Tuesday, April 27

We had a great morning today!  The George & Jan Syrigos with Wild Heart Conservation Education Entertainment were here this morning to do an assembly.  Our Home & School sponsored the assembly for our students doing well on MAP Week.  We really enjoyed the assembly.  The students knew many of the songs because they had been singing them in music class with Mrs. Martin.  The Syrigos family also hosts summer camps and more information about this is available on their website
http://www.wildheartmusic.com/

We are getting ready for Field Day!  It is Friday, May 7th and we are looking for volunteers to help.  Please look for a sign-up sheet to be coming home soon.

It's Friday!!

Tonight is the Blair Oaks Elementary Carnival!  A big thanks to Angela Terry, Amy Robinson, and Susan Patterson!  They have been working hard to make this a fun night for everyone!  It is tonight from 5-8pm.

Also tonight.... the "Drive One for your School" event is taking place at Mike Kehoe Ford today from 3:30-6:00 pm and tomorrow from 9:00-3:00.


Ford will donate $20 per test drive to the Blair Oaks Booster Club. Drivers must be at least 18 years of age and have a valid drivers license.

A big thank you to Jamie Micke and Linda Brinkmann for their help with the sno-cones yesterday!  We all enjoyed them!

MAP Testing Week Underway!!

Our students are working extremely hard during testing week! We are very proud of them all!  Tomorrow we will have snocones for all of the students in the afternoon.  If you are available to help out after 1pm tomorrow come on up!  We can use extra hands with the sno-cones! 

The carnival is on Friday night from 5-8pm.  The Home and School Officers  have been working hard on getting it all organized.  We still need more volunteers.  Please let us know if you are able to help!  Please email me -   lwinslow@blairoaks.k12.mo.us  or call  634-2808.  This is going to be a great night for our students! 

The First Graders just left for their fieldtrip today.  They will be riding the train to Sedalia and then taking the bus back to school!  We had many excited students this morning.  The weather is perfect for their trip today. 

The school board did meet last night and no decision was made on summer school.  The board did take action on driver's education and it will be offered this summer at additional cost of offset the state funding that had been previously received.  The enrollment forms for this will be available on Thursday, April 15.

Enjoy the beautiful day!

MAP Testing Coming Up!

It starts on Monday and we will have it wrapped up by Friday.  The students and teachers are ready and I have no doubt they will all put forth their best efforts next week.  Our fourth graders came up with this about what it is to be a Falcon!
Falcons

Are always
Learning
Checking work
On time
Never quitting
Superstar students


Have a great weekend!






This is a great motto for our building! The fourth grade students came up with this.

Wednesday, April 7

This four day week has me confused.  I seemed to think it was Tuesday all day!  Maybe by Friday I will be straightened out.

Please send in all Spring picture orders tomorrow.  The Wagner Photo rep is coming to pick them up.  We had many students order.  If you missed this deadline, you may still order online.  We have so many cute kids!  I loved looking at the pictures.

Welcome McKenzie Houser!  She is a new kindergarten students in Mrs. Skinner's class.  She previously attended school in Eugene, MO.

We still need parents volunteers for the school carnival on Friday, April 16th.  Please send in your form is you are able to help out!   It is going to be a fun night!

Welcome back!

We had a great day back after our four day weekend!  The students were ready to be back and all teachers were here and ready to go. 

Today is our last day of tutoring for this school year. 

Spring picture money is due tomorrow!  Orders will still be taken online after this date.

Today we had the University of Missouri Extension Food Power Exhibit in our gym for all of our students.  The high school TREND students (under the guidance of Julie Lueckenhoff - high school health teacher) helped run the exhibit by coordinating each of the stations.  We had a great day with this and recieved compliments from the presentors about how well behaved our students were during the program.

We have changed the date of Talent Show to Tuesday, May 18th at 6:30pm.  Hope this does not inconvenience anyone!