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Volume 5 Issue 3 November 2013

Events and Activities 

Nov. 3-’Fall Back’ 1 Hour Daylight Savings Time Ends

Nov. 5-Election Day Nov. 8-End of 2nd Six Weeks Nov. 11– 2nd Grade Veteran’s

Day Program 1:30 PM

Nov. 12-Booster Club Meeting 4:15 P.M.

in Conference Room

Lil’ Tiger Café Come join us Nov. 21st for Thanksgiving

dinner. A delicious traditional meal of turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce and rolls will be served. Tickets will be $3.00 at the door. Look for

more information to go home in your student’s TIP folder. Lunch schedules are as

follows:

PK PM 11:00-11:30PK AM 11:30-12:00

Kinder 11:05-11:35 Naylor-Moore11:10-11:40 Tomlin-Hurta

11:15-11:45 Kimball-Vinklarek1st Grade 11:35-12:05 Ellis-Blackwell

11:40-12:10 Schobel-Herschap11”15-12:15 Ferrell-Lange

2nd Grade 12:05-12:35 Evanicky-Eickholt12:10-12:40 Natal-Vaclavic

12:15-12:45 Jones– Rios 

News from the Fine Arts Block

PE

We are having fun in P.E. Our activities have included catching and kicking a ball, flag football and running races. Please be sure names are in coats and jackets. Many get left on the playground. If you are missing an item, the Lost and Found is in the cafeteria. Go Tigers!

-Coach Halamicek

ESL

The Latino Family Literacy Project has begun and will go for 10 weeks. Parents meet with Mrs. Sanchez in Room 303 on Fridays from 1:00-3:00 PM.

Library

In the Library, we will be covering Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving. There will be a R.E.D. book distribution this month. Please remember to return all overdue books.

-Mrs. Breeden

Computer Lab

First and Second Graders will begin a recipe keyboarding project. Students may bring a short recipe or choose one in class. They will type the recipes in class. At the end of the project we will have a recipe sampling/tasting!

-Mrs. Zimmerhanzel

Music

I ask that you take time to ask your children to tell you what they’ve been learning in Music. We have been having so much fun keeping a steady beat, dancing, singing, and playing instruments. This month, 2nd grade will be having their annual Veteran’s Day Program! You are invited to come and join us as we celebrate and say thank you to all who have/are serving our country. The program will be held Monday, November 11th with the parade beginning at 1:30.

-Miss Romanos

Counselors Corner

In the month of November we will be learning about Veterans Day and Respect, Compassion the character word for November and Tattling vs. Reporting! We will also be learning about Compassion in the holiday season as we give to those less fortunate than ourselves. -

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Pre-K

Our Pre-K year is off to a great start! We just completed our first 9 weeks of the semester. This month we will be

learning all about pumpkins and fall! Look for report cards and parent/teacher conference information to be coming

home soon!Kindergarten Korner

Thank you to all of you who support your children in their education. Homework is a great way for you to see what your child is working on and lend support to their education. Reading instruction  is moving at a brisk pace. Please practice with and cheer your child on. We work hard in Kindergarten! We wear ourselves out and need plenty of rest. (Children this age require about 10 hours of sleep daily.)  Please ensure your child gets adequate rest so he/she will be able to work at the best of his/her ability.

First Grade

During November 1st grade students will be reading and writing poetry, counting and recognizing money and learning about natural resources and American values. Parents are always encouraged to read with their

students

2nd grade

In Math, parents can practice giving student a set of like coins with a total value of under $1 and have child determine the value of the set of coins.  If their child can do this then give them a set of coins with 2 different types of coins and keep going until all coins can be mixed up to a $1.Always study math facts. In Nov. we will be starting to add and subtract 2 digits with or without regrouping. For

Brown Booster Club News 

This school year is already in full swing and many exciting things are happening at Brown. The Read-a-Thon has just wrapped up and we read an incredible 33,542 books and raised $5,931.50! There will be an awesome celebration to pass out prizes as soon as they arrive. A big congratulation to Ms. Kimball’s kindergarten class for signing up the most Booster Club members! As a big “Thank You” from the Brown Booster Club, Ms. Kimball’s class will be enjoying a pizza party soon . Fall is in the air, and along with cooler temperatures come some really fun activities that will be happening with the students at Brown. With help from the Booster Club, the Pre-K and Kindergarten classes enjoyed a trip to the Smithville Fire Station and the Pumpkin Patch where they chose their very own pumpkin and some for their classrooms. On November 21st, the cafeteria will be serving their famous Turkey and Dressing Thanksgiving dinner and all are invited. The cafeteria would also appreciate any volunteer help at the dinner if anyone would like to spend some time helping out. Please send in your “Box Tops for Education”. This is a great way to raise some money to help purchase extra items that teachers might like in their classrooms for the students. Smencils are also for sale in the office and sell for $1.00 each. The next Booster Club meeting will be November 12th at 4:15. We have several exciting things happening with the Booster Club this year so come out and join us.

A.C.E. 4 Schools

Frequently Used Numbers 

Nurse 512-237-5648 Cafeteria512-237-5646 Office 512-237-2519

Please do not leave change of transportation

Attendance:

Brown Primary is honoring perfect attendance in a variety of new ways this year! This year we passed out a “brag tag” to every student who had Perfect Attendance. The students with Perfect Attendance were extremely excited to receive these tags! We will be incorporating other rewards throughout the year for the classes who have the best attendance each week and each six weeks! Attendance is extremely important to our children’s education. Please make sure you bring your child to school, on time, on time every day.

Grade Level Happenings and Homework Help

In October ACE (The Association of Citizens for Education) partnered with Playhouse Smithville and LPAA to have the first round of Enrichment Day sessions at Brown Primary. ACE provides the funding for supplies and artist fees for the sessions. Artist come into Brown Primary and provide Art lessons, including Theater Art and Music, to our Kindergarten through Second Grade students. We will have our next round of sessions in November.  If you are interested in helping with