February 9-13, 2009

Reminders for this week:

Monday at 5:30: Steering Committee Meeting

This month's meeting will include updates about the budget,
upcoming STAR testing, and fundraising.
We will also review our Single Plan for Studnt Achievement.
Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings.


Wednesday and Thursday: School Pictures
Wed: K-2 pictures
Thurs: 3-5 pictures

We will also take class picutres on these days.
Please send your order form and payment on picture day.
Pictures will be back the week of Feb. 23-27,
and we will also do retakes if needed.

Friday at 9:30: 3-5 class is going to the Arcata High Math Fair
We need signed permission slips and parent drivers.
PLease sign up if you can drive.

Next week is Presidents Week.
School is closed.

I wanted to remind everyone that lunches are ordered
every morning at 9:30.
If your child is coming to school late but needs to order lunch,
please call ahead.

Snack does not need to be ordered in advance,
but we cannot guarantee your child can order lunch after 9:30.
Thanks.

Science Fair is coming up soon.
Trillium's fair is on March 3rd,
and the winning projects will go to the county fair the next day.

All students should be well underway with their experiments or research
working on their backboards.

Remember that everything needs to be in the logbook,
including research, trials, graphs, observations, and a bibliography.

Every time your student even thinks about their project, they should log it.
At the county science fair, the majority of scoring is based on the logbook,
and the backboard is secondary.
The backboard is just a visual a summary of the project.

If you need any help with this, Aly and Marianne are available.