4 DAY WEEKEND!! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!

Just wanted to remind you all that we do not have school this Friday through Monday in observance of Memorial Day.  Have a wonderful extended weekend with your family.  The weather is supposed to be incredible, so I hope that you spend some time outside!!  See you all again on Tuesday.

Connolly Ranch Field Trip next Monday!!

Just a reminder that our Kindergarten classes will be travelling to Napa next Monday to visit the Connolly Ranch.  This will be a fun and exciting field trip (and our first one in over 5 years).  Students come to school in the AM (8:15am) and we will load the buses and depart for our adventure at 9am.  Students should dress comfortably for a day at the Ranch, and should also bring a lunch (we will eat there).

There are many fun things we will get to do.  Besides a tour of the Ranch, we will get to learn about farm life, farm animals, planting/harvesting crops, and many other cool things.  There is a bit of something for everyone, and is sure to be a highlight to our school year.

We will leave the farm around 12:30 and plan on arriving back to school at 1:30 for pickup.  Thanks for turning in the permission slips and for the many parent helpers that have signed up to join us on the trip.
-Mr. Linnet

Fun Earth Day event tomorrow at Fairfield Civic Center Pond...

I plan on taking Skylar to participate in this great event.  Hopefully I will see some of you there.  The first 250 kids that come get a free Fishing Pole and get to participate in the kid's Fishing Derby.  If you go, please take some pictures and share them with me.  I will add some of my own with Skylar.



Let's all "Go Green!" and have fun in our community at the same time.  (There will be other Earth Day activities going on downtown if you aren't into fishing).  Fishing registration starts at 7:30am, the rest of the Earth Day events take place from 8-12 noon.  See you there, fellow Conservationists!!
-Mr. Linnet

Check out my fish!

This week's At-Home Project: Make a Color-Mixing Video

This week’s At-Home Project: Make a Color-Mixing Video

Hello Super Students,

This week I wanted to challenge our class to do something very different, and hopefully very fun.  In class we will be exploring colors and learning how to mix primary colors to make secondary colors.

 

I thought it would be a lot of fun to let you become the teacher as you create your own lesson on mixing colors, then have mom or dad record you teaching your lesson (to the class, to a brother/sister, to anybody you want to).  Have them record the video on their smartphone or tablet, then email me the link so that I can add it to our blog.  This way everyone in class can see your great lesson on mixing colors.

 

I have posted some videos to our blog to give you ideas, but feel free to get creative and have fun with this project.  Use paint, food coloring, playdoh, tissue paper, anything you want that will allow you to show others how to mix colors.  Try to keep the videos under 5 minutes so that I can post them on the blog (long videos sometimes won’t upload for me).  I’ve never done this project before, so this is not mandatory, just something fun to try out.  I hope that you enjoy it!!

 

I’m very excited to see what my little teachers have to share with us!

-Mr. Linnet