May 25, 2010
Dear Fourth Grade Parents:
Before we know it, the school year will be over and the dog days of summer will be upon us. Until then, we are still working hard in the Fourth Grade to finish up our work and close out our year of learning together.
Here is some important information about our last weeks of school. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Tomorrow it is supposed to be very hot. Linda and I would like to take the 4th and 3rd grades to the culvert to wade. Please send along a towel, appropriate shoes for climbing down the small hill, a swimsuit or clothes that can get wet, and dry clothes. Thank you.
Thursday, June 3, at 12:50 p.m., the Fourth Grade will perform, The Sneetches, an adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s classic tale. The students adapted this to be a “Shakespearean” style play. They have been working hard on this. It should be lots of fun and also impart a valuable lesson to our audience. I hope you can all make it.
Friday, June 4, is our end-of-year trip to the Path of Life Garden. Thank you Carolyn for suggesting this trip, and thanks to Jaja’s suggestion, we have added a CT River float to the trip. We will leave TGS at 9:00 a.m., arriving at the Path of Life/Great River Outfitters by 10:00. We will be outfitted with life vests and gear and taken north to Sumner Falls where we will put into the River in rafts and have a 2-hour guided tour back down to the Path of Life. We will disembark, have a picnic lunch, and tour the garden. We will leave at about 2:00 to be back in time for buses at 3:00. It should be a fun day. Please be sure your child is wearing clothing they don’t mind getting wet (swimsuits with shorts and t-shirts are fine), good water shoes, sun screen, bug repellant (if you desire), a good snack, a picnic lunch, and plenty of water. I have the following folks who have volunteered to drive/chaperone: Sara Kagle, Carolyn DeMark, Barb Silbey, and Jaja Laughlin. William Chambers may join us. Any others of you are, of course, welcome to come, but I unfortunately do not have the budget to pay for more than this number.
The Spring Concert is this Thursday, May 27, at 6:30 p.m. Students should arrive and meet in our classroom at 6:15. Please be sure you child has his/her recorder. Please remind your student that they need to wear clothing that does not have writing, logos, or advertisements.
Next Monday, May 31, is Memorial Day and there is no school. Finally, Thursday, June 10, is the last day of school and a half-day, ending at noon. Field Day takes place that morning and the traditional end-of-school slide show. I will try to have students bring work home throughout that week so as to avoid an overload on the last day.
Thanks for all of your wonderful children. It has been such a pleasure to work with them and you this year.
All best,
Libby
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