A Note from the Office
Spring Conferences
The electronic conference sign-up for our spring parent/teacher conferences will be made available to parents this coming Wednesday, February 28th. Conferences will be held after school in the afternoon and evenings of Wednesday, March 21st from 4-8 p.m. and Thursday, March 22nd from 3-7 p.m. Please note, the electronic system that is being used for parents to sign-up for conferences this time is a new system and will be used by every school throughout the district. It has some great new features and what we hope will be a user-friendly format for parents in scheduling for multiple students. The system is called “Meet the Teacher”.
The number of spaces available for this conference period is more limited than the fall window, as a conference may not be needed for every child at this time. With that said, we continue to value your support and communication and will try our best to connect with parents who would like to communicate regarding their child's progress.
CogAT Assessments for 2nd and 5th Grades
The CogAT Testing window for our 2nd – 5th Grade students is opening on Monday. Parents with students in those two grades can access the official CogAT assessment letter in the Virtual Backpack. Students completed practice tests over the last few weeks in order to become familiar with the format of the test and the types of questions that they would be presented with during the assessment. I encourage parents to ensure that their child(ren) get a good night sleep and have a healthy breakfast next week while the assessments are taking place.
Family Reading Program Update
We had an awesome celebration of reading today with our pancakes and pajamas!! It is hard to believe that we are getting ready to enter into our final week of the Family Reading Program. Our reward for this coming week will be a movie on Friday. Our staff has decided to provide students with some choice in the movie that they watch next Friday. As a result, classroom teachers will communicate with students and parents early on in the week as to which movies will be offered at each grade level and then students and parents can choose which one the student will watch on Friday. Grade level teachers will show different movies in their classrooms, so students will report to the classroom within their grade level where the movie they choose is being shown. We will still be offering the original movie we chose of Big Hero 6, but also wanted to provide students with the opportunity to choose something else as well if they are interested! The suggested reading for The Wild Robot this week for families is to read through the end of the book, which is Chapter 80!
Upcoming Dates
Monday, February 26th – Friday, March 2nd – CogAT Assessments for 2nd and 5th Grades
Tuesday, February 27th – Petition Request Deadline for 2018-2019 School Year
Tuesday, February 27th – Guest Speaker for Parents on How to Raise Resilient Children featuring Jacqueline Rhew, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the BHS Auditorium
Thursday, March 1st - Deadline for Kindergarten Pre-Registration for next school year
Thursday, March 1st – Week #5 Reading Logs Due for Family Reading Program
Friday, March 2nd – Movie Reward for Family Reading Program
Monday, March 5th – Spring MAP Assessments Begin
Tuesday, March 6th – Marking Period 2 Report Cards Sent Home to Parents
Tuesday, March 6th – Board of Education Meeting, 7-9 p.m. @ BHS
Saturday, March 10th – 4th and 5th Grade Speech Tournament
Saturday, March 10th – Orchestra Solo and Ensemble Concert, 8:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
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Great Grove Reads
Wish by Barbara O’Connor
Charlie (Charlotte) Reese has made the same wish multiple times everyday for as long as she can remember. Whether she found a feather and stuck it in the ground, or skipped a stone on calm water or blew out a candle; it has always been the same wish. Until recently, Charlie has lived in Raleigh N.C with her mother and older sister. Her father, Scrappy, has been in and out of correctional facilities because of his bad temper. Charlie has a bit of her father’s temper in her and when she gets angry her first instinct is to fight. That’s better though than being like her mother who stays in bed all day and doesn’t talk to anyone. When social services decides that Charlie needs to stay with her aunt in Colby it is the last place Charlie wants to be. This is hill country and to Charlie that is lower than low. Then she meets Howard, a boy with an up-down walk who is smart, nice and self confident. When she discovers a stray dog that she names Wishbone she is sure that he is meant to be her pet. Through all of her new experiences and people that she has met Charlie starts to see the world differently. Maybe her wish will come true after all.
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The Race Is Over!
Thanks to all of you who clipped and collected Box Tops for the Spring Collection at Grove! You helped our school raise over $619.00 in the four weeks! That means that you submitted 6,197 Box Tops and this is totally amazing! Our school has collectively made over $1000.00 from Box Tops for the 2017-2018 school year! Thank you for all of your hard work! Grove rocked it!
The following classes are the winners and those prizes will be coming soon!
1st Place Pizza Party
Breckan -824 Box Tops
2nd Place Donut Party
Solorio - 526 Box Tops
3rd Place Trinkets
Parker - 459 Box Tops
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Grove’s Tae Kwon Do enrichment program starts Wednesday, March 7th. Open to all students. Sign up by Friday, March 2nd. $40 includes a t-shirt. 100% of the proceeds go to Grove! Register Here |
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