Polar Express day

Polar Express Day 2018

• Reading Challenge papers due back January 3rd for a chance to win hot coco and a movie with Mr. Ebert
• Yoga Permission Forms were emailed by Mr. Ebert on 12/20/18. If your child wants to participate in yoga once per week during recess time, sign and return the form. 
• Writing Journals were sent home today! Some kids have a few pages left to write in at home! We will be getting new journals in January for the rest of the school year!
• Happy Break, see the kids on Thursday, January 3rd, 2019!

Christmas Time & PJ Day!

Christmas Concert 2018

• The kids did a fantastic job singing at their concert on Wednesday! It was adorable and fun to see them all dressed up for their performance.
• This week in reading, we focused on the long i & silent e, as in pine, ride, smile, and white. We learned to mark up the words and read them in stories and poems. We also read a few plays with character parts and will continue to practice these story plays into next week. 
• In math, we completed topic 5 (finding missing addends) and moved onto Topic 6: Graphing Data. Today we created tally charts and learned to compare information using those charts. 
• Coming up next week:
• Monday and Tuesday are normal days for first grade. 
• Wednesday December 19th- Polar Express Day, first grade only. We will continue our tradition of wearing pajamas, slippers, drinking hot coco, and watching the movie The Polar Express. We also have Innovation Room with Mrs. Brady and guidance with Mrs. Speier. We will try to fit everything in!!
• Thursday- December 20th- Another Pajama Day for the whole school. We have our class party at 9:45, and a school wide movie in the gym at 1:30. We will finish the day with our Redwood Pride assembly. 
• No School December 21-January 2, 2019. School will resume on Thursday, January 3rd, 2019. 

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

~Mrs. Kozar

Hour of Code & Snowflake Shop Info

The pictures above show our students in the Innovation Room this week with Mrs. Brady. The children learned basic coding skills and practiced coding on the website "Hour of Code Angry Birds." They were thrilled to learn and to celebrate their successes in each level of coding! Click the link if your child would like to continue Angry Bird coding at home! https://studio.code.org/hoc/1

This week in reading our big question was: How can you find your way around? The answer is maps! We read stories that focused on using maps to find places in towns, parks, treasure islands, in the United States and around the World. We continued to learn digraphs (wh, sh, th, ch, ck, ph, kn) and are practicing the HFWords: around, by, many, place, walk. Remember, all of these books and phonics games can be found on the Wonder's Website! WONDERS LINK Your child's password is on the back of the take home folders.

In math, we began Topic 5: Working with Addition and Subtraction Equations. We're learning to find missing addends (4 + __ = 9), and balancing equations (3+5 = 6+__ ). We've also been proving if equations are true or false (6+3=10-4... false). All of these concepts can be tricky for students to learn the steps to solve. See if your child can solve a few math problems you write down.

• December 3 & 10- We have MAPS testing on 12/ 3 & 12/10 for math and reading. Make sure your child goes to bed early and gets a good night's sleep on Sundays. We don't stress about MAPS testing in first grade, we just "Always try our best!"
• December 5- Snowflake Shop is next week on Wednesday, December 5th. Our class shops at 9:00 am. If your child is participating, please bring cash, a list of people to shop for, and the filled out labels.  The presents will be wrapped and taken home at the end of the day!
• December 12- Holiday Concert 12:30
• December 19- Polar Express Day in First Grade- Wear your pajamas, pack your slippers. We will change into slippers at school and do a few activities centered around The Polar Express.
• December 20- Whole school Pajama Day- Wear your pajamas, pack your slippers for day 2! Class party and movie in gym.
• Redwood Eagle calendars are on sale and can be purchased with check or cash for $15. Flyers will be sent home in the next few days for students to order and we will send the calendars home with your child. You can also stop in the office to purchase starting Friday, November 30, 2018. The calendar features 13 pictures taken of the bald eagles that have made Redwood Elementary School in Avon Lake their home. Money collected for the calendars will be put towards the educational resources to promote the Redwood bald eagles. The pictures were taken by local photographers who visited the eagle nest which is on the school grounds. The school received more than 120 submissions for the calendar. A committee selected the 13 images and also the names for the pages. The calendar also includes a timeline of the eagles from building the nest, to laying eggs and having eaglets.

