The End Is Near!

Hi Room 21 Families!

I hope you and your student had an excellent Memorial Day weekend. I know most of the kids used the time to catch up on much needed post-camp rest. Hopefully, they've filled you in on their camp experience and told you all about the raccoons, the zip-line and their opinion of the stir-fry.

We are now in the last few weeks of school and we have a lot of things coming down the pike:

• We have SBA testing this Thursday and Friday. We need to make sure that all of our students are here, if possible, for those days, to minimize the amount of make-up testing. We also need to make sure the kids have a good night's sleep before tackling the SBA.
• We have a math test at the end of next week. It will be our last Envision test of the year and will cover all the topics in our data/graphing unit.
• This week, my class will start their last cycle of Interactive Read-Aloud with Mrs. Stenfjord.
• Next week, we will begin our health lessons. I'll be sending home a letter about that today, and you will be able to opt out if you don't want your student studying the Flash curriculum.
• The first draft of our persuasive letters need to be done this week and we'll be finishing them up by next Friday, 6/9.
• The school will be hosting a Moving Up night on June 8 from 6-7; it's a chance for our sixth graders to hear from high school students about how their work at Einstein prepared them for high school. I'll be sending more information about that this week.

As we get closer and closer to June 23rd, please take a moment to remind your student that expectations for classwork and behavior have not changed from how they've been all year. We don't want a massive outbreak of Senioritis to disrupt what has been an excellent year.

Thanks!

Camp Talk

Hey Room 21 Parents,

A couple of reminders before Monday's departure for Camp Orkila:

• We are leaving from Highland Terrace Elementary, not from Echo Lake. Students need to be at Highland Terrace by 7:15 Monday morning. Highland Terrace is located at 100 N. 160th St. in Shoreline. It's right near Shoreline Community College.
• Parents are reminded that anything sent to camp with your students should be clearly labeled with their name. 
• Rolling luggage is fine, but students need to be aware that the ground at camp is uneven and they will have to carry whatever bags they bring for at least a portion of their journey.

Test Talk

We have successfully completed our first day of SBA testing. Thanks so much, Room 21 families, for sending our students prepared. Thanks, also, to Mai Tran and Gergana Genadieva for sending snacks to keep the kids energized during testing. 

We finish up the ELA SBA on Thursday. The math SBA happens June 1st and 2nd.