Spring Intersession

Spring Intersession
Registration will be February 3rd and 4th from 7:30 a.m. -2:00 p.m. The cost is $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-serve 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!

Morning Sessions (8:00-11:00)
Course                         Teacher                  Grade(s)
Soccer                      Stearnes/Shadow         1-5
Batter-Up                       Keith                      1-5
Pioneer Life                   Hughes                   1-3
Music in 3D                  Van Dyke               3-5

Afternoon Sessions (12:00-3:00)
Chess                       Stearnes/Shadow          1-5
Art Fiesta                      Larrick                     1-5
Just Dance                    Cassidy                    1-5

Check out the Campus School website for course descriptions for each class.

Homefun and Important Dates

Weekly homefun
We have adjusted this week's homefun so that students can work on their Black History Letter Project (due Friday, January 31st) and get in their one hour of Typing Club.  Additionally, adjustments have been made to their Reading Plus assignments to meet the requirements of district mandates.  They are to complete 1 IBalance, 2 ReadArounds, and 4 SeeReaders. Again, students will not have to complete any Study Island assignments at this time.  We will resume SI after the writing test.

Important Dates

Wednesday, January 29

Bring a sack lunch for the Lady Tigers game!

January 23-31

CSPN Spirit Shirt Fundraiser

February 6 (Thursday)

Lenny’s Spirit Night

521 S. Highland

3:00-8:00 p.m.

February 13 (Thursday)

Spring Picture Day

February 17-21

Book Fair

in the playroom

 

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

by Paul Curtis

 

The book is based in Flint, Michigan, with the narrator, Kenny, introducing his family in a cold house on the couch huddled up together, the "Weird Watsons'". His family includes his dad, his mom, older brother Byron, nicknamed By, and their younger sister Joetta, nicknamed Joey. This section is largely a description of the Watsons' family life: Byron kissing his reflection in a car mirror in January and freezing his lips to the chilled glass, Kenny's friend LJ stealing many of Kenny's toy dinosaurs, the countrified new kids at school, and Byron's sliding into friendship with the bad element in town. It is this last episode that prompts the main conflict in the story, as Byron's behavior worsens. Ultimately he is caught again playing with matches despite having been warned repeatedly against doing just this.

 

At this point, the family decides Byron should live with his Grandma Sands in Alabama for the Summer and if things don't work out he'll stay there for the next school year. It is, however, when the grandmother's church is bombed that the family decides to return home, with Byron, in an attempt to avoid explaining the full implications of what has happened to the children.

 

Kenny, having never encountered racism of this magnitude before, is unable to process what has happened—he ran to the church moments after the bombing took place as he believed his sister to be in the building, and saw the aftermath. As a result of the bomb, four little girls had died, one was blinded, and one had to have one of her eyes removed. Byron does his best to help Kenny understand what has happened, as the parents are reluctant to explain. Kenny sees that though the world is not perfect, he has to keep pushing on.

                                                Seeker of Knowledge 

by James Rumford

In 1802, Jean-Francois Champollion was eleven years old. That year, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt’s ancient hieroglyphs. Champollion’s dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past, and he dedicated the next twenty years to the challenge.
James Rumford introduces the remarkable man who deciphered the ancient Egyptian script and fulfilled a lifelong dream in the process. Stunning watercolors bring Champollion’s adventure to life in a story that challenges the mind and touches the heart.

Winter Break Challenge

All students who completed the Winter Break Challenge received information regarding their reward in their Friday Folder. The students will go to the UC next Friday, January 17th as a reward for their extra effort. Thank you parents for your continued support!