Pilgrim Buddies

We made pilgrim hats with our third grade buddies! Happy Thanksgiving!

• Today in reading, we began Unit 2 Week 4 of Wonders: Let's Help. Our Essential question is: How do people help out in the community? We read the story Thump Thump Helps Out and practiced the digraphs th, sh, ch, ck, wh, ph, and kn. We are working on identifying the characters, setting, and event on each page of the story. 
• Our new HFWords are all, call, day, her, want
• In math, we are using addition to subtract (if you know 4+5=9, then you know 9-4=5) and solving subtraction story problems by drawing pictures & models, using number lines, and brain power. We played Around the World to help with fact fluency. 
• Snowflake Shop is December 5th. Our class shops at 9:00am. If your child is participating, please send back the zip lock bag with cash, a list of people to shop for, and the labels filled out. The children will shop and bring home wrapped gifts! No checks please.

Dates:

• No School November 21-25th for Thanksgiving Break
• Nov. 26- Reflections Art Projects due to school with completed entry forms
• December 5- Snowflake shop
• First grade's Holiday Program will be December 12th from 12:30-1:00 PM in Redwood's gym. Come early for parking :)

RSVP Muffins with Mom

• This week, we began a new topic in reading: Where do animals live together? We read Babies in the Bayou, The Busy Pond, The Best Spot in the Forest, and Meet the Meerkat. We focused on finding the main idea and details in these stories. 
• Our new HFWords are: eat, no, of, under, who.
• We learned the suffix -ing, as in jumping and playing. We continue to work with blends and glued sounds (-ink, -ank, onk, -unk, -ing, -ang, -ong, ung, am, an, all)
• In math, we learned subtraction on the number line and fact families. Ask your child if they can write a fact family for 4,5 and 9.
• We have a student from ALHS coming to our room in the afternoons on Thursdays and Fridays as part of the Teacher Education Exploration Program. Her name is Ms. Elizabeth and she will be learning to become a teacher in our room for the next 6 weeks. 
• RSVP to Muffins with  Mom on 11/14 or 11/15 using the link below: 
•  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/108fEfTTj07JB6OHRi2czEhg4iHkAY_Uu0hhI5s-SvIY/edit
• The Scholastic Book Fair will be open next week Nov. 12-15 & during muffins with mom
• M&Tu- 3:30-5:30 pm
• Wed 8-9 am, 3:30-5:30pm
• Th- 8-9 am, 3:30-6:30pm
• No School November 21-25th for Thanksgiving Break
• First grade's Holiday Program will be December 12th from 12:30-1:00 PM in Redwood's gym. Come early for parking :)

November 2nd

Halloween 2018

• This week in reading, we are exploring the essential questions: What buildings do you know? What are they made of? We read the story Cubs in a Hut and The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud to learn how different homes can be built. We reviewed nouns (person, place, thing) and continue to explore the characters, setting, and events of stories. 
• With 46 days of school, we started quarter 2! Report cards will be coming home next Wednesday and will include a new list of High Frequency Words to learn for Quarter 2. Please work with your child to learn these words! Make it fun by having word hunts in the house or making a goal to learn all words each week and highlighting the words they know from the list. 
• We are reviewing Topic 3 in math: Using strategies to solve addition facts to 20 and will quiz Topic 3 next week.
• Link to volunteer during scholastic book fair preview Friday, Nov. 9th: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0948AFA822A5F94-redwood
• Coming up:
• 11/12-11/16- Scholastic Book Fair 
• 11/14- Muffins with Mom 8 am- last names A-M 
• 11/15- Muffins with Mom 8 am- last names N-Z 
• 11/21-25- Thanksgiving Break
• 11/26- Reflections Art Projects Due date (optional, forms came home today)

Halloween Week!

