Greetings and Happy New Year. This is a wonderful time to thank God for all the things we have in our lives, especially our children. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and vacation. Thank you to all of you for the many gifts I received. I loved them all. It was very thoughtful of you and I appreciated them. Thank you to all who helped or sent food for the Christmas Party. And thank you for all of the food items for the "Spirit of Christmas" dinner.
The second quarter has ended and we are now beginning the 3rd quarter beginning Monday. Report cards will go home on Friday. This again is a great time to remind your children to always do their best work.
Dismissal will be 12:30 on Friday.
In curriculum we have started the 4th Reading series. The reader is a hardback book. Again, please do not go ahead with your child to read more stories. When your child has read the story before I have introduced it, the introduction to the story gets lost. Thank you for your cooperation. In Science we will be finishing up animals and will begin a unit on the weather. In Math we will start a new unit with math facts up to 18 and then continue with subtraction facts beginning with 18. In Social Studies we will be working on the United States. In Religion we will be discussing what happened after the birth of Jesus. In Spelling we will be working on short u words. We will no longer have challenge words but will have dictation. All words in the sentence must be correct in order to earn the extra point. That will include capitalization and punctuation. We will be practicing dictation this week. In P.E. we will finish up jump ropes and start a bean bag unit. Timed tests will be combining subtraction and addition facts to 12. Some students are not showing much improvement. Please work on this daily at home. I should see progress if you are working at home with flashcards.
JUST A FEW REMINDERS FOR THE NEW YEAR
Sign planners every night
Return homework the following day
Please check your child's homework before it is returned
Only OLM sweatshirts are allowed
Only the Dennis blue uniform sweater is allowed--no white sweaters
Any kind of jacket is allowed for outside wear
Review addition and subtraction facts
Review vocabulary words
Students should use the bathroom during their recess and lunch break
VOCABULARY WORDS
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
strange
whole
elephant
pillar
turn
agree
moral
great
Have a great week. Your child left their planner at school per my request. GOD LOVES YOU!
