Weekly Update, Sunday, February 21st, 2016

I think we may be entering our first full week of school in weeks!
  
REMINDERS:
1)  I need all signed report cards tomorrow with the envelope if your child hasn't already turned it in!
2) This is a Williamsburg Field Trip Payment Collection week!

SPIRIT WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!

Monday: Wear Pinebrook Colors or Gear

-Maroon, Navy, or any Pinebrook gear

Tuesday: Twin Day

-pick a friend and dress alike

Wednesday: Wacky Wear and Wacky Hair

-wear wacky clothes, hair or both

Thursday: Throw backwards

-Choose a decade or wear your clothes backwards

Friday: Dress like it’s Saturday

-wear your comfy clothes

This week in academia:

Virginia Studies: The New Nation unit test will be Wednesday, February 24th.  Students completed study guides last week in class, and they should use their notebooks and solpass.org to prepare.  The VA Studies Weekly is due Tuesday, February 23rd.  

Science: We've been incorporating our unit on electricity with our new One-to-the-World project, hopefully your child has filled you in!  Students are working in groups to create a small poster that will be hung around a light switch in a prominent Pinebrook location.  Student groups are responsible for Persuading, Informing, and Entertaining their specific audience.  Students will mainly be assessed on their group-work skills, oral communication skills, and ability to persuade, inform, and entertain through a written message.

Language Arts: Instead of Word Study this week, students will have science vocabulary words related to electricity.  There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday, February 26th.  There is NO Word Study this week.

Reading: Students are working in groups on their new research project relating to a Revolutionary War or New Nation topic.  As usual, students are expected to read for 20 minutes nightly and record their reading in their reading logs.  Information regarding the first Pinebrook Read-A-Thon will come home tomorrow!!!  

IMPORTANT DATES: 

Monday February 22nd - 26th: WILLIAMSBURG MONEY COLLECTION WINDOW!

February 29th: The Read-a-Thon begins!!!!  

March:

Tuesday, March 1st: AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE IS A TWO-HOUR DELAY due to the Virginia Presidential Primary Election

Thursday, March 3rd: Spring Photos

Monday, March 8th, 6:30 pm:  PTA Fine Arts and Cultures Night

Wednesday, March 9th:  3rd Quarter Interim Progress Reports Go Home

Monday, March 14th - 18th: LAST WILLIAMSBURG MONEY COLLECTION WINDOW!

Monday, March 14th, 6:30 pm:  PTA General Meeting in the Library at School

Monday, March 21st - Friday, March 25th:  Spring Break