• Halloween Info- The children should wear their Halloween costumes to school on Wednesday, October 31st and pack a change of clothes in their book bags. Please leave toy weapons at home. You are invited to watch the Redwood Parade which will begin a little after 9:00 AM! After the parade, we will have our class party from about 9:30-10:30, depending on how long the parade lasts. 
• We had a great time at our field trip last week learning about needs of living things. The children planted a bean plant and we will watch it grow in the classroom.
• Tonight, Tuesday, October 29th is MARCO'S Pizza night. We decorated out boxes and they are ready for pizza delivery tonight!
• November 2nd is picture retake day! Forms were sent home last week, if interested. 
• 11/12-11/16- Scholastic Book Fair
• 11/14- Muffins with Mom 8 am- last names A-M
• 11/15- Muffins with Mom 8 am- last names N-Z
• 11/21-25- Thanksgiving Break

On Friday, our class read the reader's theater "The Hare and the Tortoise" to kindergarten classes.

• In reading, we wrapped up Unit 1 in Wonders, and began Unit 2: My Community. The kids were word detectives and used their magnifying glasses to fins words with blends and the suffix -s. We learned the new HFWords: again, help, new, there, use
• In phonics, we continue to work with blends and just learned the new suffix -ed. The suffix -ed can make 3 sounds:
• d as in played
• t as in walked
• ed as in printed
• For math this week we used doubles facts to solve doubles +1 and doubles +2. We also drew open number lines to help us add two numbers. 
• In our writing journals we wrote about which color apple is our favorite and why. We added details to our topic sentences about apples. Continue to practice writing at home with neat handwriting, capitals, and periods. 
• If you have any thin wire hangers to donate, please send them in by Friday, October 26th for a project we are doing in the innovation room. The wire hangers usually come with dry cleaning clothes and are easy to bend. Thank you for your help!
• Coming up:
• 10/24- ALPL Field Trip
• 10/29- No School
• 10/31- Halloween Parade 9:00 AM. Please send kids to school wearing their costumes with a change of clothes underneath or in their book bags. Masks should be kept in book bags until they arrive at school. Please do not send any toy weapons or props larger than your child! thank you :) We will parade and party, and then change out of our costumes before recess & lunch. 

Pumpkin Festival Volunteers

This week in science we used our knowledge of living and nonliving things to observe and reason with gummy worms and real earthworms! The kids used magnifying glasses to observe their worms and record their findings.

In phonics, our essential questions was How does your body move? We read Move and Grin, Move It!, and Ready, Set, Move to practice blends and the high frequency words: jump, move, run, two

In math, we solved word problems by drawing pictures, models, or using a number line. We took a quiz on Topic 2, and will begin Topic 3 next week: Addition Facts to 20.

In writing, we learned the bacis parts of a paragraph: topic sentence, details, closing sentence. We practiced with a topic sentence and closing sentence given, the children were asked to fill in their own details about what they play with their friends.

It was great to meet with everyone at conferences! Thank you for stopping in!

Coming Up:

• Wednesday October 17th is WOW walk. Have your child wear bright colors to school!
• We will be gone on our field trip for the 10/24 WOW at the library.
• I'm looking for 1 more volunteer for our field trip to Avon Lake Public Library on October 24th from 1-2:15 pm. Please email me if you're interested. I will email back a confirmation. 
• Pumpkin Festival Volunteers needed! Please click the link if you are interested in volunteering your time or items for the Pumpkin Festival. Pumpkin Festival Volunteers: Pumpkin Festival 2018
• Pumpkin Festival Pre-Order Forms are due 10/17 if interested
• Stoller Fundraiser Order forms are due October 24, if participating.

Week of October 1st

• HFW to know: jump, move, run, two
• Conference signups close October 10th. Please click the link, if you haven't already:  http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Redwood_Elementary
• I'm looking for 5 volunteers to attend our field trip to Avon Lake Public Library on October 24th from 1-2:15 pm. If you are interested, please email me at kimberly.kozar@avonlakecityschools.org I can take the first 5 volunteers that email and I will email you back with a confirmation that we will be expecting you! Thank you:)
• Author Assembly Book Order forms Due: October 9
• Save the Date: Holiday Concert December 12th: 12:30-1:00pm first grade only
• Drawing/ Coloring Contest for "Dress Up Mrs. Orr for Halloween" is due 10/15
• Important Dates:
• Oct. 11- Conferences, No School
• Oct 12- No School: NEOEA Day
• Oct 20- Pumpkin Festival @ Redwood 
• Oct 24- ALPL Field Trip 1:00pm
• Oct 26- End 1st Quarter
• Oct 29- No School: Staff Professional Development day
• Oct 31- Halloween Parade 9 AM, class party
• Walk on Wednesday Theme Days: (Students Walk with class):
•  2:30PM Week 2 Oct 10th – Wacky Hats (or just a hat)
• 10:00AM - Week 3 Oct 17th – Bright Colors (wear your brightest colors)
•  1:30PM Week 4 Oct 24th – Invite a friend – we will be on our ALPL Field Trip and won't be participating, but that's okay :)
•  9:05AM Week 5 Oct 31st – Halloween Parade

Jersey Day, Nature Hunt & Scaredy Squirrel... OH MY!

