This Week

Thursday is Science TAKS! The students have been studying really hard for this for a LONG time. Please make sure that your student gets a good amount of sleep on Wednesday night and eats a healthy breakfast on Thursday. We will have muffins and orange juice at school...but you may want to feed them before.

As always, no cell phones, backpacks or visitors at school on TAKS days. 

Update on the Finch Nest!

This is on 4.22.11:



This is on 4.25.11:

FIVE eggs now! We will have our hands full!



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Finch Nest Update

Well, the original egg is no where to be found. However, the birds have made ANOTHER nest in ANOTHER hanging basket...our class will continue to watch this nest.

4.19.11



4.21.11





Finch Nest

This weekend, Mr. Douglas and I made a discovery in one of our hanging plants.

I had noticed some beautiful song birds chriping at all hours of night coming from my front porch, so I assumed they were hanging out there. In the morning, when I went to check it out I noticed two birds were flying around the basket, sitting on the chain and zooming in and out of my plant. The dad looked like this:

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When the birds were away from the plant I took a peak inside and this is what I saw!

4/16/11

The parents have been bringing little seeds and parts of plants to surround the egg with. I will keep you up to date with the progress of our egg! Our class is going to assume this egg as a class pet, so we will shortly be naming the egg and watching it closely through pictures I take while at home.

UPDATE: Our class had decided to name our little egg...Leonardo De'FINCHY!!
But Finchy for short.

Keep track with us!

Boosterthon on Friday!

Our class will run in the Boosterthon Fun Run THIS Friday, April 15 at 11:15 in the morning! Please come support your runner. You just need to sign in at the front office and they will tell you where to go!

Tonight is the LAST night to get donations so, if your student is going to participate, now is the time!

As of yesterday, our class was FIRST in the SCHOOL! Today we were THIRD!

Help us catch those other classes!

Another Update: Our school managed to get donations from ALL 50 STATES! That means Mr. I will be dressing up as JUSTIN BIEBER! Personally, I CAN'T WAIT!  :)

Now he looks like THIS:



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Soon he will look like THIS:



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Baskin Robbins Night!



Thanks intuitive.com and Baskin Robbins for the pic!

Tomorrow is Baskin Robbins Night! Support Robertson Elementary by taking your family for a yummy snack!

Boosterthon

Robertson is participating in the school's first Boosterthon!

Students have been asked to participate by getting family members, friends and community members to donate by pledging a certain dollar amount for each lap the student will run. The Fun Run will take place on April 15th. 5th grade will run from 11:15-12:15 during the day. You are more than welcomed to come watch your student run! There are prizes that each student can win based on their donations.

Our class will be deciding on a team name, and as a team will be trying to raise the most funding in the school! Help your student by getting them in contact with as many potential sponsors as possible!

AND if we get donations from EVERY STATE in the U.S. Mr I. will dress up like Justin Bieber!

Thanks Justinbieberblog!

Here is a link for more information on the Robertson Boosterthon Fun Run: http://www.boosterthoninfo.com/robertsonelementary/

We are raising funds to supplement PTA's budget and enhance student learning!

Round Up on Friday

Our class will be performing at Robertson Round Up THIS Friday at 2:00! Come see your student perform! Make sure to check in at the front office and then head into the Cafeteria! Performance should start right around 2:05-2:10! 

See you there!

Thanks to gastage.com!

TAKS Prep

Last week we spent time doing our final TAKS prep. In groups we analyzed previous TAKS questions and sorted them based on the type of questions they were. We also discussed the different strategies we know for answering each type of question. Here are some pictures of our students at work! Enjoy!

Skye, Courtney and Peyton



Gage, Tyler, Noah, Billy and Anapaula



Michael, Emmanuel, Caleb and Nate

Kayla, Daniel, Alexis and Zoya



Brian, Aubrey, McKensey and Tre

Scott, Collin, Lyric and Zach