Gym Shoe Rescue - All of this week and the next we will rescue our old or out-grown gym shoes from the landfill. Gym shoes will be collected, here at Prairieview, and given to SCARCE, an organization that is concerned about our environment. They will either send the shoes to Nike to be made into surface or other products, or they will actually be used by people who need them. Please have your child bring in any shoes that might otherwise find their way into your trash can. Thanks for helping our environment. Character Counts!
Family Book Club - Family Book Club is coming up Wednesday, April 29th. It is not to late to read one of the two book choices and participate with us. We would love to have you. It is an experience that many parents have appreciated because they have the opportunity of seeing their child discuss important issues with thoughtfulness and interest.
Small Groups - Reading focuses on 3 main areas during the 3rd to 5th grade years. Fluency, vocabulary and comprehension are the main areas of concentration. We focus on fluency by doing word studies, repeated readings, readers theater and poetry reading. We work on vocabulary both in the stories and poems we read and in our content courses. Comprehension strategies are taught systematically and thoroughly throughout the year. These include predicting, visualizing, connecting, summarizing, inferring and questioning.
