March 24, 2011

Dear Parents,

Spring is an exciting time and the 5th and 6th graders have started an exciting new unit focused on those changes. Each small group has a main focus: soil temperature, robin activity, sprout activity, eagle sightings and garden activity. Tyler Brenton is pulling the class webpage together and each group will make a contribution.

Arianna has become a contributing editor to the Learning Garden blog and by next week the individual sites should be online. Check out these URLs:
http://penobscotgarden.blogspot.com/ http://site.penobscotschool.org/~student/Johns

Here is what is happening Friday:

The students should arrive at 4PM. We will have pizza and coleslaw for them at 6:30PM. We will have snacks out during the night and will put a light breakfast out at about 7:00 AM.
We will have plenty of herbed popcorn. Brenda Clark is baking some snacks. Laurie Norton is making a fruit salad.

This is what I need:

The pizza needs to be picked up at 6PM
More snacks and juice
Things for breakfast

March 18, 2011

Dear Parents,

The 5th and 6th grade class would like to do a fund raiser for the recent victims of the earthquake/tsunami. We have spent some time discussing ideas and this is what we have come up with.

The theme would be a 16 hour puzzle marathon and the date would be March 25th from 4:00PM until 8:00AM, March 26th. People would pledge $3 per completed puzzle with the possibility of capping their donation.

The students would like to have pizza and coleslaw for Friday night’s dinner and pancakes for Saturday’s breakfast. Are there parents who could help with snacks? Some of the healthy snacks we came up with are fruit salad and popcorn.

Chaperones will be me, Mrs. Kennedy and Cyndy Willis and any other parent who volunteers. All parents are welcome to attend any portion of the event.

We have made our first exploratory trips out to the greenhouse. The beds are still frozen but we were able to remove some stored items (fence and tomato cages). We harvested some parsnips and saw a mouse. The students felt sure it was Pi. The garden area is very wet. Will you send in a pair of extra sneakers and socks or even better, rubber boots so that we can all get out there? Thanks!!

Robotics is going well. We have met twice.