Week 14

I hope everyone had a great week off and a terrific time with your families!  I spent some much needed time in Oklahoma and feel refreshed and ready to tackle this week.

Thank you to all of the parents who went on the field trip with us.  You were absolutely amazing!  I have never had such a smooth trip, and that is due primarily to your hard work and cooperation.  Thanks for your involvement and for your wonderful example to your children.

Here are this week's happenings:

1)  Your child needs to bring his/her trip pictures and trip journal to school tomorrow.  We will be using these throughout the week.


2)  Vertical Schedule begins again tomorrow.


3)  Conferences are this Thursday.  I will remind your child of you assigned time slot tomorrow.  Please don't be late since these conferences are planned one right after another.

4)  This week's Homework Menu is now available for you to print off.  The spelling assignment is due Friday, but the bare book assignment is due next week.

5)  Our kids are doing great overall on their timed math drills!  Our goal is for all kids to meet the 5-minute math goals before Winter Break.  This means that if your child has not yet mastered these skills yet, your child needs to spend the next 3 weeks really focusing on practicing and memorizing these facts.  I have place some printable drills on my website for easy access.

6)  Your child should be working on his/her 12th book this week.  As a class, we have now read 244 books so far this year!  Incredible!!

7)  Your child needs to post a response on the class blog by Sunday.