Roycemore School Lower School News 2015-16

Thank you to all the parents of the RFA who truly made our teachers feel loved and respected. TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK was a huge success thanks to all of
you!

Congratulation to Daniel Black Gr. 4 for placing third in the United States and second in IL in the Math Kangaroo national competition! We are so proud of his achievement both last week as placing first in the Math League competition at NU and now this week!

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WEEKEND IS MAY 13, 14 AND 15TH. There are still tickets available. Please join us for the Party of the Century as Roycemore turns 100 years old. From Friday May 13-Sunday May 15, we will provide a variety of exciting activities including our fabulous party at the House of Blues, alumni reception, picnic and tours of our old building at 640 Lincoln Street, rooftop tickets to a Cubs game and much more. All information is available on our website at www.roycemoreschool.org/centennial We hope you will all come. It looks like it will be lots of fun and you will be supporting our school!

ROYCEMORE ALUM AND AUTHOR MELANIE ABED TALKING TO OUR 3RD-6TH GRADE STUDENTS FRIDAY, MAY 13
We are so lucky that author and Roycemore alum, Melanie Abed whose book Anni Moon and the Elemental Artifact has delighted students, is coming in for the Centennial weekend and has volunteered to talk to our students of how she became an author. I have known Melanie since she was 14 years old, as she graduated from Roycemore with my daughter. We are thrilled that she will be here.

YOUNG EVANSTON ARTISTS (YEA): SATURDAY MAY 21
Each year Roycemore participates in the Young Evanston Artists festival. Every art student from Kindergarten through Grade 12 will have artwork displayed from 10:00 AM-4:00PM in Raymond Park, at the intersection of Lake and Chicago Ave. We hope you all will come see our students amazing artwork. I promise we always have one of the best booths at the show.

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The YEA Festival is on Saturday, May 21. Volunteers are need on Friday May 20 to lead the bus and on Saturday May 21 to help set up the booth, relieve Mrs. O'Donnell and Ms. Hecht at the booth, and to help take down the booth and load the bus. On Sunday volunteers can help upload the bus. All art students at Roycemore will be represented at our booth, so all Lower School students in Kindergarten through 4th Grade will have pieces in the show. If you are available for any of the above times, please register at www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4dada92ba5fb6-yeaart

UPCOMING DATES:
The SPRING SHOW is Thursday, May 26 for students in Grades 3-12. If your children would like to be in the show,please email Mrs. Wunder at jwunder@roycemoreschool.org

There is still room in both DISCOVERY UNLIMITED AND CAMP. Because the NU Center For Talent Development will be using our building this summer, Discovery will take place the first two weeks after school is out, June 13-24.
A full description of the Discovery and Camp offerings are at www.roycemoreschool.org/summer. You will also find a link for online registration.

Discovery is starting a week before camp this year. Therefore we will be offering an Extended Day Program until 3:00 p.m. for those of you who need childcare for the first week. The children will be able to cycle into camp as usual for the second week, so we will be having childcare until our usual 6:00 for that week.

PICTURES THIS WEEK:

1. The Junior Kindergarten knows that it is spring. They are planting grass, making a spring mural and printing with plastic insects. By the way they know all the body parts of the insects.

2. All the new studies are showing that movement is so important for learning. We agree with those studies. Our early childhood children get both physical education and/or outdoor recess every morning. If they stay for lunch, they get another hour of recess. Our first through fourth graders get a half hour for lunch but then 45 minutes of unstructured recess plus physical education every day! Unstructured recess is so important for developing social skills, learning how to work collaboratively, to share, to negotiate to resolve conflicts and learning self-advocacy skills. It also spurs creativity, helps children discover areas of interest on their own, and learn to just have fun!

3. As part of their unit on inventions and entrepreneurship the Fourth Graders presented their inventions to a group of administers in a "Shark Tank". We all had to decide which inventions we wanted to invest in. These girls invented an app.

4. Lots of fun activities are happening in the classrooms from math playing games to practicing writing Spanish.

See more pictures at the bottom of the blog

AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT
All activities will be going this week!
K Lego Club will meet Monday, May 9 in the Kindergarten Classroom from 3:15-4:00.
Gr. 1-4 Lego Club will  meet Monday, May 9 in the 3rd Grade Classroom G13 from 3:15-4:00.
Programming will meet Monday, May 9 in the 4th Grade Classroom G12 from 3:15-4:00.
Martial Arts will  meet Tuesday, May 10 in the Multi Purpose Room from 3:15-4:00.
Sprout will meet Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10 & 11 in the Lower School Art Room from 3:15-5:15.
Creative Improv will meet Wednesday, May 11 in the LS Music Room from 3:15-4:15.
Cross Country will meet Wednesday, May 11 in the Multi-Purpose Room from 3:15-4:00.
Chess Club will meet Thursday, May 12 in the EDP Room and G06 from 3:00-4:00
License to Chill will  meet Friday morning, May 13 at 8:10 a.m. in the MPR.
Fitness Fun Friday will meet Friday, May 13 in the Gym from 3:15-4:00.
Spanish Club will meet Friday, May 13 in Room 227 with pickup in the Foyer.

A REMINDER: Please remember that Roycemore Lower School is a nut/peanut-free environment. Please remember this when you send in birthday treats and snacks for your children. There are many other allergies, specific to individual children, so please check with your classroom teacher before sending in treats. Thank you in advance for caring about all of our children.

Finally, a reminder that available on RenWeb is a school calendar with all events. This can be found in the "School Information" section under the heading "Calendar." Please consult this calendar for a weekly preview of what is coming