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On behalf of the entire Sope Creek PTA, we wish to thank the many, many parent                                                                                                                                                                               volunteers who gave their time and talent to make each of our enrichment and family fun events a huge success. We could not have done it without you.  We hope you have a happy summer!

Barbara Dyck and Lisa McDougall

PTA Co-Presidents

It is hard to believe, but the PTA is already making plans for the new school year.  We need volunteers to help in several areas:

Monday, August 3rd (8:30am - 12:30pm) - Volunteers needed to stuff PTA Membership packets and to deliver school supply packets to the classrooms.  We will start at 8:30am, but volunteers are welcome any time.  Sign up sheets are posted on the PTA office door (2nd grade hallway) or you can contact Lisa McDougall, maclisa@comcast.net.

Thursday, August 6th (one hours shifts, any time between 11:30am and 4:00pm) - Volunteers are needed to help at Meet and Greet.  Please contact Sally Wright, szwright@bellsouth.net, if you are able to help.

Friday, August 7th - Volunteers are needed to help at the Teacher Back to School Luncheon.  Help is needed any time between 10:30am and 1:00pm.  Volunteers are also needed to donate drinks and/or desserts for the luncheon.  Again, sign up sheets are posted on the PTA office door, or you can contact Lisa McDougall, maclisa@comcast.net.

Turn in your Health and Nutrition Fruit and Veggie Consumption Sheet on Monday!  We hope you had fun tracking all the colorful foods your child consumed during the week.

Box Top Betty says, “LAST BOX TOPS ARE DUE TUESDAY!”  Thank you for making this the best Box Top collection year EVER!  Each Box Top Rewards Coupon is worth 10 cents to the school.  Remember to collect Box Tops all summer for next year’s collection.  Also, sign up for more deals at http://www.boxtops4education.com/AboutBoxTops/News.aspx

Papa John Pizza Night Tuesday – The Sope Creek Foundation’s last pizza night of the year is Tuesday.  Feed your family and earn money for the Foundation.  Let Papa John know you are from Sope Creek and turn in your receipt on Wednesday to the Sope Creek Foundation.

This year's Awards Days are slightly different from the dates posted on the PTA Calendar.  If your child is going to receive be recognized on Awards Day, you will receive an invitation from their teacher. To check on Awards Day Dates and Times: http://sopecreeklibrary.typepad.com/blogs/

2nd Grade Georgia Day is Friday May 15th and volunteers are still needed.  This is a new curriculum enrichment program and we are excited to present all the wonderful history and unique aspects of Georgia to our 2nd Graders.  Please contact Tracy Pickens (tonksy@gmail.com) if you can volunteer. It will be a great learning opportunity for all involved.

Relay for Life/Braves:

This week is your last chance to buy a raffle ticket to see a Braves game this summer! For only $10 you can buy a raffle to win tickets to a game on May 15, June 5 or June 26! Please support your Relay for Life team! The drawing for our winners will be Friday, May 8th! Don't miss out!

 

Kindergarten Sneak a Peek

  Thursday, May 7th from 9:00-10:30. 

If you or someone you know is a parent of a rising Kindergartner, please be sure to join us for the Kindergarten Sneak a Peek. The student will get a taste of what his/her new school will be like while parents will be given the opportunity to learn more about Sope Creek and all it has to offer.

 Friday, May 8th is Field Day.

The week of May 4th - 8th is "Eat Your Fruits and Veggies Week" at Sope Creek.  Students will have an opportunity to track their fruit and vegetable intake and enter the results into a drawing for a special prize.  One winner per grade level will be announced on Monday, May 11th.  During the week of May 4th - 8th, students should track their fruit and veggie consumption.  Tracking forms are available on both the Sope Creek blog and the Sope Creek PTA blog.  All forms should be turned into the front office on the morning of Monday, May 11th.  Please contact Natalie Rogers, fluffyjune@yahoo.com or Robin Zeldin, rrzeldin@aol.com with any questions.

The Sope Creek Community Outreach PTA Committee is currently taking applications for the Dr. Karen Looft Memorial Scholarship.  Any Walton or Wheeler graduating senior who is also a Sope Creek alumni is eligible to receive this award.  Additional details as well as the application are available on the following site:  http://sopecreeklibrary.typepad.com/pta_events/2008/03/community-outre.html.  The due date is May 15th.

