Dear Bingham families,
Our March is reading month activities have continued. We began our week with a visit from Phillip Stead, an author and illustrator. The students learned about the many techniques artists use to illustrate books. Many were surprised that it takes as long as 18 months to illustrate one children’s book. Our reader dog at Monday lunch was again well attended, our students love to cuddle up and read with the therapy dogs. We do have one more day with both dogs next week as well. Cyndi Settecerri was the guest at our PTA meeting on Tuesday night to talk about the components of the 3rd grade reading law and the interventions and strategies we have at Bingham for our students who are not at grade level. We also shared an article on the effects of screen time on young children’s minds, a fascinating read. On Thursday, we hosted more than 80 students and their VIP’s to eat breakfast and begin the day with shared reading time.
Our Spring conferences are next week, an important event we look forward to each spring to collaborate together about our children and their progress, we hope to see everyone. Our book fair will be set up for conferences next week, while you are here, stop in to see some of the great books we have available.
Debbie
BINGHAM FARMS INFORMATION
The Scholastic
Book Fair is HERE!
March 18; 8:30 - 4:30 pm
March 19 & 22; 8:30 - 12:30 pm
March 20 & 21; 8:30 - 8:00 pm
You can also shop the online book fair HERE!
News from the Library!
March 20th from 12-12:30 (just after school dismissal)
will be a time for the “Grands” or grandparents
of our students to come to the Scholastic Book Fair
and read the available books.
There will be cashiers if you wish to purchase them.
Book Drive!
Bingham Farms is collecting gently used
and new books for RX for Reading Detroit.
Please bring them in by March 22nd.
All for Books is collecting money.
There is a collection container in the library.
With the money we collect we will buy books
from the book fair and donated to RX for Reading Detroit.
Reading Month Logs
If you are keeping track of reading minutes at home,
you do not have to turn in the blue "bases"
log until the end of the month.
I only need a total of their reading minutes from home.
All blue minute logs are due back by April 8th.
All students that have reached their March
minutes goal will receive a FREE ticket.
The baseball game that we are attending is on
June 13th. (7:00 GAME)
If you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact Cyndi Settecerri.
Get Your Reading On!!
Parent Teacher Conferences
Spring conferences will be
Wednesday and Thursday, March 20 and 21.
Conference times are
from 1:00-4:00 and 5:00-8:00.
Sign-Ups will be coming soon.
There is a half day of school
for students on conferences days.
Half Days Wednesday and Thursday
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
due to Parent Teacher Conferences are half days.
Dismissal is at noon both days, and the busses will depart at 12:05.
Afternoon Kids Club is available for registered Kids Club users.
Sign up through your Kids Club account.
Thursday is a flipped UA schedule,
meaning that if your child has a special scheduled in the afternoon,
they will have it in the morning instead.
Muscular Dystrophy Fundraiser
Bingham will be continuing our school fundraiser
for TEAM JOSEPH to support
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
We will continue our fundraising
through a coin drive.
Each student took home a coin box
for coin/cash collections and TEAM JOSEPH note.
Please see the note for more information.
Please have your child keep their
box at home and collect any extra cash or change.
The boxes will be collected by classroom teachers on APRIL 24.
THE CLASS THAT HAS
RAISED THE MOST MONEY
WILL WIN A PIZZA PARTY
FROM STUDENT COUNCIL!!!
​If you have any questions, please contact
Ms. Roach or Mrs. Stockel!
Thank you for your participation
and donations for TEAM JOSEPH
and supporting muscular dystrophy.
