Through Jump Rope For Heart kids learn jump rope skills, how their heart works and raise money to help kids with special hearts. Have fun, learn how to stay healthy and make a difference in the lives of others!


Please stop by on Friday, March 2nd to see our fourth grade classes jump rope at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse from 10:15-11:15.


Upcoming Events:
February 27: Bring in Boxtops for Education! 
March 1: Think Show 
March 2: CSPN 100% Participation JEANS DAY!!
Jump Rope for Heart in Field House from 10:00am - 11:15am 
March 5 - 19: Spring Break!

KIDS KAN

Please help us support the Mid South Food Bank, by bringing in non-perishable canned goods like canned tuna, peanut butter, canned fruits and canned vegetables by Friday, February 24th. For the last 24 years, the KIDS KAN program has been proving that children can make a difference when it comes to the fight against hunger. This food drive results in collecting nearly half a million pounds of canned goods! It spans from Germantown Elementary, to Bellevue Middle School, to St. Benedict at Auburndale High School, with city, county, and private school students all working together for one common goal. Last year alone, students brought in an amazing 400,000pounds of food! Remember, if students bring in 3 cans, they may wear jeans on Friday, February 24, which is the last day of the drive.

Upcoming Events:
February 20: Teacher In-Service Day (No School for Students)
February 21: Black History Month's "It's Trivia Time!"
February 23: Class and Individual Picture Day
(Money must be sent on Picture Day)
Skate Night at Cordova Skate Center
Domino’s Dough Night
March 1: Think Show
March 2: Jump Rope for Heart in Field House from 10:00am - 11:15am
March 5 - 19: Spring Break

Think Show

Think Show will be held on March 1st, 2012. This year, students will be using the projects that they created for Campus School’s Centennial Celebration as the basis for their Think Show projects. Students who researched “Costs of Living,” were not asked to write a narrative for the Centennial Celebration. However, every student will now be required to create a written narrative for the Think Show. Please use the following guidelines – as well as your initial narrative - to assist you in the writing process:

o Narratives must answer the following question: 

How did ___________________impact life during 1920 – 1929, as well as life today? (Music, History, Media, Costs of Living)

o Narratives must include three paragraphs of at least 5 sentences each (Introduction, Body, Conclusion). Remember to use an inviting opening, as well as an effective ending!

o Your conclusion must include a reflection of what you learned, as well as your experience working on this project.

o Use Courier Font (size 14) to give narratives the look of a typed document from the 1920’s.

o Students will use the original artifacts from the Centennial Celebration to accompany their Think Show projects. 

!!!!TYPED NARRATIVES ARE DUE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17!!!!

In order to give students the time that they will need to produce “museum quality” Think Show projects, there will be no other Homefun this week!

Upcoming Events:

February 14: Valentine's Party 1:30pm - 2:30pm 

February 20: Teacher In-Service Day (No School for Students) 

February 21: Black History Month's "It's Trivia Time!" 

February 23: Class and Individual Picture Day (Money must be sent on Picture Day) 

Skate Night 

Domino’s Dough Night 

March 1: Think Show 

March 2: Jump Rope for Heart in Field House from 10:00am - 11:15am 

March 5 - 19: Spring Break

KIDS KAN

The 'Kids Kan' program has been proving that youngsters can make a difference when it comes to the fight against hunger. This food drive results in nearly half a million pounds of canned goods.

Please consider participating by brining in canned goods to help The Mid-South Food Bank.

The food drive will last from Monday, Feb. 13- Friday, Feb. 24 

If children bring in 3 cans they may wear jeans on Friday, Feb. 24 (the last day of the drive)

BOOK FAIR

The SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR will be February 13th – 17th. Students will be able to shop at the fair during their P.E. classes Monday-Thursday. On Thursday, February 16th, we will have our Family Night from 6pm-8pm. Your family can shop together, enjoy refreshments for a nominal fee and enter drawings for free books. You may also want to help build your child’s classroom library by donating a book from our Teacher Wish List. We will also have a special guest reader. More information will be sent home soon. If you would like to volunteer to help with the book fair, please sign up at http://cspnvolunteers.wikispaces.com/Book+Fair

PICS FROM LAST WEEK

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

THIS IS IT!

Our fourth grade class has the honor of presenting this weeks life skill, This Is It!, at Family Gathering! Join us this Friday in the playroom at 8:00.

George vs George

Next week we will begin reading the book, George vs. George. Below is description of Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging and wonderfully illustrated book, that brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.

The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, both named George: George Washington, the man who freed the American colonies from the British, and George III, the British king who lost them. Two leaders on different sides of the Atlantic, yet with more in common than we sometimes acknowledge. We are lead through their story, and the story of their times, and see both sides of the arguments that divided the colonies from the Kingdom. Was King George a "Royal Brute" as American patriots claimed? Or was he, as others believed, "the father of the people?" Was George Washington a scurrilous traitor, as all the king's supporters claimed? Or should we remember and celebrate him as "the father of his country?" Who was right? History teaches us that there are two sides to every story.

