5 Field Day
- Gray Day!! Wear gray for brain cancer awareness.
WEDNESDAY
- It's Throwback Day to the 60s! Peace out, man!! Dress the part.
- Wear your Our Future is Bright shirts for shirt signing during the day. Bring a Sharpie.
- Final hallway walk of the 5th graders is at 3:15pm. Fifth grade parents may attend.
- 5th Grade Promotion at 5:30pm.
Parent Leadership Info & Events
Updated: May 21st
Yearbook Photos
WE NEED YOUR PHOTOS! Please send your favorites from the year to longbranchyearbook@gmail.com. Any questions, contact the VP of Communications, Rachel Pearson, at communications.longbranchpta@gmail.com.
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Spirit Wear Sales
Next sale will be this spring.