Dear Families,

 Because the week is half over, I will write a newsletter for this week and next.

 ***An important change is that our field trip to Semifreddi Bakery has been rescheduled for the day before previously planned.  Now we are visiting the plant on Monday, 2/22, from 12:00-3:00.

 Another timely message is that tomorrow is our library day so return those Crocker books if you have them!

 Two fun assemblies this week.  Tomorrow, Chinese Lion Dancers and Friday, Black History Celebration with yours truly.  Yes, in absentia, I was nominated to be the lead singer of the Chantels.  With some other silly adults I will lip sync to “Maybe” in front of the student body…keeps me grounded!

 We’re stuffing our pillows tomorrow.  Are any of you capable of hand sewing the small open enclosures together to finish them off?  Send me an email!

 Next week we have our bread field trip as well as a visit from Tyra’s father, one of the City’s finest.  He will talk to us about his life as a police officer!

 We’re making great progress moving through the phonograms for spelling and reading and in reading groups the students are just devouring those stories!  In math, we’re about to launch into an addition and subtraction phase where students devise strategies and practice these strategies to work with numbers to 20 instead of 10.  In science, I’m thinking through a way for all of us to create one beautiful habitat diorama after the students take a vote on which of the many habitats to choose.  This will be another way to collect data, tally the data, and graph the results.

That’s it–have a good one!