Jersey Day

Living and Nonliving Nature Hunt with Buddies

• Phonics: We learned that two consonants that make 2 separate sounds are called blends. Examples are: fl, cr, bl, st, and many more! Here's a link to the blend video we watched if your student wants to watch it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgJnpE7IL8
• HFW: good, come, pull, be
• Math: In topic 2 were learning to count forward on a number line, doubles (2+2, 5+5), near doubles (if 2+2=4, then 2+3=5), and facts on a ten frame. 
• Writing: We wrote about our pets or if we could get a pet what it would be. The kids had to include what their pet eats, what they do with their pet, a name, and what it looks like.
• Science: We went on a nature hunt with our 3rd grade buddies to observe, draw, and label 3 living & 3 nonliving things outside.
• Reading: We focused on "What makes a pet special?" We read A Pig for Cliff, Flip, and  What Pets Need. We read Scaredy Squirrel and learned all about the author Melanie Watt. 
• Innovation Room: We even went to the Innovation Room and pretended we were Scaredy Squirrels. Our quest was to tape tubes to the wall in a zig-zag pattern so that the acorns would roll from the top tube, through the middle tubes, and land in a basket. This took TEAMWORK, IDEAS,  PERSISTENCE, TRIAL and ERROR, and many many TRIES to complete the task! Check it out below:

Important Dates:

• Oct. 11- Conferences
• Oct 12- No School: NEOEA Day
• Oct 20- Pumpkin Festival @ Redwood- more info coming home soon
• Oct 24- ALPL Field Trip 1:00pm
• Oct 26- End 1st Quarter
• Oct 29- No School: Staff Professional Development day
• Oct 31- Halloween Parade 9 AM, class party

Walk on Wednesday Theme Days: (Students Walk with class):

o   9:05AM Week 1 Oct. 3^rd – Cleveland Pride, AL Pride, etc.

o   2:30PM Week 2 Oct 10^th – Wacky Hats (or just a hat)

o   10:00AM - Week 3 Oct 17^th – Bright Colors (wear your brightest colors)

o   1:30PM Week 4 Oct 24^th – Invite a friend – we will be on our ALPL Field Trip, but that's okay :)

o   9:05AM Week 5 Oct 31^st – Halloween Parade

Paper Towel Tubes Needed!

Omega Man came to our school to teach us to be kind, be caring, be respectful, to work hard, not give up, and to be a hard worker. He motivated us to be Dream Makers, not dream breakers. 

• Our class is going to visit the Innovation Room to build a special activity, so we are in need of EMPTY paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes. If you have any to donate, please send in the empty tubes by September 28th.
• This week's High Frequency words: down, out, up, very
• Reading- Big Question: What is it like where you live? We read Go, Pip!, I Live Here, and Six Kids, and City Mouse Country Mouse to help us learn and compare city life to country life. We discussed schools, playgrounds, apartments, traffic, stores, and farms. The kids crated their own flip books with pictures and labels of places we can find in our suburb, Avon Lake. We are learning fiction vs. nonfiction, realistic fiction, and fables.
• Writing- We wrote about Omega Man in our journals and wrote the topic sentence together. We are learning that every paragraph begins with a topic sentence to introduce the main idea of our writing. We continue to practice capitals, periods, neat handwriting, and the correct spelling of High Frequency words using the word wall.
• Phonics- bonus letters: l,f,s,z,t and mark with a *  Example: puff*, hill*, buzz*
• Math- We finished Topic 1: Solve Addition and Subtraction Problems to 10, and took the quiz. We will move onto Topic 2: Fluently Add and Subtract within 10.

