Ms. Vanessa's Biweekly Class Update
for the weeks of 4/29 & 5/6
Updates
Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-May 10th
Monday, May 6th: send in one flower for your child to give to the teachers. It can be something as simple as a flower from your yard. We will have vases around the class to put them in to spread some cheer.
Wednesday, May 8th:
Potluck. We are good here. Christina has generously offered to supply plates, cups, napkins, etc. for the all-teacher potluck from our class. The theme is Italian if you want to add anything to the luncheon.
Poster: Tamara is making a poster with photos of all of our kids to hang at the luncheon. Be on the lookout for a request for quotes for the poster, or email back here. We are looking for a quote from your child about what they like the most about Ms. V. and Ms. R., one quote per teacher.
Photo book: Our class gift is a lovely photo book to both teachers of all of the kids and and artwork. This is covered out of our treasury funds (please give $ to Tamara if you haven't done so)
Friday, May 10th: bring in class supplies! Drop them off on Friday with a card from your child. Her wish list includes:
- skinny black expo dry erase markers--lots and lots
- a wall clock--the one she has doesn't keep time (respond to this email if you can do this so we can coordinate)
- a pencil sharpener--the one she has wore out
- wipes, baby and clorox
- a swiffer wet jet and refills
- lakeshore learning gift cards! Ms. V. buys a lot of curriculum items from here on her own dime. This is really her #1 wish list item. Any amount makes a difference. Order here and it ships for free: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/order/orderRegularGiftCard.jsp
- books on her Scholastic wish list: https://orders.scholastic.com/LZ38M
Ms. Vanessa is asking for five minutes of your time
Lunch help! Our class has lunch clean up the week of 5/13, every day.
The joy jar is almost full again!
Sight word testing
New golden time fun and tickets (aka fun friday)
New class pet...coming next week
We did it! We made our class goal...and then some!
Smart Moves--join the class every Friday
Mystery Readers: spots open on 5/2 & 5/23
Support the school, register for onecause.com
Scholastic Book Club Orders--Due May 15th
Events
Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-May 10
Parent Action Committee (PAC), May 7th at 6pm
No School Monday, May 13th & Monday, May 27th
The sliming of Principal Ramona, Friday, May 17th
Latino Heritage Day, Saturday, May 18th
CWCSL Silent Auction and Gala, Saturday, June 8th
Garage sale fundraiser, June 15th
Last day of school, Wednesday, June 19th
Who to Contact
Teachers
Our Room Parents
Under the leadership of Ms. Vanessa, our Room Parents are: Christina (Zosia), Laura (Roman), Susan (Colton) and Tamara (Jaffe).
Christina (czankowski@gmail.com) helps with: Organizing parent volunteers (i.e. drop off, tutors, clean up, lunches, and mystery reader) and organizing parents nights out and child play dates
Laura (casperlomeli@yahoo.com) helps with: Organizing parties for the classroom, translation of the newsletter and co-coordinating field trips
Susan (sdheine@gmail.com) helps with: Newsletter, organizing scholastic book orders, and maintaining class wishlist
Tamara (tcbick@gmail.com) helps with: Representing our class at Friday Parent Meetings, emailing notes from those meetings to room parents, coordinating Find and Remind, co-coordinating field trips and is our treasurer
Past Updates
4/1: https://www.smore.com/nfcq-ms-vanessa-s-biweekly-class-update?ref=my
3/10 & 3/17: https://www.smore.com/0kpd-ms-vanessa-s-biweekly-class-update?ref=my
2/24 & 3/3: https://www.smore.com/mgue-ms-vanessa-s-biweekly-class-update?ref=my
2/10 & 2/17: https://www.smore.com/x0zn-ms-vanessa-s-biweekly-class-update?ref=my
2/3: https://www.smore.com/tbd6-ms-vanessa-s-weekly-class-update?ref=my