• 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.

We had an awesome day!  We baked brownies, went to computer  lab, did our book exchange, sang in the sing-a-long, and then watched Rudolph.  We got in a little bit of spelling, reading, math, and gym, too 🙂  Here are some pictures from our party yesterday (that was great, too – thanks for all the help and donations) and from today’s activities, as well!!  Enjoy your break!

We are jam packed with activities to keep us busy this week!

• Don’t forget tomorrow is our party!  We will start around 2:00 with the craft.  Then we will eat and decorate cookies 🙂
• Friday is our book exchange.  Every student who brings a book will get a book.  If you are unable to grab a book in time, please let me know.
• Howard is accepting donations of hats and gloves for the giving tree.  If you would like to send in a pair, I will have your child take them down and put them on the tree.
• Friday afternoon is the school sing-a-long.  Children with Hair Loss will be here.  There are a few girls who are going to have their hair cut and donated to help the foundation make wigs for kids who are sick.  They are still able to take more kids.  You need to have 8 inches trimmed off in order to donate.  I am encouraging Avery to participate, but we’ll see 😉

…Raz-Kids should be back up and running!  Please check it out and let me know if it is working for you.  Thanks again to everyone who has sent in their $4 to help me cover the cost of the subscription 🙂

Also, next Friday is still open for a parent volunteer to help by taking small groups to the library for check-out.  If you think you have the day open, here is the link to sign-up genius:

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4EA9AF2BA0F94-library

Finally, the review came back today for the Unit 4 math test on Monday (I called it Unit 3 yesterday, oops!).  If you can, have your child practice problems similar to those on the review.  Those story problems can be tricky if they don’t pay attention to all of the parts.

• Tomorrow students are encouraged to wear something sports related and donate $1 to Howard for the PBIS store.
• A note came home today about our party next week.  We will be celebrating on Thursday afternoon.  If you haven’t done so yet, please send in $2 for the room parents to buy supplies.
• A math review came home today.  These problems are examples of what students will see  when we take the district Unit 3 test.  We will go over the review tomorrow.  Our test will most likely be Monday.
• THANK YOU to everyone who has already sent in $4 to cover the cost of the subscription to Raz-Kids.  It should be back up and running tomorrow!
• Don’t forget next Friday is our book exchange.  Everyone should bring in a new, wrapped book to participate.  If you cannot get a new book, please let me know.
• Our buddies helped us make maps of the North Pole today 🙂

is late start, so students will come to school at 9:35!!

It is also our turn to shop at the Holiday Boutique!  An envelope came home last week for you to fill out and put money in if your child is going to shop.  If you don’t have the envelope, but want to shop, we will need a list of people they are buying for.  If they are buying for sisters/brothers, please make sure you write down their age and name.  Everything in the shop is $2.

On another note – All of the feedback I heard about Raz-Kids was positive 🙂 I am going to purchase the subscription so we can get back to using it.  If we split the cost of the subscription by student, it is only $4 each.  Anyone who is willing/able to send in $4 for your child’s subscription, it would be very much appreciated.  Either way, I will still keep the whole class activated.

• Raz-Kids expires tomorrow!  If you haven’t checked it out yet, please try it tonight.  I have gotten very positive feedback so far 🙂
• Late Start next Wednesday, 12/10/14.  Students start at 9:30 a.m.
• Spelling for the week of 12/8:

  each    which    match   dish   with   moth   cash     batch     rich     stitch

• In today’s folder:  Science tests and Holiday Botique information.  Spelling tests are graded and entered but did not make it into the folder…if you get curious before Monday, I have posted it in MiStar.