• Conferences are Thursday October 11th 7:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Our sign up for Redwood Parent-Teacher Conferences is online! Online Sign-up's start FRIDAY 9/21 at 9AM! Simply go to http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Redwood_Elementary and you will be able to sign up for a time slot for one or all of your children that attend Redwood. The website will open for live sign-up at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, September 21st and will close, Wednesday October 10, 2018. If you have questions about the sign up process please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher. If you do not have internet access, please send a note to your child’s teacher and a time will be scheduled for you. There is NO SCHOOL for students on Thursday October 11 and Friday October 12, 2018.
• Spirit week is 9/24-9/28. 
• 9/24 Mon.- Workout Gear 
• 9/25 Tues. -Jersey Day
• 9/26 Wed-picture day
• 9/27 Th- Throwback Thursday
• 9/28 Fri- Maroon and Gold
• Redwood students are welcome to walk in the homecoming parade with Redwood's float. Bring a bag of candy and meet at Blesser Park @ 10:00am.

• 9/14- Redwood Spirit Wear order forms due
• 9/26- Picture Day- Bring in picture forms or order online
• 9/24-9/28 Spirit Week, see picture above 
• 9/29- Homecoming Parade

This week in:

Reading: Our essential question was "What do you do at your school?" We read the stories Jack Can, Nat and Sam, and The Rules at School to compare other schools with ours. Vocabulary words: recognize, common, subjects, learn, object

Phonics: We focused on the sound of short a, as in apple, and practiced tapping out 3 letter words with short a. We used magnet boards to build the words, dry erase boards to write the words, and finished by working with the poem "Fat Cat."

High Frequency Words to Know: what, school, not, does

Math: We continue to explore part-part-whole models, comparing how many more & how many less, representing story problems with pictures, and working with math counters to add two parts of an equation. Next week we will finish Topic 1 and quiz.

Class Party Volunteers

  

  

We had an unexpected, short 2 day week but still worked hard! We reviewed the following High Frequency Words: little, like, see, has, look, me 
We practiced finding equations for story problems using the part-part-whole model with picnic plates and dry erase markers. We read a Scholastic News Magazine and watched a video about being polite and using manners in school. At the end of the day, our class was able to login to their Chromebooks and play ABCya's Sight Word Bingo!

Reminders:

• Here is the link for the Head room parent sign ups and class parties: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0948AFA822A5FE3-head1

• Wed. Sept 12- PTA meeting 7pm
  
• Picture Day: Wednesday Sept. 26- Order online or send in the paper form if you wish to order pictures!

Weekly Update

This week in class we discussed how each of us are all different in very special ways by reading the  book Elmer. Then, we created our own colorful Elmer Elephants for the hallway and wrote what makes each of us one of a kind! We continue to practice neat handwriting by using the sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line correctly.

In math this week, we began Topic 1: Solving Addition and Subtraction Problems to 10. Our focus for lesson 1 & 2 was creating part-part-whole robots. See if your child can draw a part-part-whole robot for you, explain it, and write a matching number equation.

In reading, we are reviewing letter sounds, high frequency words from kindergarten, tapping out 3 letter words, and reading simple books. Be sure your child collects all of the paper books that come home in a Ziplock bag. Pull them out to read on a rainy day, a car trip, or for practice anytime!

High Frequency Words from this week: little, where, play, my, here, the, look, favorite, this, we

Reminders:

• No School Monday, September 3rd- Labor Day
• Highlighter on the corner of math papers means it is homework, and due Fridays. 
• First grade boys had a 5 minute boy scout information meeting today and will bring home a flyer with more info to join.
• Indian Princess and Indian Guides flyer came home earlier this week, if you're interested.

First Week!

We had a great week in room 1! I have learned so much about my new students and I'm looking forward to getting to know each child better as the year progresses. This week we took the time to learn about our classmates by creating an All About Me foldable, which is displayed in the hallway for everyone to see. We learned the rules of our classroom and the rules to follow during recess and lunch. We've been reading stories about the first day of school that helped us discuss positive friendship traits and feelings.  After reading Billy the Bully, we created a class poster called Heart Smart. We say "Before you speak, think and be smart. It's hard to fix a wrinkled heart!" Ask your child if they can explain what happened in the story and talk about the wrinkled heart poster. In our language arts curriculum, called Wonders, we read our first two stories: Elephants and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Your child should be able to read the following words we reviewed this week: he, can, I, like, do, to, you.

