October 18, 2015

Parent Conferences

Thank you to the parents who met with us this week.  We enjoyed meeting with you to discuss your child's successes and make plans to assist your child where they need to grow.   For those scheduled to come this week, we look forward to meeting with you.  Please remember that you conference is scheduled with your child's language arts teacher.   As always, your partnership makes for a more successful year for your child. 

The Big Switch

This week, we will again have "The Big Switch".  This means that if your child had Science class for the past several weeks, they will now have Social Studies for the first portion of the 2nd quarter.  Likewise, if they previously had Social Studies, they now have Science class.  Mrs. Scruby teaches Science and Mrs. Westley is the Social Studies teacher.  

Special Events this Week

We have several special things scheduled this week.  

Monday: 

• Author Visit! We are excited author J. Scott Savage will be visiting SLE.  The theme of the assembly is The Power of Creativity. Mr. Savage will talk  about kids who made the world a better place by using their imaginations. He also will teach the students how to come up with an amazing story idea in less than five minutes using a hero, a goal, obstacles, and consequences of success and failure.

Friday: 

• Vehicle Day: Students will be able to tour many different modes of transportation that Mrs. Burdine has lined up for this annual SLE event.
• 1st Quarter Behavior Award: This Friday we will celebrate those students who met the 1st Quarter Positive Behavior Goal which for 4th grade focused on homework completion.  For those students who missed no more than 2 Freaky Friday Fun Times, they will attend a special movie event on Friday to celebrate their achievement.  

Mark Your Calendar

Please make note of the upcoming events:

• October 30 - Fall Class Parties
• November 3 - Election Day: No School for Students
• November 5 - Picture Retake Day

October Week One

Picture Retakes

Picture retakes will be Thursday, November 5th.  If You would like your child's picture retaken, please return the original picture package to the photographers on retake day.  

Walk A Thon

Thank you to all gave their time and donations.  We had a beautiful day to walk and raised some great money for SLE PTO.

IOWA Test

4th graders will be taking the IOWA Test this week.   In Kings, we use this test as a screener for gifted identification.  Testing will happen for a short time each day during your child's reading block and do not anticipate this causing a major disruption to instruction.

Book Fair

Students will visit the book fair during their regularly scheduled library times during this week.  We will have a family night on Wednesday, October 7 at 6pm.  Remember your child goes to library with their reading teacher.  Again this year, you will have the opportunity to shop our Book Fair online beginning Wednesday, Sept. 30.  To access the order site, click HERE.

Parent Conferences

The end of the 1st quarter is rapidly approaching and it is time for parent/teacher conferences.   Please look for more information about scheduling a time with your child's reading teacher.  Conferences are scheduled for Thursday, October 15  and Thursday, October 22 from 4-7:30 pm.