January 2nd Newsletter

January 2, 2012

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year! I sincerely hope you had a wonderful holiday filled with lots of fun and happiness. It’s great to be back in school and settled into our routine once again.

Christmas Party: I’d like to express a special thanks to those of you who furnished goodies for our Christmas party and also candy for the piñata. The treats were wonderful! The piñata was a lot of fun. We appreciate your efforts.

Toy Day: On Friday January 6th, students may bring one toy to school. The students will be able to play with them at the end of the day. Please don’t send anything that will break or remote control cars.

Language: We will be writing a winter couplet, working with quotation marks, reviewing r-controlled words, and learning how to add -ing to words.

Spelling: Watch for spelling words to come home today. The test will be on Thursday.

Math: We will review place value, double digit addition and subtraction, and work with money.

2nd Quarter Ending: January 13th will be the end of the second quarter of school. If you have reading minutes or homework, please have them turned in by then as I will be doing the progress reports.

Reading Parents: Reading parents may continue to come this week. We appreciate you and the help you give to our class.

Grandparents Program: On Monday February 13th at 1:30 p.m., we will have a program for our grandparents. (Parents & family members are invited to attend, too.) We have begun to learn songs and poems for it. Invitations will be sent home when the date gets a little closer. If your child has grandparents who live close enough that they might be able to attend, would you please let them know of the date? Mark the date on your calendar as well. Thanks! The program will last approximately 45 minutes.

MISC: We will plant potatoes and a root garden this week in class. It will be fun to watch them grow over the winter months. We’ll have a potato party the last week of school where we’ll eat our potatoes. We will learn about feelings this week, how to stay healthy and talk about setting goals. We will also start learning about Martin Luther King and the important role he had in American history.


Social Studies: We will begin our unit on maps this week. It’s a fun unit where we learn about direction, continents, oceans and the world around us.

I appreciate all that you do to help us.

Sincerely,
Brenda Haight