Important Dates and a Peek at the Week!

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Next week is an A week. (Library on Tuesday)

SHOE DRIVE

Starting Monday, there will be a box at PNB to collect new and gently used shoes. These shoes will be collected in effort to raise money for research for one of our PNB students who has a rare disease. Below is a short message from his mom about the cause.

PLEASE DONATE YOUR GENTLY WORN, USED AND NEW SHOES TO A CURE FOR JACK, BENEFITTING SLC6A1 CONNECT

My name is Janet Hart and I have been part of the Pinebrook family for the past two years. Our son, Jack, is a busy 6 year old boy living with a rare neurological disease, SLC6A1. He suffers from seizures, cognitive delays, apraxia of speech, and developmental delays. We are actively working toward a cure and need your help to raise the necessary funds to move on to a clinical trial for gene replacement therapy. Every shoe collected turns into dollars for #ACureforJack and will help Jack and the other children diagnosed with SLC6A1, the disease so rare, it doesn’t even have a name. Please click the link below to read more about Jack's story.

Accepting ALL shoes, including kids, athletic and cleats. No tears, rips, or holes please

The goal is to collect 100 bags of shoes, with 25 pairs in each bag! Please help us to achieve this.

Collected shoes are used to support micro-enterprise vendors. Micro-enterprises are small businesses in developing nations. They are typically operated by one person or family and friends, depending on size.

https://slc6a1connect.org/jack-hart/

Please consider going through your shoe collection to donate!

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS.

RAK Spirit Week (February 18th-21st)

● Monday:​ Student Holiday: No School

● Tuesday:​ Kindness Rocks! (Show your support for kindness by dressing as a rock or ​RAK​ star)

● Wednesday:​ Dreaming about kindness (Wear your PJ’s...no slippers please)

● Thursday:​ Sunshine of Someone’s Day (Wear yellow and sunglasses to brighten someone’s day)

● Friday:​ At PNB kindness starts with ME! (Wear PNB spirit wear) 

A Call for Career Day Volunteers!

Do you remember how it felt when you started your job? The excitement, anticipation, because maybe you've never done it before? That's how we feel now!

If you are passionate about your occupation and would like to share with and inspire our students, we are looking for parent and community volunteers to speak/present at our upcoming Career Day (4/2/20)! You can share what your typical workday involves, where you went to school, and why you chose your occupation. 

Please return the linked google form by Mar. 2. Thank you for your support in helping our Pumas reach for the stars! https://forms.gle/cUR5bsyjEZGRbFcZ6

Dreambox

Students need to complete 60 minutes of Dreambox to earn Fun Friday.  If you are having difficulty accessing Dreambox through LCPSGO, you can click the link below.  The login and password is your child’s student number and the Class Code is 44359.

https://play.dreambox.com/login/kwah/pinebrooke

Test Dates:

February 20th - Weather Test

February 21st - Calendar Test
February 27th - Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall Quiz

March 5th - Helen Keller and Rosa Parks Quiz

March 10th - Measurement Test

March 11th - George Washington Carver and Benjamin Franklin Quiz

March 17th - Abraham Lincoln and Cesar Chavez Quiz

March 20th - Famous Americans Test

Important Dates:

February 17th - Presidents' Day (No School)
February 18th-21st - Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Week

February 21st - Parent Coffee at Little River Elementary - Topic: Anxiety (Time TBD)
February 26th - Moe's Spirit Night (5pm-8pm)

March 2nd - Spring Pictures
March 3rd - No School For Students (Professional Development Day)
March 4th - Fine Arts Night 6:30pm
March 9th - PTA Meeting 7pm
March 16th-March 20th - Spring Book Fair
March 24th - Parent Coffee
March 25th - Spring Bingo
March 26th - End of Quarter 3
March 27th - No School for Students (Teacher Work Day)
March 30th - Parent Coffee


Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

* Reading:  We will practice making predictions and retelling important parts of a story. 

* Writing:  We will be writing about and nominating our favorite books.

* Math:  We will begin a mini unit on calendar skills.
* Science - We will continue our weather unit.