March 27-31

COURAGE

      Please devote at least 15 minutes during your specials block to teach MARCH'S character trait: COURAGE
Activities: "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway" . Write this quote on the board and have students in a group to write and illustrate the meaning.




Dont forget to submit the names of students that have shown Courage this month:   Click Here

Important Dates... check out more dates by clicking HERE

• http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/    Ask Stephanie if you need help!
• March 27- Third Grade AR 8:55; Fourth 2:05
• March 28- K/1 AR 8:55; Second Grade 10:40; Fifth/Sixth 2:05
• March 29- Staff Meeting- SPED Review
• March 31- Cesar Chavez Assembly- SPICE 
• 9:00– 9:10 opening, seating, etc (Luci or Rafael)
  9:10-9:20 kinders do something
  9:20-9:30– 1st graders
  9:30-9:40– 2nd graders
  9:40-9:50– 3rd graders
  9:50-9:55– whole audience will sing together– Las manañitas
• April 3 & 4- Mobile Dairy Classroom
• April 4- SPICE Info Night 6p
• April 5- Calendar Meeting & Staff Meeting:  SBAC
• April 6- Elementary Reclassification Ceremony- WCW Theatre 7pm
• April 7- Gorgeous Gal
• April 8- Super Science Saturday 8-12

Happening Things:  
Girls On the Run- T/Th 3-4:30
Markham Choir- Second Grade Hallway on Wednesdays before school
Exploring Biotechnology- Grades 3/4 Room 6 on Wednesdays for 5 weeks
Ballet Folklorico- Thursdays After school
Parent Institute Quality Education (PIQE)- Thursdays from 6-7 in MPR
2017-2018 Registration has begun
Kinder Pre-Assessments- 3/20 and 3/23
6th grade Parent Meeting at Jepson 3/16
Parent Meeting for Spanish Speaking Parents 3/21
Art Smart- Tuesdays After school

• African Drumming- rm 16
• Clay- rm 15
• Theatre/Movement- MPR

The SPICE parent Board and PTO have decided to change the 5 de Mayo evening to a Multicultural Evening this year. The idea is to feature countries from around the world. We will get more information later, but I wanted to give you a head’s up early on.

        Briefly, teachers will be able to pick a country for their class to represent in the evening of May 5th. SPICE Board has Mexico and SPICE classes will have 1st bids on Latin American countries. REACCH can chose a country from anywhere around the world. That’s the basic idea for the evening, in a nutshell. Next Meeting is April 5th at 5:00.

Timberwolf Tips...

For our primary teachers - the following link shares fun activities that will build students' number sense :)

http://proudtobeprimary.com/building-number-sense-to-20/

Markham Shout Outs....

• Shannon Pike: Shannon is always friendly and helpful.
• Ruby Esparza,Norma Guerrero, Jenny Rae, Lucy del rio, Rafael Soler, Stepahnie Sanders, Nakaren Hamid:  I want to thank all of these people for giving support and sending out good vibes to help me pass the Spanish CSET, thank you guys so much
• Jessica: Thanks for keeping us caffeinated. :)
• Cindy (yard duty): Thanks for going out of your way to help the kids and always writing reports!
• Yard duties: Thanks for making it a point to say hello to our shy students who need to be noticed and seen.
• Laura Vanhoy and Natalie Sylvester: They put together a great GLAD unit on elephants for the first grade team to help with our descriptive writing. You both ROCK!!!!!

Let out a happy "howl" here -  Markham's Staff is HOWLing....