Our week in Trillium started off with beautiful warm weather, which means lots of time outside! It was wonderful to get to move some of our planned indoor projects out to the courtyard and garden. We were able to help Mrs. Quinlan with some garden work, including shoveling bark chips, weeding, cutting and bundling sage, and watering the lavender around the labyrinth. It is wonderful to see how willing the students are to get in and help, and how hard they work!
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Dear families, Thank you all for coming out to the student led conferences last week. It was a joy to watch the students share their work with you. We hope that you enjoyed the conference format and were able to see what your child has been working on throughout the year. We will continue to add to the portfolios until the end of the year and then the students will be able to take them home. Track club started yesterday! Hopefully you read the blurb about track club in last week’s parent memo. We would love to have you come out to join us and walk or run. Here is the note from Mrs. Reeber from the memo with the details: Track Club MRA Track Club starts Tuesday, April 12th. Danielle Reeber, our PE teacher, runs track club at MRA every spring as a way to promote health and wellness at our school. Students, parents, teachers, friends run or walk laps during our lunch recess time. Participants earn a ticket for each lap. Tickets are tallied daily and at the end of May students earn certificates, the class with the most laps gets a play day, and the whole school celebrates how far we’ve run. Our goal this year is to get as far across the Atlantic Ocean as possible. Parents/Guests can run for classes within the 20 minute time frame allotted each class. If you run the full 40 minutes you can put 20 minutes of tickets to one class and 20 minutes to another, but you cannot put all 40 minutes to the same class. Hopefully many of you are planning on coming out for the auction on Saturday! It is going to be a great event. Not only is it an important fundraiser, but it is also an opportunity to spend with the MRA community. Some have asked if it is worth it to attend if you won’t be able to spend much, and the answer is yes! Even just purchasing a dinner ticket is a helpful contribution. You will also get the chance to bid on the Trillium art project! Every student worked to create are beautiful hen. On the back is a class photo and signatures of all the Trillium students. And don’t forget to get a spot for your child for the Trillium sleepover! Purchase your tickets here: https://molallariveracademy.schoolauction.net/2016auction/tickets/ticket_sales Have a wonderful rest of your week, and hopefully we will see many of you on Saturday evening! Dear families, What an exciting week we have had in Trillium! We returned from spring break to the final countdown of our incubated chicken eggs. In preparation for our chicks, we talked about what our chicks will need once they hatch. Will they need a nest? A box? Gravel? What kind of food will they eat and how will they stay warm? After much discussion, we decided we need a large box, preferably with wood chips, a heat lamp for warmth, fresh water and food for baby chicks. On Wednesday we had our first pip, which is the first break in the egg shell that a chick makes when hatching. It also allows the chick to start breathing. After the first pip, it can take the chicks up to 24 hours to finally break out of the shell. By Thursday morning we had our brooder set up and ready for our babies, and we were greeted in the morning by a fluffy chick. The children were so excited to greet the new baby and began taking their roles are chick parents very seriously. We have since welcomed a total of 9 chicks, with more pipped eggs in the process of hatching. It will be very exciting to see how many we are up to on Monday morning. In addition to our baby chicks, we packed a lot of learning into our 4 days of school. We continued to work on our letter sounds and handwriting practice. We’ve discovered we have a class full of authors and illustrators in Trillium, and beautiful books are being created. We’ve had picture books, informational books, and books about our new chicks, dinosaurs, flowers, etc. The students have loved working on these books and are eager to share their work with the class. They have also started categorizing their books by the number system we use in class. It has been very exciting to see our class library grow with their work. In story workshop, we’ve been learning about nests and eggs. Students were able to create nests out of clay, paint nests on our easels, sketch nests that we have in our classroom, build nests out of our blocks and we’ve started creating a large nest outside. We also spent some time walking around campus looking for nests. We found spider nests, bird nests, and a few mystery nests. It has led to great questions about nests and eggs that we are looking forward to finding the answers to. Do all animals that make nests lay eggs? Do all animals come from eggs? Do squirrels lay eggs? We will update you with our findings! On Friday, April 1st, Mr. Luke and I enjoyed playing a little prank on our classes. Our students arrived on Friday to find that their chairs had been switched! You can find pictures in our latest album. The poor Cedars don't fit in our little chairs very well! Student led conferences are coming up this Thursday and Friday, and we will be spending this week preparing our portfolios. Student led conferences are a favorite of mine, because we get to hear from the students what they have learned, what they have enjoyed, what their goals are and what they want to improve on. Sign-up sheets for conference times are outside the front office. Let us know if you have any questions. The auction is also coming up fast, with less than two weeks to go! Our class basket is looking great. It isn’t too late to bring in any last minute additions to our pet basket. And don’t forget to purchase your auction tickets! There are so great items available, including the Trillium art project. Lori and I are also offering a student sleepover at school as our teacher time! We will have limited spots so make sure to get yours while they are available. The Trillium sleepover was a hit last year and we are looking forward to making it even better this year. Enjoy the beautiful sunshine and have a wonderful week! ~Shannon |
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