Mrs. McClenathen

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May 22, 2012

Dear Parents,

What a fantastic field trip we had to the UCSB Marine Biology Lab! Thank you to our wonderful 
parents who drove.  In our Tuesday folder we will have our second to last permission slip for our 
field trip to Lotusland. It will be on Friday, June 8th and I have enough drivers. If you signed up, I will 
contact you soon.  We will also have lunch at Manning Park following the tour of Lotusland. Please 
contact me if you would like to assist with this.

Our last field trip will be our end of the year party at the Santa Barbara Zoo on June 13th. We will be 
getting a bus and going with the first grade. Permission slips will come out in June. If there are any 
parents that would like to coordinate lunch and or games for the children, please let me know.

Our Hero/Heroine reports are due this Thursday. The report should follow the format the students 
have learned this year. A plastic cover, a title page with a photo of their hero, as well as a 
bibliography. I will be looking for Jackie Robinson’s nine values to live by incorporated in the report. 
The diorama/poster and costume will be due on May 29th when presentations begin. Please help 
your child practice reading their report out loud at home. They will be presenting to the class next 
week.

Our May crowning will be held in the church on Wednesday, May 30th. Each child is asked to bring 
flowers to the Kindergarten room in the morning. Garden flowers are just fine. The fourth grade will 
be doing a special presentation this year to “Hail Mary, Gentle Woman”. Please come if you are 
available.

Parents, our statue of the Blessed Mother is being brought home nightly in the month of May. It must 
be returned the next day. Unfortunately, we had a family that missed out on their turn because a 
student did not return it the next day. A list went home, and it is also posted on the 4th grade door 
as to when your family will have the statue and the CD so your family can say the rosary together.  
Please check the list.  If you do not wish to participate, please let me know so others can benefit. 
Thank you.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me (email or note) if you have any questions. The homework is 
posted on my web site.

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.

God Bless,

Mrs. McClenathen

May 1, 2012

Dear Parents,

Today, we continue our school tradition of saying a decade of the Rosary each day after salutes 
during the month of May.  Please have your child bring in their special rosary to use.  If they do not 
have one, I will provide one for their use in the classroom. Enclosed in this e-mail (and posted on 
our classroom door) is a schedule for taking home the blessed mother statue and CD of the rosary. I 
encourage you to say the rosary with your family. Please return the Statue and CD the next day as 
each child will only have one opportunity to use the statue and CD this month.

I want to remind our special Mothers that we will be having a Mother’s Day Tea in your honor.  
Please RSVP if you have not already done so. The “Tea” will be held next Thursday, May 10th, at 
1:15-2:30. The students have worked very hard and have many surprises. Please remember to send 
in a 4x6 or 5x7 photo of yourself for our bulletin board. The students should bring their uniform to 
change into after P.E. on that day.

The Jog a Thon is This Friday. Pledge sheets are due today. (Tuesday) If you did not turn it in, please 
do so as soon as possible. You may get another pledge sheet on our school website.  Please come 
out and support our team in red! If your child turned in $50 in pledges they will be eligible for a 
pizza lunch on jog a thon day.

We want to thank Mrs. Naour, who did a stupendous job creating our red t-shirts with the help of 
Mrs. Esparza. We appreciate their efforts. Please send in $7.50 to cover the cost of the photo/t-shirt 
if you have not already done so.  The students will not only wear the t-shirts for the jog a thon, but 
also our next two field trips to the UCSB Marine Biology Lab, and to Lotusland in June.

Speaking of our UCSB field trip, the date is May 18h. We will be leaving the school at 10:40 and 
returning around 1:00. Permission slips are in today’s plastic folder. If you would like to drive for this 
field trip, please check our list on the 4th grade door. Permission slips and money need to be 
returned by Friday. Please do not combine 
t-shirt money and field trip money.

Our final project, the Hero Report is fast approaching. This week I have asked students to be looking 
for a biography that they would like to read and report on. I will give written instructions next 
Tuesday, but I will be approving books this week. We went to the library today and many students 
made their choice, either with a book from our school library or one from our classroom.  Students 
will dress up for the occasion as their hero. They are very excited about this! They will also create a 
poster, or a diorama to show their hero’s life. I connect this project to Jackie Robinson’s nine values 
to live by. You will hear more about this next week, and in the future.

Finally, parents I want to thank you for your support. I am enjoying this class so much. I appreciate 
enthusiastic learners, and each and every one of your children has a love for learning.  I am so 
blessed! Please know that I am here for you to answer any of your questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Diane McClenathen

Schedule for the Blessed Mother

May 1									Emilio Almazan
May 2									Franco Bilotti
May 3									Brendan Carlyle
May 4									Marcelo Carrea
May 7									Ysabella Dodson
May 8									Ashlyn Draper
May 9									Jerrod Epley
May 10								Reade Varisio
May 11								Juan Luis Esparza
May 14								Allison Franzen
May 15								Hope Giorgi
May 16								Andrew Hernandez
May 17								Eduardo Hernandez
May 18								Leiesa Jacinto
May 21								David Jimenez
May 22								Morgan Magne
May 23								Marc McClure
May 24								Sydney Naour
May 25								Anthony Reyes
May 29								Gabriel Rodriquez
May 30								Mary Walters
May 31								Madeline Chambers
June 1									Sloane Dickens
June 4									Julia Gregson
June 5									Kathleen Lotton
June 6									Ariana Morones
June 7									Chris Ochsner
June 8									Matt Pigatti
June 11								Christina Romero

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