School Spirit Week

****Four Star Celebration****

January 30^th-February 3^rd

Monday – Be a proud bulldog ….wear Brownsburg attire

Tuesday- Dress like Dr. Snapp, our superintendent

Wednesday – Dress like a Super Hero

Thursday – Dress like a Super Star

Friday – Wear your favorite Super Bowl jersey

Recycling Service Project

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Brown fourth and fifth grade students will once again collect shoes in conjunction with the Hendricks County Solid Waste Management District’s “Recycle Heart and Sole” shoe recycling program. We are planning to collect used shoes for reuse February 6 through February 10.

We hope to keep worn shoes out of our landfills, while at the same time, helping those that are less fortunate. Last year, along with other schools in the surrounding area, we collected about 7,000 pairs of shoes. We hope to collect even more this year.

Just have your child bring in used shoes placing them in the shoe collection containers in front of the main office. It’s just that easy. The fourth and fifth grade students will do the rest.

Thank you for helping the fourth and fifth grade Brown students with their service learning project.

Fourth and Fifth Grade Team

Our Week....and next week:)

Writing: This week we have been focusing on prewriting. During ISTEP the kids will have a 55 minute writing block where they are given a prompt to write to and it is so important for the kids to understand the value of prewriting to organize their thoughts. Next week, we will be working on what do we do after the prewrite. The best thing you can do for your child to help them prepare for this is look over any of their writing that comes home and discuss with them wishes and stars. Where could they have been stronger in their writing piece? Did they do any editing before turning it in? Is it on topic? Did it make sense and engage the reader? These are just a few guiding ????s
Spelling: This week our pattern was double consonants. We have been told that many of the questions on IREAD will be skills like beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a word so please work with your child on their spelling lists by focusing on the sound pattern of the week.
Science: Next week we will do a mini animal research project. This will be an in class question and answer activity. Many of the kids will want to research at home and this is wonderful. They will just need to bring in any of their research to school. Not required!

Important Dates

Math Test next Friday for Unit 7. Please practice multiplication with your child.

Spelling Test – Thursday and Reading Test Friday

IREAD state testing will be March 19^th.

4H presentation during specials next Friday.

Final round of acuity before ISTEP will be math- Wednesday, Feb. 8^th and reading – Wednesday, Feb. 15^th.

Brown Bonanza is Friday, Feb. 17^th. More information to come.

Star Student This Week

Hailey is our star this week. She showed last week that working hard can pay off when it comes to grades! She also displayed diligence when she turned in all her work and was on best behavior! I'm proud of your efforts Hailey!!

Star Student

Our star student this week is Ayden Gilliam. He has been working extra hard to catch up after being sick and he's also working hard at being a leader and making good choices! Keep up the good work Ayden!

December Top Readers

Congratulations go to our top 3 at home readers. In first place was Grace with 1,410 minutes. Coming in second and third was Jenna and Hailey with 600 minutes. Great job ladies!
As a class, the students read 8,342 minutes at home!