Happy February!

Enrichment Day was another huge success thanks to the efforts of our PTA and the many volunteers that came out on Saturday morning to work with our students. Thank you to Bernadette Irving and Carrie Grooms, co-coordinators of the event, for making sure everything ran smoothly. Pictured below are just some of the activities that took place on Saturday.

Have Fun with Painting 

Kids in the Kitchen

Karate

Scrapbooking

Lego Robotics

Exploring our Underwater World

Small Project Woodworking

Cake Decorating

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

Stained Glass

As I mentioned in last week's blog, our Shared Decision Making Committee designed a multiple choice survey for parents. Thank you to those of you who have already taken this survey. For those of you who have not, we value your input. Please click on this link to access the survey.

This Tuesday students will come home with information about our 2nd annual Education Fair which will be held on March 15, 2016. Students can complete a reading project or a science experiment. They can work solo, with their siblings, or with a friend or two. Please save the date!

We are really looking forward to East Hill's Vocabulary Parade this Wednesday at 10:00. If your child is participating in the parade, please feel free to join us! It should be fun to learn more about words, such as despicable, discombobulated, flabbergasted, hypochondriac, portcullis, and many, many more!

This week's words of the day are equivalent (M), ancient (T), adverb (W), offense (Th), and honest (F).

Upcoming Dates:

• The next PTA meeting will be held February 9th.
• Winter break runs from Monday, February 15th through Friday, February 19th.
• The NYS English/Language Arts assessments for grades 3-5 will be April 5th - 7th and the Mathematics assessments, also for grades 3-5, will be held April 13th - 15th. Please try to avoid scheduling appointments on these days if at all possible. There have been some changes to the testing, including a different vendor, greater involvement of teachers in the test development process, fewer numbers of passages and test questions, and a shift to untimed testing.

If you are on twitter, you can follow me @lisadcraig. Have a great week!

- Lisa