Room 5

Stevenson Rocks - Classroom Baskets

2010-04-14T17:40:00.000-07:00

Every year Stevenson Rocks has baskets from each grade level which will be assembled and auctioned at the event. This year the basket themes for Mrs. Diamonds’s class are:

“That’s Alright With Me” – Mom stuff like…. Spa gift cards, cooking stuff, music, wine, magazines subscriptions, music gift card, cooking class…

“Cadillac Man” – Dad Stuff… Jiffy Lube gift card, air fresheners, Armor All, i-pod attachment, car blanket, first aid kit, travel cups, lottery tickets, Santa Anita Turf passes, movies/CD’s…

The items noted above are simply ideas (please, nothing from the 99¢ Store)…be creative! Maybe you have a special talent that you can offer as a gift certificate (e.g. lawn mowing, gardening, cooking dinner for family, pet or babysitting).

***If you choose to use gift cards, we encourage you to purchase them through Escrip. These can be purchased after school on Fridays. Additional ways to donate can be found online at www.stevensonpirates.net.***

All items must be turned into the office by Friday, April 16th. Please make sure you note Room 5 on your donation.

If you have any questions, please call

Kari Conahan 818-523-6056 or email conahans@sbcglobal.net

or Monika Gosch

818 404 1874 monikagosch@gmail.com

Thank you for your continued support of your child’s school!!!

Underwood Family Farms

2010-04-14T17:33:00.000-07:00

The kids had a great time learning and picking strawberries.

DONUTS FOR DADS - THIS FRIDAY!

2010-04-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

Dear Dad's- Come and join your child(ren) for a continental style breakfast and some quality time this Friday morning in the library from 7:30 until class starts. This is a great event to bring parents and kids together! You sure don't want to miss this!

Please contact me should you have any questions!

Kari Conahan
818-523-6056
conahans@sbcglobal.net

Room 5 News Week of 3/22/2010

2010-03-24T12:46:00.000-07:00

Ms. Diamond's News
Thank you to all of the families that came to Open House! I could see on the children's faces how much that night meant to them. I am so proud of them!

Language Arts News
We have been writing like crazy in room 5! Our science unit on plants was a major writing topic these last two months. Now we are ready to write all about springtime.

Math News
Students have mastered place value (understanding tens and ones) and telling time to the half hour. We have also learned the patterns involved in counting by twos, fives, and tens to 100.

Science/Soc. Studies News
The study of plants has dominated our science unit for the past two months. We have gone on nature walks, pulled weeds, studied plant parts, fruits, vegetables, and watched beans sprout. The students are excited by their new knowledge, and are able to apply it to new experiences in the real world!

Students of the Day/Month
Angelina Lee- responsibility
Jacob Conahan- compassion
Matthew Mahr- self-discipline

Birthdays and Special Days
March 1st- Kaitlin's birthday
April 9th coming up: Field Trip to the Underwood Farm

Art News
We have had the great privilege of having Ms. Barbara Eisner come to our class to teach standard-based art lessons in our class.

Room 5 Wish List
1. We need Ziploc bags! We need sandwich sized, quart sized, and storage sized bags.

2. We need pointers! Our students use these sticks daily, and many have broken. We especially need ones 2-3 feet (24"-36") long. You may order these from Lakeshore or find some cylindrical sticks at a hardware store. :-)

2010-01-25T21:11:00.000-08:00

Ms. Diamond's News:
2010 is off to a great start! First graders have been in school for 100 days! Students celebrated by having a 100th day party, where we counted to 100, read books about 100, made equations with 100, played games about 100, and made party mix with food that students brought in. We added 100 cheerios, 100 skittles, 100 apple jacks, 100 rice chex, 100 grapes, 100 banana chips, etc. We had a great time celebrating all the fun and learning that room 5 has done in 100 days.

Students of the Month:
October- Maddie Simpson, for showing cooperation
November- Diego Castellon, for showing Honesty
December- Bella Boulais, for showing generosity

Students of the Day:
Elijah, Kaitlin, Mylo, Sara, Evelyn, Elizabeth, Matthew, Diego, Trisha, Bella, Janesh, Hank, Pranav, Renee, Michael, Daniel, Angie, Sandor, Jacob and Grace

Important Dates:
January 5- Janesh and Hank's birthday
January 9th- Elijah's birthday
January 17th- Sara's birthday
January 19th- Evelyn's birthday

Language Arts News:
Power hour has been a huge success. We have been focusing on specific reading skills and strategies with each first grade class, and many students have made such improvement that they have transitioned to a more challenging Power Hours group in order to meet their needs!

