Specials Edition
Week of February 28 ,2023
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Art to Remember
Multicultural Day
Art Night
Art
All grade levels are exploring painting techniques with watercolors.
Kinder will begin to create patterned landscapes using all 7 elements of art.
First and second grade will continue creating cityscapes using shapes and forms.
Third and Fourth grades will complete their Mosiac tiles
Fifth grade will complete their black paint and watercolor drawing.
Art to Remember fundraiser starting this week.
Hi families and friends,
Our school is participating in a creative fundraiser with Art to Remember that allows you to purchase keepsake products customized with your child's art. I will provide all the art to the fundraising company, however, If you have fallen in love with a piece of art from earlier in the year, or a new piece your artist created at home. You can select a piece of artwork from home and upload it by going to Prestwick's Art to Remember Webpage below and following these instructions:
Check out the fundraiser video tutorial if you need assistance.
1. Go to the website listed above and click the “Upload” button
2. Enter your child’s first and last name and click “Search”
3. From the list of search results, find your child’s name with “Fall 2022” listed under it and click “Upload”
4. Click “Choose a File” and select the piece of artwork you’d like to upload
5. Edit artwork if necessary. The artwork will appear exactly as uploaded so please make sure you have any background cropped out
6. Click “Next”
7. Enter additional details (optional) and click “Finish”
8. You’ll then have options to upload additional artwork for the same child, upload artwork for a different child, or view all of the artwork in your gallery. You can click on any of those options, or if you are ready to shop, click “Done”
9. This will take you to the shop page where you can shop for products
10. At checkout, you can enter a password to create an account and save the artwork to your personal family art gallery!
These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school. Have fun creating and shopping!
P.E.
Thank you everyone for supporting our Kids Heart Challenge fundraiser. We raised $20,288.54, 45 Students finished Finn’s Mission, and 208 students register for the event. I ordered all the Thank you gifts on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Worst case scenario we will deliver all the gifts to the classrooms the first week of April.
We are starting the Fitnessgram post-testing for 3rd-5th. For Kinder-2nd we will continue our jump rope activities.
Mr. Jillson
Guidance
In Guidance this week, the K-5 students were talking all about Good Choices and how to make them. We also talked about the good consequences of good choices, and the bad consequences of poor choices. The students and I filled out charts to describe people who are making good choices at home, in our school, and in our community. Next week, our students will be learning and talking about Persistence/Perseverance. Talk to your students about the life lessons that they are learning in Guidance. We got our new SALT vests for the 4th and 5th Graders on duty these 3 weeks, and they are very excited!
Your Proud Prestwick Counselor,
Mrs. Sandy Burrell
Library
This week is Read Across America, one of our nation's largest reading celebrations. We will celebrate with our Bluebonnet Breakfast for our phenomenal readers that have read five or more fantastic books from the Bluebonnet book list. The National Education Association offers books of the month that will help you keep your litter reader engaged, so checkout the list of amazing books for the month of March, this month's list is dedicated to finding a love for reading and a love of books.
Book of the Month March Link- https://www.worldcat.org/lists/49c3900f-50d6-4be4-a7c3-01ff8f909fee
Mrs. Bliss
Makerspace
Next week will be Learning.com week where the students will sharpen their typing skills while having fun at the same time. In addition, some students in 2-5 will be finishing up their green screen projects and getting them to their teachers to share with you. As always, students that finish early will have the opportunity to build and create using the maker’s materials in the classroom.
Mrs. Haley