Pink!

We are looking to get items for our pink basket. I have only 1 item so far... Please donate any item (including a basket) if you can. The dollar store has great selection of items as well. Thanks!

2010 Doggie Dash

On Saturday May 15th, Ms. Raethke and her lovely dog Lucy are signed up for the Doggie Dash which supports the Oregon Humane Society. If you as a family would like to walk with us (with a dog or not), you can join our doggie dash team.

Sign Up Here: http://ohs.convio.net/site/TR/Events/TeamRaiser?team_id=6630&pg=team&fr_id=1070


If you have any questions, please contact Ms. R via email @ raethkej@molallariv.k12.or.us

Conferences Next Week!

Thank you for helping make sure your child brought back their conference confirmation slip. I look forward to seeing you on Monday and Tuesday. If for some reason something comes up, please be sure and call the school to let us know. I appreciate your participation in your child's Education! Thank you!

Testing

This week we will be participating in the State Writing Test! Be sure your kid's get a lot of sleep so they can do their best!

No School on Monday!

This Monday students will have a day off due to a teacher in-service. See everyone on Tuesday!

PTC Meeting Today!

Today we have a Parent Club meeting! It will start at approximately 3:45! Parents are a vital part of what we do here at MES so your attendance is appreciated! Hope to see you there.

2nd Week Back

We have had a really positive re-adjustment back to our school routine. Please make sure to talk with your child about bringing their homework back on Friday. I have suggested to a few kids to make sure and have a "homework spot". Often times students have their work completed but just forget it at home. Having a specific place where students ALWAYS have their homework can really help them be more responsible.

Here are a few things we have been working on:

Math: We are currently finishing up a unit on finding averages including mean, median and mode.

Read-Aloud- We are reading the Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 2, The Reptile Room.

Reading Group- Ask your child what they are currently working on in group. In my group we are working on summarizing, spelling/vocab and we just finished reading "The 4th Grade Rats". We will start a new book this week.

Writing- We have worked on quite a few conecpts already this year including a fun way to edit our papers. We will start our focus on "Our Writing Ideas" so we can have great ideas that make sense in our papers. We will do the state testing in Writing in February.

Math Facts- Students are either working on Math Facts (Division and Multiplication) or Accelerated Math. Once students finish Math facts, the immediately go to Accelerated Math where they can work at their own pace and focus on various Math Skills.

Enrichment Time- During Enrichment students go about various areas of MES working on Reading and Math skills especially. In my Enrichment group, we have been writing and creating a skit that we will perform via podcast. Look for it here in a few weeks!

Social Studies- We will begin our next unit this week as well. We finished up learning about reading maps and features of a map.

If you have any questions please feel free to email Ms. Raethke @ raethkej@molallariv.k12.or.us