UPCOMING EVENTS

• Sacramento Phliharmonic Visiting Musician Program

  Mr. Julian Dixon, the principal tuba player with the Sacramento Philharmonic, will visit David Reese students on A track next Wednesday, April 29th.  He will show the students two different tubas and play beautiful music for us!

  • California Missions Project

  Almost all students handed their Mission reports on time!  Many students created a model of their mission, several students wrote a report, and one student visited a mission and created a display board with photographs!  We will work on writing a script for oral presentations very soon.

  Yolo Bypass Wetlands Field Trip – April 10, 2009

  Birds, bugs, soil, salmon?  The students from Mrs. Ballard’s third grade class accompanied us to the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area to study the wetland area.  We participated in four activities which included:

  1)Migration Madness (bird study), 2) Wetland Pond Study, 3) Great Percolation Race, and  4) Salmon Senses.  We also had a great opportunity to study the birds in the wetland area with binoculars!  We saw coots, red-winged blackbirds, mallards, and many more varieties of birds!  What an awesome experience!!!

  Many thanks to the Wallis Foundation for providing us with the transportation costs.  Also, thank you to Corky, Melanie, Elia, Al, and Nancy for guiding us through the stations and teaching us about the wetland area…Thank you to Mrs. Blumberg, Mrs. Agello, Mrs. Nguyen, and Mrs. Chavez for helping us throughout the entire trip!  We couldn’t have done it without any of you!

  We will be creating a movie on this special field trip! 

  What’s Happening

  Parents, please make sure your child comes to school each day with two sharpened pencils and his/her binder, along with homework.  Students have daily writing, math, reading. Spelling is usually assigned 2 days per week.