Newsletter Week 29 3/25-3/28

This Week:
  - Short week with Easter Break. No school Friday or the following Monday.
  - Photo contest:
              BDS Photography Contest

To honor Ansel Adams, innovator in the art of photography, BDS will host a contest for our students!

Rules and Guidelines

• Picture must be in black and white
• The subject matter should be landscape or documentation of a social or environmental issue.  
• The student should be the one taking the picture.
• Student is responsible for printing the picture and submitting it.
• If possible, picture should be printed on film paper for better quality.    
• The students MUST DO THEIR OWN WORK!!!
• The pictures are due on Thursday, March 28, 2013.  
• Here is an app if anyone is interested in downloading it:  Dramatic Black and White APP ($1.99).  

- Character Flipbook 

Character Flipbook Contest

We have studied the great innovator, Walt Disney.  Like Walt Disney, the students are to choose an animal to create a character.  I have provided the flipbook materials. The competition will be divided into the following two groups:  K-2^nd and 3^rd-7^th grade.  The first place winner for the K-2^nd group will win a gift card to 32 degrees yogurt.  The first place winner for the 3^rd – 7^th grade will win an iTunes gift card.  Everyone has to complete a flipbook, even if they decide not to enter the contest.  Listed below are requirements the students must follow.

Requirements:
-  title page:  must include character name and illustrator name
-  must include five original drawings of their character doing different motions
-  character must be colored
-  flipbooks are due Wednesday, March 27^th by 3:00


This week:

Math: Geometry

Langauge Arts: Antonyms and Synonyms

Reading: Chapters 8-10 of "Judy Moody Saves the World"

Spelling and Vocabulary:

Spelling: Words with st/str blends.

1. story
2. burst
3. strip
4. street
5. evaporate
6. crust
7. stir
8. stripe
9. least
10. distance

1. He read the story under the covers using his flashlight.
2. Water can evaporate, and ice can melt.

Vocabulary:

1. clasp- a small hook that holds fabric together
2. confused- to be uncertain or unclear about something
3. cornered- to get a person or an animal into a situation or position that is a trap
4. typical- normal or usual for a kind of thing
5. imitated- copied something or someone
6. rhythm- a regular beat in music, poetry, or dance
7. startled- surprised someone and made the person jump

Social Studies:

    We are going to focus this week on doing some Easter Activities. 

On Thursday afternoon, we will be having an Easter egg hunt!