A few reminders:

• Remember to subscribe & confirm your email to receive automatic updates from this blog. 
• Every Friday, a Reading Journal will come home with a new entry that we worked on all week. Check the blue paper inside for directions to complete each weekend.
• If you wish to order books from the scholastic magazine, the due date for ordering is August 31. You can order online using our class code GZDXL or by sending in the order form and a check. The magazine was included in the folder from Open House. Here's the link https://clubs.scholastic.com/home Click on "parents" to get started.
• Friday, August 31st, bring in a canned food for the SOUPer Bowl. Avon Lake will be having a non-perishable item drive for the Souper Bowl Competition with Avon. Students can wear a hat if they bring in a non-perishable item to donate.

Welcome to First Grade!

Welcome to first grade! My name is Kim Kozar and I am looking forward to starting my 10th year at Redwood Elementary.  I am eager to meet my new class on our first day of school-August 22nd! It's going to be a wonderful year filled with great accomplishments and amazing memories.

Students and Parents are invited to join me for Open House @ Redwood on August 20th anytime between 4:30 and 6:30 PM in room 1. Please have your child bring his or her supplies this night and the student info sheet I sent home through the mail. Your child will be able to see the classroom, meet classmates, and sort supplies to help make your child's first day run smoothly.

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Please use this blog to find more information about the events and expectations of first grade. The tabs at the top contain a lot of details on what we're learning, links to important websites, and current academic ideas your child should know.

I am excited to start the school year and meet my new students in just 2 weeks!
~ Mrs. Kozar

8 Days Until Summer!

Thank you for stopping by our book report night to see what first grade baked up! The children did a fantastic job on their book reports and used the skills they learned all year to present their best work!

• May 21-25 is Bike to School Week. As part of the health and wellness initiative, all of the elementary schools in Avon Lake will be participating in Bike to School Week again this year from May 21st through May 25th. All students are encouraged to ride their bikes to school. There will be a designated parking area for the bikes around our bike rack next to the flag pole. Please go over bike safety rules with your child. Please note: Students in grades K-2 should not ride alone to school, please ensure they have a responsible adult or group to ride with. Remember…be safe and wear your helmet!
• May 22- Silly Hat or Crazy Hair Day- Bring in a $1 donation for Imagination Library
• May 25- Field Day! Wear tennis shoes and dress for the weather. Our time is 12:50-2:50 pm. There is also a PTA picnic @ 11:30 to thank PTA members and helpers :)
• May 28- No School, Memorial Day
• May 31- Last Day of School, Report Cards home

May News

Senator Gayle Manning Presents Redwood with Award

for Disability Awareness Week

• Imagination Library Fundraiser is a city wide fundraiser to help young children receive books to promote early literacy learning.  The Avon Lake Public Library and about 8 day cares/preschools are participating.  The goal of the fundraiser is to raise $1,000 with each elementary building raising at least $100 by May 31st.
• Thank you for returning the West Side Market field trip forms. I will put together groups of students & chaperones and send home final details/ times. Chaperones will lead a short scavenger hunt at the market while buying 1 want and 1 need (no refrigerated items). 
• Book Report Night- Wednesday May 16th @ 6:00 pm. Come to Redwood to see our first grade book reports! Each student has chosen their own book to read and complete a report on in class. We are creating paper cakes to present to you on this special night. Please have your child bring in an apron (if you have one) to wear. No need to buy one, it's just an extra prop. Stay for a bit to walk around the gym and cafeteria to check out our hard work!
• Eagle Naming Contest- Return to school by May 18. We have 3 eaglets!
• Spring Pictures- If you purchase package, keep the pictures! If you do not want to purchase the pictures, return them back to school at no charge. 
• If your child is absent, please remember to call the attendance line and not Redwood's main office number. The ATTENDANCE LINE is: 930-8291.