Rosalyn Schanzer's book is an accessible account of one the most vital periods in American history. It is also a timeless lesson in seeing history from different points of view. The author spent two years researching books, paintings, cartoons, and descriptions of Revolutionary times. She uses art, text, and first-hand accounts to illustrate how history should never be reduced to simplistic conflicts between the "good guys" and the "bad guys." Her illustrations, and her engaging quote bubbles, bring the Revolution to life again, and allow the characters of the period to speak for themselves. Through its lively text, detailed illustrations, and fully authenticated quotes, George vs. George shines fresh light on both sides of the story of our country's formative years.

Spring Intercession

Spring Intersession will be held March 5-9, 2012. Registration for each course is limited. 

Scholarship applications are due Friday, February 3, 2012.

Registration: February 9 and 10, 2012 

Time: 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 

Cost: $70 per session. Payment is due at registration and is non-refundable. PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN CASH ONLY.

Classes will be assigned on a “first-come, first-served” basis. Please turn in your child’s completed registration form at the intersession registration table located in the hall near the school office. DO NOT SEND IT WITH YOUR CHILD OR TO THE TEACHER!

PICTURES FROM THE WEEK

Fun with Static Friction

The student's working hard to complete a Forces WebQuest at the University's Computer Lab

Paul Revere’s Ride

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Listen my children and you shall hear 

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, 

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; 

Hardly a man is now alive 

Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march 

By land or sea from the town to-night, 

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch 

Of the North Church tower as a signal light,– 

One if by land, and two if by sea; 

And I on the opposite shore will be, 

Ready to ride and spread the alarm 

Through every Middlesex village and farm, 

For the country folk to be up and to arm."

Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar

Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, 

Just as the moon rose over the bay, 

Where swinging wide at her moorings lay 

The Somerset, British man-of-war; 

A phantom ship, with each mast and spar 

Across the moon like a prison bar, 

And a huge black hulk, that was magnified 

By its own reflection in the tide.

You know the rest. In the books you have read 

How the British Regulars fired and fled,— 

How the farmers gave them ball for ball, 

From behind each fence and farmyard wall, 

Chasing the redcoats down the lane, 

Then crossing the fields to emerge again 

Under the trees at the turn of the road, 

And only pausing to fire and load.

So through the night rode Paul Revere; 

And so through the night went his cry of alarm 

To every Middlesex village and farm,— 

A cry of defiance, and not of fear, 

A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, 

And a word that shall echo for evermore! 

For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, 

Through all our history, to the last, 

In the hour of darkness and peril and need, 

The people will waken and listen to hear 

The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, 

And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

THIS IS IT!

Our fourth grade class has the honor of presenting this weeks life skill, This Is It!, at Family Gathering! Join us this Friday in the playroom at 8:00.

George vs George

Next week we will begin reading the book, George vs. George. Below is description of Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging and wonderfully illustrated book, that brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.

The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, both named George: George Washington, the man who freed the American colonies from the British, and George III, the British king who lost them. Two leaders on different sides of the Atlantic, yet with more in common than we sometimes acknowledge. We are lead through their story, and the story of their times, and see both sides of the arguments that divided the colonies from the Kingdom. Was King George a "Royal Brute" as American patriots claimed? Or was he, as others believed, "the father of the people?" Was George Washington a scurrilous traitor, as all the king's supporters claimed? Or should we remember and celebrate him as "the father of his country?" Who was right? History teaches us that there are two sides to every story.

Rosalyn Schanzer's book is an accessible account of one the most vital periods in American history. It is also a timeless lesson in seeing history from different points of view. The author spent two years researching books, paintings, cartoons, and descriptions of Revolutionary times. She uses art, text, and first-hand accounts to illustrate how history should never be reduced to simplistic conflicts between the "good guys" and the "bad guys." Her illustrations, and her engaging quote bubbles, bring the Revolution to life again, and allow the characters of the period to speak for themselves. Through its lively text, detailed illustrations, and fully authenticated quotes, George vs. George shines fresh light on both sides of the story of our country's formative years.

Spring Intercession

Spring Intersession will be held March 5-9, 2012. Registration for each course is limited. 

Scholarship applications are due Friday, February 3, 2012.

Registration: February 9 and 10, 2012 

Time: 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 

Cost: $70 per session. Payment is due at registration and is non-refundable. PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN CASH ONLY.

Classes will be assigned on a “first-come, first-served” basis. Please turn in your child’s completed registration form at the intersession registration table located in the hall near the school office. DO NOT SEND IT WITH YOUR CHILD OR TO THE TEACHER!

PICTURES FROM THE WEEK

Fun with Static Friction

The student's working hard to complete a Forces WebQuest at the University's Computer Lab

formative years.