Dear Room 20 & 21 Parents,
Welcome back from a much-needed winter break. As we enter the month of March, and the first month of spring, we'll definitely be "coming in like a lion!" Each student should review their goals in preparation for our upcoming conferences in the middle of this month. How are you doing? Have you achieved your goals, or is there still something you need to make progress on to have a successful year? As a parent, what growth have you seen in your student? What do you feel is a continued focus area for your child? Your teachers look forward to the chance to speak with students and parents about the work we're doing here at school, and we enjoy the shared responsibility of working toward academic and personal achievements for each our our students. Until then, let's all take a look at our performance so far, and let's plan for a terrific finish to our 2010-2011 school year!
Our blogsite addresses are:
Room 20 (Scourkes) http://rockhopperroom20.blogspot.com
Room 21 (Roels) http://gtfroom22.blogspot.com
It’s Survey Time!! We would like to invite you to take part in our annual School Survey. Your feedback on the survey is critical to the school as the survey results are used by the School Site Council to create our school goals. The survey will be “live” until Monday, March 11, 2010. After the survey, we’re having a raffle for a group of kids to have lunch with Mrs. Ales! Fun!
To complete the survey, follow these steps -- Go to the school website, www.portalpenguins.org, and:
1) Click on the link to the survey.
2) Complete one survey for each child attending Murdock-Portal.
3) After you have completed the survey, print the last page of the survey – fill in your child’s name and room number and return this slip to the classroom teacher to enter in to our raffle!
Thank you for your participation in making our school a wonderful place! Again, your feedback for the survey is so important and we value your input.
Note: If you tried to take the survey during the break and had some technical problems, we believe that they are all sorted out, so you may log on and take the survey now.
San Juan Bautista Field Trip
Our trip to Mission San Juan Batista is this Thursday, March 3, 2011. We leave for our trip at 8:30am, and we will return by 2:50pm. All students and chaperones will bring a disposable paper bag lunch on that date. We will spend a portion of our time outside, so please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather before arriving at school.
Interested in helping out?
Yes, it is now less than SIX weeks until Rooms 20 and 21 will perform the incredible play entitled "Geology Rocks!" If you've ever wondered if learning about rocks, minerals, fossil fuels, geologic time, and tectonic plates could be funny, then you won't want to miss our upcoming fine arts performance on Thursday, April 7th at 6:30pm in our multipurpose room at Portal. We are looking for interested parents to help support us with stage design, costumes, day of the event preparations, and treats for the evening. If you would be interested in ANY of these volunteer opportunities related to our play, please send us a quick e-mail reply. We will plan on meeting with those interested parents sometime next week.
In this Thursday's folder you will find the parent/teacher conference appointment schedule. If you would please sign and return your confirmation as soon as possible, it would be helpful. We have worked hard to fit all of the conferences in within a reasonable time, and with 30-31 students each, there are not many slots left open throughout the conference period, so it is difficult to reschedule. We understand if you cannot make the assigned time due to a prior commitment, but it would help us tremendously if you were able to conference with us on the assigned date and time. Thank you in advance!
Calendar of Events:
Mon. 2/28 5th Grade Fitness Testing
California Trivia Clue (student responses are REQUIRED):
What are the five cities that served as temporary capitals of CA between 1850 & 1854?
Mr. Roels and Miss Scourkes
Rooms 20 & 21
Rockhopper Village
Portal School