The Braves Raffle for Relay for Life:

Raffle tickets for the Braves game are on sale now through May 8th. For $10 a raffle ticket you have the chance to win 4 tickets to see the Red Sox or the Brewers or 2 tickets to see the Diamondbacks. For $25, you can get one raffle per game! Please check the Sope Creek Blog for more information or stop by the front office for an order form. The drawing will be held on May 8th, so purchase your raffle tickets today! Thanks for support SC's Relay for Life Team.

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APRIL 27 – MAY 1 EVENTS

Monday: Last day of CRCT’s for 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th grades

Tuesday:

BOX TOPS DUE

SOPE CREEK FAMILY BRAVES NIGHT!  Our Sope Creek Chorus has been selected to sing The National Anthem. 

Wednesday:

LAST BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB

Thursday:

PTA OFFICER ELECTIONS 8am in the café

Kindergarten Program 8:10am in the café

Friday:

Career Day

Presale Packets Due

CALENDAR UPDATES:

As the year has progressed, we have had to make some changes to the published PTA Calendar.  Please make the following revisions:

Thursday, May 7th:  Kindergarten Sneak-a-Peek

Friday, May 8th:  Field Day   |   Rain Date:  Wednesday, May 13th

Awards Days:

Thursday, May 14th:  1st & 2nd Grades

Monday, May 18th:  3rd & 4th Grades

Wednesday, May 20th:  5th Grade

We have officially started the 4th 9 weeks here at Sope Creek! I can't believe the year has gone by so quickly. As we embark on our last quarter together your children will be learning many new things.  Here's what's in store...

Reading

Phonics/Word Identification IV

·         Working With Parts of Words 

·         Review and reinforce the elements from previous nine weeks

·         Application

·         Recognizes, reads, and writes words and word parts

·         Applies learned phonics skills when reading and writing

Vocabulary Development IV 

·         Word Usage

·         Reads a variety of texts and uses new words in oral and written language

·         Applies the appropriate use of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms

·         Begins to use grade appropriate words with multiple meaning when communicating (reading and writing)

·         Word Identification

·         Recognizes homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms

·         Uses context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words

Comprehension IV:

·         Reading Strategies

·         Review and reinforce the elements from the previous nine weeks

·         Recognizes the author’s purpose

·         Text Features

·         Review and reinforce the elements from the previous nine weeks

Writing

Response to Literature

·         Writing Process

·         Prewrites to generate ideas

·         Uses ideas to produce a rough draft

·         Rereads writing

·         Revises to add details

·         Edits to make corrections

·         Content

·         Writes text of appropriate length

·         Organizes writing (has a plan)

·         Writes a response to literature that demonstrates understanding of the text and expresses and supports an opinion

·         Writes variations of text read

·         Connects the text to own ideas and life

·         Writes in first person (opinion)

·         Conventions

·         All conventions previously introduced

Math

Length, Weight, and Capacity

·         Directly compare the length, weight, and capacity of two or more concrete objects

·         Estimate and measure using a non-standard unit that is smaller than the object to be measured

·         Measure with a tool by creating a “ruled” stick, tape, or container by marking off ten segments of the repeated single unit

Numbers to 100

·         Represent numbers less than 100 using models, diagrams, and number sentences

·         Represent numbers larger than 10 in terms of tens and ones using counters and pictures

·         Correctly count and represent the number of objects in a set using numerals

·         Understand the magnitude and order of numbers up to 100 by making ordered

·         sequences and representing them on a number line

·         Determine to which multiple of ten a given number is nearest using tools such

·         as a sequential number line or hundreds chart to assist in estimating

·         Represent collections of less than 30 objects with 2-digit numbers and 

·         understand  the meaning of place value

·         Use informal strategies to share objects equally between two to five people

·         Build number patterns, including even and odd using concrete representations

·         Create and interpret charts using tally marks and bar graphs

·         Use numbers to 100 to organize and record data using tally marks and bar graphs

3-Digit Addition and Subtraction

·         Identify one more/less than, 10 more/less than a given number

·         Skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s forward and backward to 100

·         Know the single-digit facts to 18 and corresponding subtraction facts

·         Apply addition and subtraction to two-digit numbers without regrouping

·         Solve and create word problems involving addition and subtraction to 100 without regrouping

·         Compare sets using the terms greater than, less than and equal to

·         Make fair trades with combinations of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters

·         Make fair trades with combinations of bills

·         Count out a combination of coins needed to purchase items less than a dollar

·         Count out a combination of bills needed to purchase items less than twenty dollars

Social Studies

Economic Understandings

·         The student will explain that because of scarcity, people must make choices and incur opportunity costs.

