Week in Review Wednesday, March 2nd

                                     READ ACROSS AMERICA        
                              "You are never too old, too wacky, too wild,
                        To pick up a book and read to a child."
                                   ~Dr. Seuss a.k.a.Theodor Seuss Geisel~
                                                               4-9-1904~~9-24-1991

               Happy 107th Birthday to Dr. Seuss!
        In honor of this famed America, Seabury celebrated our annual Crazy Hat Day. You'll find some great photos of our Beacons in their craziest hats ! We have also worked hard in class in all subjects; but today we spent extra time during silent reading to do just that...read, read, read!We also participated in the Read Across America Jeopardy Game! So be sure to view all the photos at the bottom of this blog entry.

                           UPCOMING EVENTS:

~This Friday, March 4th~

 Special Gathering

Life After Seabury!

   9:00~10:00 am

 You don't want to miss this!

                              ~March 10 and March 11~
                                      No School                
                                            Parent-Teacher Conferences

                                       ~March 17th~
                                         Science Fair
                         During the day presentation times t.b.a.
                           Evening viewing 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.


                                                          ~March 18~                                                                 
                          Beacons' Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 a.m.

                                    ~March 25th~
                           Living History Museum Day:
                A Day in the Life of a Colonial American Kid
                                       1:30-2:45p.m.


                                                     ~March 26~

                                          Our Seabury Auction!
                           See you there!

       ~Saturday, April 2th-Sunday, April 10th ~
                           Spring Break!

                      Here's What's Been Going On
                      In the Beacons' World:
Writers' Workshop continues with our action stories for the hard backed books. Many of the students have finished writing their stories and are peer conferencing, editing, or teacher conferencing. We will be publishing these books on the computer in the next few weeks and will have a publisher's picnic once we get them finished.
Reading: Students are busily working on their respective reading books. They are all improving on their higher level thinking skills of writing summaries of their chapters.
Math: Students in both the Math Magicians and Math Magicals are wrapping up their chapters and will have a test on their chapters next week.
Science:
      The Beacons are on their way to completing the Science Fair projects. All Science Fair projects are due on Monday, March 7th. Please help your Beacon remember to bring it in on time!

Social Studies: Students have selected their Colonial "persona" and are researching their respective crafts. It will be an exciting presentation on March 25th in the afternoon 1:30-2:50. We hope to see you there. More information will be going home in this week's Friday Folder.
          Here are our Crazy Hat day photos as we celebrate 
                 Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day!

                                            

                    Our 4 Beacons' team members preparing for
                                              the big competition

                       Hmmmmm, what is the correct answer?

We WON!!! 1st Prize 

February 23rd Week in Review

                                    
                            ~March 2nd~

  Read Across America and Crazy Hat Day

~March 10 and March 11~

No School

Parent-Teacher Conferences

~March 18~

           Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 a.m.

~March 26~

     Our Seabury Auction!

     Wow, has this ever been another wild weather week with no school on Monday due to President's Day, a very snowy Wednesday afternoon where many students left early, a no school  snow day on Thursday and then a 2 hour late start day due to icy conditions on Friday. You just don't know what kind of day it will be until you get up in the morning! It's a wonder that we're able to keep it all straight!       

     We love teaching your wonderful Beacons! Unfortunately, mother nature's snowy and icy blast this week (and a federal holiday) prevented us from having another full week of school. Having said that, we worked very hard in the hours that we were at school!

     One of the highlights of this short week was going into Mrs. Head's room where we saw the Explorers dissecting lambs' hearts! Two of our Beacon parents are noted surgeons and they have a child in Mrs. Head's class as well. They facilitated the dissection and really helped make our science unit of learning about the human body come alive. One of the coolest things about this dissection is that the lamb's heart is approximately the same size as that of an elementary school child's heart. This led to a great discussion once we returned to the classroom! As many of your Beacons said, "Seabury is sooooooooooooo cool! We get to dissect in schooooooooooooool!"

           Enjoy your budding surgeon's "heart felt" photos below: