Week of March 9

Important reminders

• March 8: Daylight Savings Time begins, time to spring forward and enjoy longer days

• March 15: Last day to nominate May Center for SF Reporter’s Best of Santa Fe, link below

• March 16-20: Spring Break

• March 30-April 3: Spirit Week

• April 3: Intermediate Spring Dance

• April 8: Community Seminar, movie: Like Stars on Earth

• Lunch reminder: Please send utensils in your child’s lunchbox

Exploring Nature

This week, Ms. Melia provided a captivating lesson to our youngest students on the parts of a flower. They practiced new vocabulary, matching vocabulary to the parts of a flower and closely examining flowers with magnifying glasses.  It was great to witness the wonder of the children through this lesson.

Lest we (Never) Forget

As part of their studies of WWI, students in Ms. Trudy’s class learned  that November 11th (Veteran’s Day in the USA) is Remembrance Day in most of Europe and across the World in countries that fought in the "war to end all wars.”  Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month”. After the war, where 20 million people lost their lives, poppies grew in some of the fields that were once WWI battlefields. Now, each year, people wear poppies to commemorate the lives lost in the war.  Students created a poster of poppies to culminate their WWI studies.