Hoot 20 - Happy New Year!

Welcome back to school!

The children all seemed to be energized and eager to start a new chapter of learning in the New Year last week.

We worked on the letter Nn, reading leveled readers (focusing on n and a), counting by 10s. composing/decomposing numbers past 100, the twelve months, two-dimensional shapes, and celebrating the New Year.

Please check out your child's electronic portfolio to see updated work.



This coming week we will be preparing for Martin Luther King's day. TISA will be in session that day. We will be having service learning helping out in the community.

January events:
January 16: MLK service learning day -- please let me know if you'd like to volunteer that day
January 17 (10am): field trip to library
January 19: pizza money due
January 26: pizza day

Homework:
Every child took home word family readers during the last week of December. Please have your child practice reading the books 10 minutes each day. When the contents become predictable, you may want to cut up the books and create flash cards using the pages. It is tremendously helpful to have home support with reading at home. We are moving on to vowels "o" and "i" soon.

Requests:
Please make sure that your child has these items at school:

• winter gear every day 
• extra set of clothing (labeled in bag)
• slippers
• new sketch book if needed (a few prolific children could use a new sketch book)

Please send in old calendars, Christmas cards, and old wrapping paper to be repurposed at school. We could also use an extra sled or two to borrow.