·         The student will identify ways in which goods and services are allocated (by price; majority rule; contests; force; sharing; lottery; command; first-come, first-served; personal characteristics; and others).

·         The student will explain that people usually use money to obtain the goods and services they want and explain how money makes trade easier than barter.

·         The student will describe the costs and benefits of personal spending

Science

Seasonal Changes -  

·         Summer

·         Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·         Match the tree to the season.

·         Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year.

·         Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

·         Fall

·         Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·         Match the tree to the season.

·         Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·         Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

·         Winter

·         Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·         Match the tree to the season.

·         Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·         Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

·         Spring

·         Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·         Match the tree to the season.

·         Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·         Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

Life Cycles 

• Life Cycles of Animals

·         Observe and record the sequences of different lifecycles.

·         Predict the next stage of development.

·         Match the offspring to their parent. 

• Life Cycle of a Plant

·         Identify plant parts and explain their function to the development of the plant.

·         Compare plants grown with all necessary resources with plants deprived of necessary nutrients.

·         Observe and record changes in the lifecycle of a plant.

·         Explain how plants and animals depend on each other.

• Fungi

·         What makes fungi living organisms?

·         Compare fungi to plants.

 

Updates, Reminders and PTA News:

ART DAY WAS INCREDIBLE! Thank you to our Art Day Committee for giving us another incredible day!  What a wonderful way to kick off Spring!

Quack Quack! They’re Back!  Duck Sale Tuesday 3/31 for K, 1 and 2 & Duck Sale Wed 4/1 for 3, 4 and 5

PRESALE/DIRECTORY PACKETS:   Volunteers needed to put together the directory forms and the pre-sale forms on Tuesday, March 31st starting at 9am in the Media Center.

SPIRIT DAY – Friday April 3 – wear your favorite Sope Creek t-shirt!

WWF Presents: Ten Things to Do in the Dark - Wondering what to do when the lights go out for Earth Hour? There are ten fun ideas to help you, your family and your friends make a change and make a difference on March 28 in the PTA Environmental Education Committee blog:  http://sopecreeklibrary.typepad.com/pta_events/2008/03/environmental-e.html

FOUNDATION SOCIABLES NEWS:  On Tuesday, April 14th Sope Creek will be holding their yearly Football Sociable.  It will be right after school til 4:30 with Walton's own Coach Rocky Hidalgo!  $35 per child 2nd grade thru 5th grades.  Kids will be given a tee shirt, sandwich, snacks and drinks and a few other goodies.  Hosts:  Nancy Garfinkel (garfinks@msn.com), Maureen Lamar(mlamar@na.ko.com), Beth Wiesner  (2m3@bellsouth.net),Lee Oesterling (lee@oesterling.com) You can email us to sign your child/children up. Also, send the check with your child/children's name on the check and mark the envelope Football Sociable. Their will be a basket in the front office.

Don't miss the chance to sign up for Drama Camp!  Info is on the blog and a flyer will come home with all 2nd - 4th grade students.

Got Milk?  The PTA Health and Nutrition Committee needs volunteers to help with their "Got Milk?" campaign going on all next week (3/23 - 3/27).  They need people during lunch to randomly hand out pencils and stickers to children who are drinking either milk or soy milk.  If you are available to help, or would like more information, please contact Robin Zeldin, rrzeldin@aol.com. 

March 23^rd- March 27^th

 

Monday, March 23rd - The PTA Health and Nutrition Committee is hosting a Lunch and Learn from 11am - 12pm in the Media Center. The topic is "Litterless Lunches".  Please come to learn how to create lunches that are nutritious, delicious and eco-friendly. Please contact Natalie Rogers, fluffyjune@yahoo.com, with any questions.

Tuesday, March 24th - Box Tops due.  This is a fun and easy way to raise money for Sope Creek...one dime at a time!

 

Wednesday, March 25th - Birthday Book Club will be held at 7:20am in the Media Center.

 

Quack, quack the ducks are back!  Mark your calendars.  The Kids Care Club will once again be selling those cute rubber ducks.  They will be available for purchase on Tuesday, March 31st at 7:20am for grades K through 2, and Wednesday, April 1st at 7:20am for grades 3 through 5.

 I want to thank Carla Gignilliat and Christy Spurlin for all of their hard work and creativity in putting together such an amazing basket for the Fun Run auction! A special thanks to those who donated. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!