Reminders:

Please remember towels in towel bags and bags of snow gear.
The kids have been doing well bringing in snow gear and keep track of it…for the most part 🙂 We continue to figure out the best places for everything. Thank you for your help!
January 22: NO PM Bussing
Tuesday, January 26: Report cards will be sent home in red folders
January 28: All School 1/2 day, No PM Bussing
Monday, February 8: 100th Day! Unless we have a snow day, we are planning on celebrating 100th day on February 8. We will dress “super” and hope to meet Zero the Hero! More details to come. You can think of a SIMPLE super hero shirt or head band, mask or cape for your child to wear.
Friday, February 12-Monday February 15: Winter Break, No School
Tuesday, February 16: Valentine’s Celebration You may send in valentine’s for your child to pass out to friends. You do not need to label the To section, but please have your child sign his/her name on the From section. We have 19 friends in our classroom

What We Have Been Learning:

This week our devotions have been full of good reminders to be kind and loving. We have asked God to help us think before we speak and treat others the way we would want to be treated. It is wonderful to see everyone trying to live this out. We have also talked a lot about forgiveness and I have seen friends forgive each other and ask what he/she can do to make it better.
We continue to practice our Bible verse, Matthew 19:14

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

We added come to our word wall
Our writers have been working so hard! We continue to practice writing sentences and sounding out words. I am so impressed with the writing I am seeing.
Engaging God’s World has been creative and fun and the kids have taken charge building ramps and experimenting with motion and gravity. This week’s challenge was to figure out a way to make an object stop at the end of the ramp.
In Math we are focusing the next few weeks on writing numbers, number partners and teen numbers. We use manipulatives, workbook pages and lots of writing materials to really get to know these concepts.