Junior Achievement

Mr. Kos from Junior Achievement

Our first week back from break was a busy one! Mr. Kos from Junior Achievement came into our class to teach us about wants, needs, our community, businesses, good, services, and diplomas. The children had the chance to be entrepreneurs by inventing their own businesses with friends. We will have a chance to practice our new vocabulary at the West Side Market in May... More information coming soon. 

• BW3 reading cards came home this week. Just have your child read 10 books or chapters and initial the card. Take it to BW# for the incentive!
• Pennies for Patients has begun at Redwood for  Next week only, April 16-20.  Students can bring in coins in their penny bank provided. All donations 
• It’s time for the annual Redwood Elementary Library Fundraiser. The Barnes and Noble Bookfair is this weekend at Crocker Park.  This event is Sunday, April 15^th. Please make sure to use the B & N voucher if making a purchase which is good in the store on the 14th and 15th. Online sales are good 4-15/19. The ID#12319281 needs to be on the receipt so that the school will get credit. Buffalo Wild Wings in Avon Lake is also participating. Thank you so much for your support.
• This week in reading our big queston was "What sounds can you hear? How are they made?" We read the stories Now, What's That Sound?, Whistle for Willie, and What's That Sound? We practiced using the phonics sounds ou & ow as in OUCH!
• In math, we finished our measuring unit and even practiced measuring using inches. 
• Next Week: 
• Picture Day- April 18
• Spring Fling with Mom- 6:30-8:00pm
• Pennies for Patients

Last Week of School Before Spring Break

Disability Awareness Week

• Mom and Son Spring Fling Dance
  April 20th from 6:30-8:00 in Redwood gym and cafeteria. $10 check and ticket form due by April 13th. 
• Barnes and Noble Book Fair @ Crocker Park
  Sunday, April 15th from 12-2:30 pm.art work displayed, scavenger hunt, Redwood Choir Performance, and Story time with Curious George. See yellow flyer that came home Friday for more information. 
• Redwood Arts Night Next Week
  Come one, come all to the 3rd annual Redwood Art's Night! On March 28th, from 4-8 pm the halls of Redwood will be transformed into an art gallery, showcasing the talents of every one of our Redwood students. Come and see the amazing artworks that have been created this year. The Redwood Art Club will have 9 pieces of custom painted furniture that will be available for sale in our silent auction. To cap off the evening, the Redwood choir led by Mrs. Orr will provide entertainment with a special concert. Mark your calendars for this fun, festive evening of celebrating the arts at Redwood!
• District Staff basketball game
  On Tuesday, March 27th at 7:15PM at the high School Avon Lake Staff will play basketball. All proceeds go towards Avon Lake student scholarships. Adult tickets are $5 and student tickets are $3.
• Marco's Pizza Box Night
  Boxes are colored and ready for box night Tuesday, March 27. Remember to mention Mrs. Kozar's class online or over the phone so Redwood and our class get's the credit!! We are close to the $10,000 prize!
• In math we concluded our unit on basic fractions. Next week we will review previous skills and when we return from spring break we will finish our last 3 units in math for the year!
• This week in reading we read stories about the sky. We completed planet reports with a partner and practiced phonics skills while reading about astronauts. 

The Mouse and the Motorcycle!

Reading in the Hall for Read Across America Week

The big reveal for The Mouse and the Motorcycle

• This week in reading we read the stories The Lost Button, A Barn Full of Hats, and Sort it Out! We classified objects by size, shape, and color. Our High Frequency words were: four, large, non, only , put, and round. In phonics, we learned the r-control sound "ar" like car and star.
• In math, we continued to explore 2D and 3D shapes. Next week we start parts of shapes and basic fractions. 
• Disability Awareness week will begin the week of 3/19. We will learn about and celebrate people with disabilities to create awareness and acceptance. We will have an assembly, $1 hat day 3/20, meet a famous para Olympian, wear tshirts 3/23 and conclude with an assembly.
• Donuts with Dad at Redwood Elementary! Please RSVP below for Donuts with Dad (or Grandpa, Uncle, brother, etc.) One adult only please. Donuts with Dad is Weds. March 21 from 8am-8:45am AND Thursday March 22 from 8am-8:45am (choose one). Donuts, coffee and milk will be provided. Scholastic Book Fair will be open to purchase books and items from the Spring Book Fair! Please click this link to RSVP: Fill out form