Happy Leap Day!

Well, it's almost time to say good-bye to February.  It was a busy, busy month for firsties!  We celebrated Groundhog's Day, 100th Day of School, Valentine's Day, President's Day, and Dental Health.  That was a lot to cram into such a short month.  Good thing it's Leap Year and we get one extra day!  March is looking like it is going to be just as busy.  We will start with the Read-a-Thon and celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday.  Next, up is St. Patrick's Day and then we reach the end of 3rd quarter.  Time flies when you are having fun!

Please read the following from the PTA blog about the road construction that is starting next week.

Good afternoon!

On behalf of Knife River, welcome to Bench Boulevard road construction email updates. Our goal is to serve residents near the project by providing direct, timely updates each week.

As you may be aware, on Wednesday, March 2, Knife River will begin reconstructing and modernizing the remaining stretch of Bench Boulevard. Early construction will occur north of Barrett Road and related utility relocation will continue south of Wicks.   

Throughout the project, crews are anticipated to work Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. During construction, there may be occasional brief delays, side street closures, short-term driveway impacts, and detours for adjacent residents and businesses. We encourage through traffic to use alternate routes such as Main Street or Hawthorne Lane when possible.

Safety is our top priority while working in your neighborhood – please partner with us to ensure the safety of all residents and crews on Bench Boulevard. We ask drivers and pedestrians to obey all signage and flaggers while we make roadway improvements. Please be aware that fines in work zones will double.

Weekly notifications will also be available in the Billings Gazette and online at http://mdt.mt.gov/pubinvolve/benchblvd. Residents can also tune in Mondays for updates on the following radio stations:

102.9 FM Cat Country 

97.1 FM PopCrush

103.7 FM The Hawk

Thank you again for requesting email updates. We are here to serve you – for questions or concerns about the Bench Boulevard Project, please call 406-281-2098 during business hours or email info@bigskypublicrelations.com.

In reading this week we are working on different text features and how they help us better understand what we are reading.  We will be working with terms such as, headings, captions, table of contents, index, etc. 

Spelling: king, kings, dish, dishes, fox, foxes, take, takes, babies, hers 

They take the dishes.

We are continuing to work on our opinion pieces, specifically, book reviews and recommendations. We are finishing up our book reviews early this week.

In math, we are moving on to adding multiples of 10 to a number.  This is another tough concept.  We start by using manipulatives so the students can really see and understand what we are doing and then move on to drawing pictures to represent the problems.

Also, a big congrats to my two Purple Hand Cookie Award winners, Jayce AND Kory. The kiddos voted and there was a tie!