Week of May 30 - June 3
Recorder Return
If your child borrowed a recorder this year, please make sure it is returned to Ms. Mac or Mrs. Richards this week.
Summer Activities
If you are interested in receiving some academic activities from 4th grade teachers to prevent summer slide, please fill out the form located here. This would be in addition to the Brown School Learning Challenge that will be handed out at the end of the year. This is optional.
Library Books
If your child received a yellow slip indicating a missing library book, please work on locating and returning it. Mrs. Berry, our media specialist, is busy working to inventory all books.
Field Trip - Kalamazoo Valley Museum
On Tuesday June 7, we will travel to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum to visit the Rube Goldberg exhibit and planetarium. Students will need to bring a mask (the KVM is requiring all visitors to wear a mask while in the museum) and a sack lunch to school.
*If your child is planning to receive a sack lunch from the school instead of bringing his/her own from home, please fill out the form located here.
Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize cartoonist and inventor, is best remembered for his zany contraptions, known as Rube Goldberg Machines. These inventions perform a simple task in the most overcomplicated, inefficient and hilarious way possible. This exhibit brings Rube's cartoons and zany contraptions to life through 3D, life-size machines and hands-on, interactive components. It invites visitors to investigate classic engineering principles in a humorous way.
Swimming
Unfortunately, the pool at the high school is unavailable for our last scheduled swim date. Therefore, we will not be swimming any more this year.
School Store
The Student Council would like to offer one last School Store opportunity this school year. Brown's School Store will be open for business Thursday 6/2. Students may bring in money ($2 limit, please) to shop for fun school supplies, like cool pencils, erasers, highlighters, sharpeners, and more. This event is organized and run by Brown School Student Council members. Happy shopping!
Water Bottles and Snacks
This is a friendly reminder that students should come to school with a full water bottle each day; while students can fill their water bottles at the bottle fillers, the water fountain remains off.
Students are also encouraged to bring 2 healthy snacks each day, one for morning recess and one for afternoon recess. I am running low on classroom provided snacks and will likely not have any left for the last week and a half of school.
Homework Reminder
Homework each night consists of reading 20+ minutes at home (this can be a library book, magazine, newspaper, online book, etc) and practicing multiplication and division facts 1 through 12. Mastering multiplication and division facts is vital to our learning this year. Students can also work on Lexia Core 5 and on IXL (NWEA Skills).
Mrs. Bawks' Brown School Family Blog:
Please don't forget to take a peek at Mrs. Bawks' Brown School Family Blog each week. CLICK HERE to read it.
What we are learning this week:
ELA/Writing: We will finish our work on poetry. We will analyze poems by looking at structure and figurative language.
Important Upcoming Dates:
Mon. 5/30- No School (Memorial Day)
Tues. 5/31 - Health Lesson
Wed. 6/1 - Late Start (school begins at 9:20 am)
Fri. 6/3 - Popcorn Friday
Tues. 6/7- Field Trip to Kalamazoo Valley Museum
Wed. 6/8-Field Trip to Sarett (a.m.), School Picnic (p.m.), make-up art day and summer book packs going home today
Thurs. 6/9 - ½ day (Dismissal at 12:09pm)
Friday 6/10-Last day of school ½ day (Dismissal at 12:09pm)
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