UK Day!

In celebration of the Kentucky Wildcats in the final four, we will have a UK day on Friday! Your child can wear all blue and white in support of the Cats. They may also wear UK hats if they would like. Go UK!

Spring Break!

Spring break is almost here! There will be no school April 4-8. Also, there will not be homework sent home over spring break. Enjoy this time with your family!!!

Cookie Dough Pick-Up

Cookie dough will ready for pick-up on Tuesday March 29, from 3:00 - 6:00 and Wednesday March 30th from 8:00-6:00. Remember to pick it up because it needs to be refrigerated. Thanks for supporting JELV!!

Spring Pictures

The group classroom pictures that were pre-ordered have not arrived yet, but they should be here next week. On Tuesday we sent home a picture packet of individual pictures. You have several options with the picture packet.

1. If you DO NOT want any of the pictures, please return the ENTIRE packet as soon as possible.
2. You may purchase the entire picture packet for $55.00. Please use the small envelope enclosed in the packet to send in your payment.
3. You may purchase some of the picture sheets and not all. There is a chart in the picture packet with prices listed. You may keep the ones that you pay for, but return all the rest.

Please remember, the pictures are not free. If you do not purchase the pictures, please return the entire packet quickly. We would like them all in by spring break (next Friday, April 1).

St. Patrick's Day - Green Food Celebration!

St. Patrick’s Day is Thursday, March 17. To celebrate the holiday we ask everyone to wear something green. We will also be having a “green food celebration.” If you would like to send anything in for the students to eat that is green, we would greatly appreciate it! This could be food that is normally green (cucumbers, celery, grapes) or something made green that is usually not green (cookies, pudding, etc). Please send the green food to school in the morning. Thanks!

Extra 30 Minutes

The 30 extra minutes added to our school day to make up for snow days begins TODAY, March 16. This will continue every day until Friday, April 1. Students will be dismissed at 3:00 instead of 2:30.

What will we be doing during this extra time in our classroom? We will have enough time for writing! Our writing time is usually cut short, not allowing students time to really be creative and add details in their writing. We also only have enough time for 2 tables to have their writing checked each day. During our normal writing time we will have a mini-lesson and then do our own writing in journals in the extra 30 minutes at the end of the day. This will give us more time to devote to more students and do more "adult writing" for them. They will also be able to share their work with their friends. We look forward to this extra time together! :)

Newsletter for 3.7-3.11

We Love to Read Week at JELV

Just a little reminder of the things we will do this week to celebrate reading week:

• Wednesday: Crazy Sock Day (We will read Fox in Socks.)
• Thursday: Pajama and Crazy Hair Day (We will read The Cat in the Hat Came Back.)
• Friday: Wear ALL Green Day (We will read Green Eggs and Ham.)