January
8, 2016
Dear Families,
Happy New
Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday time and
enjoyed the long break from school. Thank you for all of the wonderful holiday cards,
sweet sentiments, and the lovely gifts! I felt very spoiled by you. J Also, we love
our new classroom supplies! New pencils, erasers, art items, dry
erase markers, Sharpies, glue sticks, soft tissues, hand soap and great books just
to name a few! W-o-w! We are in good
shape as we head into winter! Also, thanks to our awesome
volunteers who helped at the Winter Celebration and for the contributions
of various items for our holiday event. We had great food and treats for our afternoon party! Truly without you and your help we
couldn’t make these types of things happen for the kids. Thanks Parents!
It
was great to see all the kids after our time away! We have had a good week
together getting right back into the swing of things. We have officially started our cursive
practice with a few letters under our belt. Kids seem to love learning it and
have good focus and attention to detail.
In writing we are now in the drafting stage of persuasive writing. Students have chosen a topic that is
important to him/her and will develop it and argue their case. Stay tuned… ! Lots of work this week
with perimeter and area in math. We continue with our read aloud Hoot, which is
getting interesting as the plot thickens.
And we continue to explore and investigate weather topics. Thursday we did an interesting
exploration with humidity. Find
out more from your kiddo! Lots of new things to start off the New Year…
including our new classmate! How
exciting for us. We happily
welcome Malcolm
to our class.!