Math News:
Students have been moving quickly through our math series, learning about place value, graphing, addition and subtraction, geometry, and telling time! Students can all tell time to the half hour. Please provide your child with plenty of opportunities to read the time on a an analog (not a digital) clock. Maybe even buy them a watch!

Science/Social Studies News:
In social studies, students studied Martin Luther King, Jr. and his many leadership qualities. We read many biographies and made out own mini-books about his life. IN science, students have been studying weather. We learned how to read thermometers and weather charts. January proved to be a perfect month to witness the power of weather.

Mad Science

2010-01-08T12:15:00.000-08:00

Hi some of us in Room 5 did not receive Mad Science registration forms. Classes begin this Wednesday the 13th. If you want your child to participate which I recommend, Mylo had a blast last time.

Call Mad Science directly at 818-909-6777 to register.

Holiday Boutique

2009-11-16T08:44:00.000-08:00

Holiday Boutique is fast approaching and I really need the help of our excellent RRs. This isn't about fundraising, it's about providing a service for our amazing Stevenson kids.

Here's how you can help!

Work commitments allowing, I'd really appreciate it if you could all commit to working at least one hour during the Boutique. It's a fun way to volunteer as duties include helping the smaller kids pick out gifts and Christmas wrapping.
Could you please contact your parents and ask if any of them can also lend a hand
Please update your blogs about information about the Holiday Boutique. If you can include a link to the following page on the main website, that would be ideal: http://stevensonpirates.net/home/fundraisers/holiday-boutique/

gift cards

2009-11-15T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hi --

I know we ask you all year long to ‘buy this’ and ‘support that’ for our school and we totally appreciate every last order you place! Your Made in the Shade Committee has a new service for you! Purchase gift cards from us to help raise funds for much needed shade structures for our playgrounds.

Did you know that you can support the school with your every day purchases? You simply register your credit, macy's, von’s and atm cards online and a small percentage of every dollar you spend gets donated to Stevenson Elementary! Stevenson’s eScrip school ID is: 141523068

Click here to find out more:
http://stevensonpirates.net/home/fundraisers/escrip-fundraiser/

DO YOU BUY GIFT CARDS?
Buy them from www.shopwithscrip.com and a small percentage of every card purchased gets donated to Stevenson Elementary! We have found that a lot of the places we already shop are in this program so buy purchasing gift cards we are able to budget how much we spend (like starbucks for example!) and help to the school at the same time. Stevenson’s enrollment code is: CB759E9121L4L

Click here to find out more:
http://stevensonpirates.net/home/fundraisers/shopwithscrip/

End of October Classroom Update

2009-10-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

November is quickly approaching! Our children are working full speed ahead! Below I have posted some valuable information from our teacher Ms. Diamond on what is happening in the classroom.

Ms. Diamond's News:
Room 5 is working very well together to learn while having fun!! Ask your child what math games they worked on today!

Language Arts News:

"Power Hour" is off to a great start! Each reading group is hard at work refining skills.
Writing- Room 5 students have worked together to write our own scary story! We will now make books with illustrations.

Math News:

Students have worked on mastering the relationships between addition and subtraction. We

play math games everyday to reinforce skills!

Science/Social Studies News:

Students have completed our unit on laws and rules of the community. We also have learned about healthy alternatives to drugs during Red Ribbon Week.

Art News:

We have created unique pumpkins and spooky ghosts to decorate the Boo Bash this Friday.

Room 5 Wish list:

Pumpkins- both large and small, to touch , draw and write about.

Students of the Day for the last 2 weeks on October:

Sandor
Daniel
Trisha
Diana
Mylo

Bella
Hank
Pranav
Benjamin
Ana

Birthday's and Special Days:
10/27- Trisha
10/30 Michael
BooBash 10/30

Boo Bash

2009-10-05T09:53:00.000-07:00

Boo Bash! Friday, October 30th 5-8pm

The success of our events hinges on the support of our amazing Stevenson families. We would appreciate any help with supplies for our upcoming Boo Bash event.

Volunteers needed!

Our Class has Knock em' Sock em' game really simple and fun. If you would like to help please email me

monika@freshandsmoked.com

Needed are Dads for security to keep our kids safe.

Needed BBQ masters if you can and enjoy to BBQ sign up with me.

See you there

Help R.L Stevenson win $20,000 in the “America’s Favorite School” contest

2009-10-05T09:49:00.000-07:00

America’s favorite school contest

The school with the most votes wins $20,000!

