An Update

Good evening parents,
       I just wanted to remind you of the Reading Celebration tomorrow.  We will be outside most of the day so you may want to put sunscreen on your child before he/she comes to school in the morning.  Your children are also welcome to bring in a towel, bottled water, and a hat.  You are welcome to join them for lunch as well.  We will be eating at 1:10 in the classroom which is later than our usual time.  However, the day will be full of fun activities.  I will be taking many pictures as well.
       I wanted to thank everyone that joined us for our field trip on Tuesday.  The kids had a blast and everything went very well.  Thank you Mrs. Ansley, Mrs. Cooper, Ms. McKnight, Mr. and Mrs. Brundage, Mrs. Duke, Mrs. Siu, Ms. Williams, Mrs. Whitley, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Maxie, Mrs. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Davison, Mrs. Vargas, and Mr. Grant for all of your help!  It was really appreciated.  Thank you!
     I also wanted to thank everyone for sending in all of the materials we have recently run out of.  We now have plenty of pencils again and enough kleenex to last the year.  We are still in need of notebook paper though.  The class goes through quite a bit each week.  A big thanks goes out to Mrs. Belch as well for the box of paper sent in earlier this year.  It is that case of paper that has helped us out these past few weeks with copies since the school is now completely out of paper.  Thanks!
      You may want to also check out the student blog at some time.  Students have been working diligently on their "how to's" and we have been publishing them as they finish (http://cowanspanthers.blogspot.com/).  I hope to have every student publish at least 1 piece.  It will probably take us until the end of the year but it will be worth it.  The students are the ones doing most of the typing.  I simply go over it with them once they are done so they have every reason to be proud of their hard work.
     As always, thank you for all of your support and feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks,
Mrs. Cowan 

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Countdown to Earth Day: EPA Photo and Video Projects

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Date: April 15, 2009 5:20:15 PM EDT

Subject: Countdown to Earth Day: EPA Photo and Video Projects

Source: White House.gov Blog Feed: WhiteHouse.gov Blog

Author: The White House

We mentioned once before that the EPA is collecting videos and photos in honor of Earth Day, so for the next week we'll pick one we happen to like to tease you with here on WhiteHouse.gov.  For starters, here's "Valley View Farm Sunset 2008," courtesy of user Goddess of Green:

 

Think you can beat that? Head over to the Photo Project.

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Refraction of Light

Today we learned about refraction of light. Here is a short video about that demonstrates and explains refraction.

Happy Easter!