Dear Parents and Guardians,

Last week we attended a perrformance at Mandel Hall. The St. Louis Quartert Orchestra played music from Beethoven and other composers that reflected the time in which the composers lived. It was a great performance and such a wonderful experience for our students.

The third grade will begin to practice for the third grade play based on Chicago. We have started to learn about important events in Chicago's history as well as it's present. We have started to learn the music to accompany the skits performed by the three third grade rooms as well as learn dance steps that help to make this a performance that incorporates all the modalities used by our diverse learners. We dance, we sing, we speak, we perform! The play is scheduled for the early part of June. A final date has not been set yet. I will keep you updated on the actual day and time.

I'd like to ask if you could send a box or two of kleenex with your child. This is the time of year allergies and viruses invade. We run out of kleenex quite quickly and it would be very much appreciated if you can supply a box or two to get us to the end of the year. Thank you in advance.

THIS WEEK WE WILL BE WORKING ON THE FOLLOWING:

LANGUAGE ARTS:

We will be taking a comprehension test on Kids Business, the nonfiction selection in our OpenCourt readers which tells us about the great business ventures of