Every week a lucky school wins $500
Open to all K-12 schools

www.americasfavoriteschool.com

vote from Sept. 14 - Nov. 8

Whether you are a parent, teacher, student or community member, you can help R.L Stevenson win $20,000 in the “America’s Favorite School” contest sponsored by Care2 and GreatSchools

http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/601567?refer=11284.02.1253229485.118932

The more votes our school gets, the better our school’s chances of winning. This contest is a fun opportunity to rally community support for our school as well as a great way to win much-needed financial support in this difficult economy.

Here are some easy things you can do to spread the word and get people to vote for your school:

Send an email to your friends and network asking them to vote for your school. (email me and I will email you the sample email.)
Add a banner to your website, blog, Facebook or MySpace page. You can also ask your friends and family to post a banner to support your school. (email me and I get you the proper links)
Have you friends and family join our facebook group “America's Favorite School R.L Stevenson” and vote! vote!

3. Post a flyer your local library, your neighborhood coffee shop, or other local venues.

4.We are trying to get noticed by local media. If any of you or anyone you know has a media contact let me know so we can work together on getting helping R.L Stevenson win $20,000

If you have any questions regarding the contest don’t hesitate to contact me at monika@freshandsmoked.com

PTA

2009-10-05T09:45:00.000-07:00

There is still time to join the PTA.....it is just $5.00.

SO PLEASE SIGN-UP NOW and support our PTA which does so much for our school!
THANKS!

http://stevensonpirates.net/home/pta/join-the-pta/

October Events

2009-10-05T08:30:00.000-07:00

Tues. Oct. 6 Craft Club - Holiday Boutique crafts

Thu. Oct. 8 8:30 am PTA/FFS Meeting

Fri. Oct. 9 Art Day/ Reflections Kick-Off

Oct. 19-23 Red Ribbon Week

Tues. Oct. 27 Pizza Night

Fri. Oct. 30 Boo Bash

Pizza Night

2009-09-28T19:42:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow night (Sept 29th) is pizza night at North End Pizzeria! 20% of the proceeds benefit FFS ( Families For Stevenson). FFS pays for the music, art, dance and other specialty programs at Stevenson. This event will happen the last Tuesday of every month!

Location and phone number are listed below:

212 East Orange Grove Ave.

Burbank, CA 91502

818-557-8325

P.S. Don't forget to provide the pizzera with the flyer that went home in todays folder!

Room 5 - 9/27/09 update

2009-09-27T16:19:00.000-07:00

School is off to a fantastic start, Mrs. Diamond and all of our kids are very enthusiastic about this year. As we progress through the year we will be updating you on class room events, School events, deadlines, and things to look forward to...such as Boo Bash!

For those who don't know what Boo Bash is, or are new to Stevenson, this is an incredible family fun night event, the kids dress up in their costumes, play carnival type games, enjoy some food and treats. This year the event will be held on Friday October 30th, Room 5 is in charge of the "Goldfish" booth this year. We will need volunteers to help set up, work the booth and clean up. Anyone willing to volunteer your time please email me at conahans@sbcglobal.net, we will find a time slot that works best for your schedule, and allows you to still have fun with your kids!

I wanted to send a special thank you to those who donated items to our class room or the school this year. Everyone has been so generous, when I asked Mrs. Diamond what she needed for the classroom to help her have a successful year, her list was short to say the least. She is looking for the following items below, anyone willing to help out with these supplies is greatly appreciated.

desk size dry erase boards ( currently we are 3 short of everyone having the privilege of using these. ) We are asking for 5 total, there are a couple that are not in the best of shape.
small toys/pencils/ trinkets type things for Mrs. Diamonds prize draw. A lot of our kids have been coming home with items from the prize draw, this is an incredible motivator for our kids to continue to do their best!

Our Made in the Shade committee has kicked off the "gift card program", for those who haven't heard, the committee is working VERY hard to put shade on our playgrounds to ensure our children are safe! They are hoping to have the first of 4 structures started this summer. Do to safety issues and state regulations, the cost to put up the structures is tremendous. To help raise the funds they have set up this wonderful programs of selling gift cards for stores you shop at everyday, you purchase the cards for face value as you can at the merchant or your local grocery store, but in return the company donates a percentage back to our shade structure fund. Every other Monday an order form will be going home in your child's Monday folders, if you have any questions or need more information about the program please let me know!

Don't forget, homework packets are due back every Friday along with the Red Homework folders. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kari Conahan

818-523-6056

conahans@sbcglobal.net