Week of January 8th

Dear Parents,                

Happy New Year!  I'd like to thank you, as parents, for the beautiful AUBURN blanket I received from the class.....it kept me warm several times over the holidays.

Just a quick note to say "hello" and tell you that Tuesday and Wednesday have been two good days in school so far.  Yes, they are a bit tired, but we've still been working away with different skills.  On Tuesday we talked about what a resolution was for the New Year.  We are working on a booklet that has them write about 3 New Year's "promises" that they want to keep.  Hopefully, you'll see that by Friday or the first of next week.  I'm sure many of you have heard about us studying the Arctic and Antarctaria regions of the world and all of the animals that go along with the two areas - penguins, polar bears, sea lions, whales, snow birds, snow rabbits, etc.  I will do many of my curriculum skills through this study area  -  such as verbs, writing sentences, talking more about nouns both common and proper ones, winter math,  etc.

I promise to give a more detailed description of our class activities either in a news update sheet or on my next blog.  In the mean time, keep your child reading, reading, and reading!  Conference information comes home tomorrow, the 10th, so please return the bottom half of the letter to let me know your time slot is good.  If it isn't, please let me know when will be good and I'll rearrange your time.  Thanks for all you do as parents.....we are a team!

Sincerely,   Peggy Snook           P. S.  We can only hope for some of this weather in January!!!!