Chick-fil-A Family Reading Night

Tonight, January 28th, is Chick-fil-A Family Reading Night at all Chick-fil-A locations.  A portion of the proceeds will go towards Read It Forward Jax!, the district's reading initiative aimed at improving literacy rates and reading comprehension skills among all students.

The first grade classes will be performing at the next PTA meeting on Tuesday, February 5th.   We will be sharing a book called Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed.  This book ties in with our character trait for February ,which is charity.   Charity is showing kindness for others and helping those in need. In this story, Ordinary Mary learns that how her one small act of kindness affects so many people.  

2D Shapes

In our geometry unit the students have been exploring the attributes of different two dimensional shapes.  They began filling designs using different 2D shapes. They had to count and record the shapes used.  The students learned that shapes can be decomposed into different shapes.  A hexagon can be made using 2 trapezoids or 6 triangles.  They then composed the same design three times using different combinations of shapes.  Finally they tried to fill a design using a few shapes and then using a larger number of shapes.

Souper Bowl of Caring

The Parkwood family is please to be assisting the Arlington Family Resource Center Full Service School collect canned food as part of the national effort to care for people in our local community who are hungry and those in need.  The Souper Bowl of Caring transforms the time around the Super Bowl into the nation's largest celebration of giving and serving.  Send in your canned food from January 28th through February 1st.

Literacy Week

Last week the students at Parkwood celebrated Literacy Week by participating in a variety of activities.  On Monday, we joined other students throughout the state to read for a total of a million minutes!  On Tuesday the students wore their hats to school as they gave "hats off to literacy".  Wednesday the students "scored with books" and wore their favorite team jersey.  Thursday was "Bananas about Books"...we enjoyed bananas for breakfast, had a book swap and enjoyed a visit from some guest readers from Arlington Middle School.