Hello Families,

In your child’s folder there are two important papers.  One is the permission slip for our next field trip and the other is a list of the children’s names.  For Valentine’s Day I’m asking that each student make or buy a card for the others in the class.  This can be anything you want.  I always underestimate how much the students at this age look forward to these (junky) little Valentine cards!  They are joyful on the day of the party and read each one!

This week is pretty normal except that we are making pizza dough instead of bread.  Since I’ve never done this with a class before, I predict that we will make the dough on Thursday and  flavor the pies on Friday.  Here goes nothing!

Data and graphing in math continue this week.  The kids are doing some interesting work.  We break sentences down into their parts in writing.  We’re taking a break from learning new phonograms.  We will get out  our earth worms and pill bugs to do some serious observation in science.

Hopefully, we can go outside a little more…

Lastly, we will be sewing our pillows next week, Tuesday through Friday, from 9-10 am.  Calling any available hands to prevent too many bloody fingers!  Helping in class would involve sitting with a budding hand-sewer, keeping him or her on track.

Have a good week,

Kristin