The spring busy season is upon us.  This time last year, we were packing and preparing for the move to our new building, and I felt that we could never be busier.  I was wrong.  This group of students is so motivated and driven, that they have taken on several projects, and are succeeding at all of them.

The Gala experience was a great success.  Thank you to everyone who contributed to the party.  The kindergarteners had a good time, and the fifth graders were exceptional!

Despite competing with sixth grade in the LAD Fair writing competition, several members of the class earned ribbons.  Three members of our Destination Imagination team will be competing in state championships this weekend, while two of our team members are away competing in a dance competition.  Eight of our class members qualified for regional math competition, with Grayson progressing on to state competition in a couple of weeks. The Sons of the American Revolution will be here soon to hand out awards for their poster contest, including a special award to Sydney, who won the state level competition with her poster on Nathanael Greene.  Evelyn took second place at the Springfield Bar Association Law Day contest with her very creative poster on “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Country.”  It is a joy to watch them strive and succeed!

This week, we have been taking  the ERB, and will  finish testing today.  Many of our superheroes are finished, and are ready to take on the challenges that will be thrown at them next week. This is always a fun activity, and I suspect that their solutions to the challenges will be both creative and humorous.  Also next week, we will begin work on our display boards for Science Fair.  If you have any questions, or wish for me to print out any photographs that were taken during the experiments, please be sure to contact me.

Dates to remember are:

May 1 – Book Club

May 2 – Third Trimester Celebration

May 7 – Grandparents Day and the Spring Concert