What a great celebration!  Many thanks to everyone who pulled the party together!!!  Aren’t they cute???

(p.s. report cards came home today in the red folders)

Sorry for the late reminder…

Tomorrow (Wednesday) is hippie day.  There was also a menu change for lunch – first choice will be macaroni and cheese.

• For reading homework over the weekend, I asked the students to log in and read on RAZ-kids.  Any student who logs in 3 times and spends some time reading, earns a prize on Monday.
• Spirit week starts on Monday.  It is mismatch day or sports day.

• Tomorrow is a half day.  Students will be dismissed at 11:45.
• No school Friday.
• Please return your book order tomorrow or go online and order.  Our classroom code is MK4VL
• I had one parent ask if pizza kit orders will be accepted tomorrow – the PTA has said yes.  So if you still want to turn an order in, you can slide it in tomorrow 🙂

• The PTA is hoping that you are selling tons and tons of pizza kits 🙂  Please return your order forms tomorrow!
• LIBRARY CHECK-OUT IS TOMORROW.
• No spelling this week.
• A few social studies papers came home today to help with studying for Thursday’s quiz.  We will work more on the different branches tomorrow.
• Book orders are due by Thursday.  You can go online to order using our class code, MK4VL, or you can return your slip to me.
• Spirit week is coming up next week.  Monday is mismatch/sports day, Tuesday is class color day (I’ll let you know what our color is when I know), Wednesday is hippie day, Thursday is dress like a book/movie character, and Friday will be pj/crazy hair/birthday bash.  More information about birthday bash will follow.

• No school on Monday, January 19th.
• Book orders came home today.  You can order online using our class code   (MK4VL ) OR, you can return the orders to me by Thursday (1-22-15)
• We will have a Social Studies test next Thursday.  I will send home some vocabulary and the big ideas on Tuesday to help anyone who wants to study.
• We check out library books on Wednesday next week since we don’t have school on Friday.
• 1/2 day on Thursday, 1-22-15.  Students will be dismissed at 11:45
• No school on Friday, 1-23-15
• We had so many marshmallows and spaghetti noodles that we used them again today to make some 3D shapes.

• Tomorrow is our library check-out day.  Please help your child remember to bring their books back.  Next week we will check-out on Wednesday since we have no school on Friday.
• Today with our buddies we worked on the challenge of building the tallest tower using marshmallows and spaghetti noodles.  It was harder than we thought, but still pretty fun 🙂  Here are a few pics of some of the engineers:

• This Wednesday is a late start.  Class starts at 9:35 a.m.
• No School on Monday, January 19th and Friday, January 23rd.
• Thursday, January, 22nd is a half-day for students.  They will be dismissed at 11:45.
• Students must have boots AND snow pants to play on the playground during outdoor recess.  Without both, they must stay on the blacktop.  We went outside today and it was super fun 🙂
• Spelling words for this week are:  horse, fort, start, jar, park.  Many students have individual words again so please make sure they study all 10 of their words.

I am excited to be sending out another sign-up for helping the students do their library check-out on Fridays.  If you have the time, we would love to have you come in one week and help us.  Here is the link to take you to sign-up genius:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4FA5A929ABF85-library

• New spelling words today are:  screen, stripe, sprain, struck, spruce. For many kids, those 5 words are the only ones they have to study.  Some students will come home with 10 words today.  That is because I have started adding individual words for them along with the pattern words.  The individual words will be part of their test.
• We are back to building stamina during Daily 5.  Today we practiced Read to Self.  Tomorrow we will build our stamina for Work on Writing.  If all goes well with those, we should have all of our Daily 5 choices back by Friday.
• If your child completed a December Reading Calendar for BookIT, please return it by Wednesday.  The January calendar came home today.  Students need to read on at least 25 days to earn their certificate.