Mrs. Hallford’s Class Newsletter

May 21^st

Hello!

The class has been hard at work, finishing up their Rembrandt picture studies, autobiographies, and study of the Pilgrim Fathers, as well as their work in various other subjects. I am very pleased with how hard everyone has worked, and we have really had a great semester together!

Here is some information about the last week of school:

Monday, May 25 – No School!

Tuesday, May 26 – Field Day! Please bring your child to Veterans Park rather than Flint. If you need to drop your child off before 9:30, we will transport them to the park. Field day and school are over at 2:00 PM, so please be prepared to pick your child up at Veteran’s Park at that time.

Remember, parents are encouraged to participate in Field Day. We have always had a lot of fun in the past!

Each class has designed their own unique T-shirts. For our class, the students generated a list of names/themes that they liked, chosen from various subjects we have studied this year. They then voted on the top four ideas. The winning vote was “Mrs. Hallford’s Radiant Light Beings” which is in reference to a line from the novel Surviving The Applewhites that we read last semester. The main character of the novel started out as being very badly behaved, and was surprised to find himself being described by another character as a ‘radiant light being’. The students really enjoyed this description and our discussion about how external appearances and even behaviors do not necessarily reflect who someone is as a person., or their eternal soul. After that, I would refer to the students as radiant light beings whenever they were being naughty, as a joke. Thus, “Mrs. Hallford’s Radiant Light Beings”!

If you haven’t sent in $10 to pay for your child’s T-shirt, please do so. Also, snow cones will be available for $3 each at the park, if you would like to give your child some spending money.

Wednesday, May 27-We will have our regularly scheduled classes, with an emphasis on wrapping up any unfinished work. I will also be sending home your child’s final progress report for the year, so be sure to check their folder!

Thursday, May 28- Last day of school! Our class will be cleaning up our classroom, watching the movie Robinson Crusoe, playing our Jamestown game, and participating in the upper school water balloon fight. You may want to send your child with a change of clothes, or have a towel ready for them to sit on in the car! I will be sending home a good deal of completed work with each child.

Also, our very first graduation ceremony will be held the evening of May 28^th, at 7:00 PM. This is a very special event for our school, and I think it is very important that all of the upper school students attend if at all possible. They need a chance to see what they are working so hard for, and to help celebrate the hard work of our first graduating class!

Thank you so much for a wonderful year, and enjoy the summer!

~Mrs. Hallford