Barrett Crew
Friday, February 12, 2016
Dear UMAC Parents,
We had such a wonderful week celebrating our 100th day of school on Tuesday and Valentine’s Day today! It is so much fun to take a small step back from learning and have a little fun with our students!! A special thank you to Mrs. Howard for organizing our Valentine’s Party today and our volunteers Mrs. Jurrens and Mrs.Kirkpatrick for to helping. Also, the donations for our party were greatly appreciated.
Let’s hope the “Honk Flu” is behind us all and we’re healthy the rest of the school year! If anyone has any extra Clorox wipes, we would greatly appreciate them. We are working hard at keeping everything here extra clean:)
Happy Valentine's Day!
Michelle Barrett
100 Days Smarter!!
Shared Reading
This week in shared reading we read one of our favorite historical texts, Henry’s Freedom Box. This is a true story of Henry Brown and how he escaped on the Underground Railroad. Students did a fantastic job using their knowledge learned in social studies to make deeper connections with this story. Our focus skill this week was character analysis. As we analyzed Henry’s thoughts and actions throughout the story we some very insightful inferences about Henry and this time period.
Time for a field trip!
Our UMAC team has been invited to see the Disney's The Little Mermaid at Crystal Lake Central High School. Being such experts at performing, we're excited to watch this musical. We will be leaving promptly at 9:00 am on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 and return to school by 12:00 pm. The cost of this show is $3.00 per student. We will be sending the permission slip home next week.
Upcoming events:
Monday, Feb. 15: President’s Day No School
Saturday, Feb. 20: Winter Carnival 10-2:00 pm
Wednesday, Feb. 24: Early release 2:00 pm dismissalThursday, Feb. 25: Culver's Night 5-7 pm