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Hello Thunderbird Nation!

Have a great week!

Have an extraordinary week!

Have your best week yet!

Pat Harnett

Principal

Important dates for the remainder of the year can be found at the bottom of this newsletter in the "Year At a Glance" section.

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Please see the note above from Principal Harnett for important notices.

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Please see the information below to learn about what is coming up:

Field Trip #3:

Who: LTUSD First Grade
What: Books, Books, and More Books/ How Books are Made
Where: Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC)
When: Friday, May 30th
*More information will be provided as the field trip gets closer.

No School = May 26th/Memorial Day

Bada Bing, It's Spring: 1st Grade Performance

As of last week, our classes have officially begun practicing their lines for our spring performance of Bada Bing, It's Spring. If your child has any lines in the play, please take some time each night to practice these with them :) This performance is scheduled to happen on Tuesday, May 27th from 1:30-2:15 in Tahoe Valley's multipurpose room. We hope to see you then!

Project Reminder: Please check with your teacher for more details on due dates/directions/etc. https://supersimple.com/article/underwater-diorama-craft/ One helpful sorce, if your child's class is completing a diorama.

OPEN HOUSE: June 5th, 5:30-7

*More information on Field Day, Dance Fest, Family Picnic, Last Day of School will be sent once more information is received :) As always, if you have questions, please email your teacher.

Have a great weekend,
Tahoe Valley First Grade Team

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Coming Events:

May 27th: Tallac Historical Site Field Trip

June 2nd: Sugar Pine Point State Park Field Trip

This week in fourth grade we continued with state testing in Math. We have all been working very hard. In honor of our end of school ABC countdown we all played a Spees v. Murphy game of kickball. Please remember if you have not already, to turn in the Sutter's Fort permission slip. Enjoy the long weekend and please remember we have no school on Monday for Memorial Day.

Upcoming Events-

5/26 - No School Memorial Day

5/27 - Field Trip to Tallac Historic Site

6/12-6/13 - Sutter's Fort Overnight Field Trip

Mrs. Spees & Ms. Murphy

Important dates:

No School, Memorial Day - 5/26

Eagle Falls Hike 5th grade Field Trip - Thursday, 5/29

Open House - 6/5

Wild Island 5th Grade Field Trip - 6/10

Field Day - 6/16

Dance Fest, Family Picnic- 6/17

5th Grade Promotion - 6/18

Last day of School - 6/18

What a great week for learning!

Language Arts: We have been learning our long vowel sounds. We sorted the sounds and played games with the sounds. The students have been reading short vowel words and long vowel words. For next week, we will continue to focus on blending sounds together to read cvc words and words with silent e as well as introduce words vowel pairs such as double ee and ow.

Math: The students are learning how to tell time by the hour. We made our own clocks and are learning how to identify the big hand and little hand. In first grade we are learning how to add to digit numbers without regrouping and having fun with our Math!!!

With our filed grade buddies, we cleaned up the yard. The students wore

gloves and went on a trash hunt to clean up garbage around the school.

This week, we celebrated to wonderful birthdays!!! On the same day!!! We had a great party.

Thank you to our parents for sharing food and goodie bags with us. We would also like to thank our parents for providing snack foods for our classroom! You are amazing!!!

🎵Composer of the Month: Johann Sebastian Bach Music Words of the Week-Measure and Bar Line Instrument of the Week-Harpsichord

• 🔴TK Classes practiced keeping a steady beat, reading iconic and stick rhythms and started writing stick notation! We also continued our drumming unit!
• 🟠Kinder classes practiced keeping a steady beat, reading iconic rhythms and started reading stick notation! They also continued working on the songs for their upcoming musical "EIEI Oops!" 🐑🦆🐖🐥🐄 👩🏻‍🌾🚜 Stay tuned for dates and times! 🎭
• 🟡1st Grade classes continued working on the songs from their upcoming musical "Bada Bing! It's Spring!" 💐🌷🍃🌸🌱 Stay tuned for dates and times! 🎭
• 🟢2nd Grade classes will be starting their Handbell unit soon! 🔔
• 🔵 3rd Grade classes continued their recorder unit today! They continued playing the note B!
• 🟣4th Grade Classes continued their ukulele unit! We continued chords this week - C7 and C!
• 🌈5th Grade Classes started working more on music theory - being able to read and write music.

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Please note that these dates are subject to change as the year progresses.

No School, Memorial Day - 5/26

Minimum Day (12:05 dismissal), Open House - 6/5

Field Day - 6/16

Dance Fest, Family Picnic- 6/17

5th Grade Promotion - 6/18

Last day of School - 6/18