January and February News!

Hi everyone!


Thanks for checking in!  I can't believe we're wrapping up the month of January already! It seems like we just got back into the swing of things and we're already thinking ahead on what we'd like to accomplish between now and Family Break. 

Students have been super busy with our Jan Brett author study! We've done lots of neat activities with The Mitten and The Hat, and next week students will be starting another major writing project, where we will be writing our own version of The Mitten!

We're still waiting for a good snow fall for the students to be able to go tobogganing! All that fuss with those purple waiver forms....hopefully we'll actually get to go!!  In Science, we've kicked off our unit on Temperature (how fitting, with yesterdays 'lovely' snow fall!). I encourage you to have conversations with your child about the weather-  we try and look at the weather network's predictions every morning and afternoon.  Students will soon start some experiments with measuring temperature in and around the school. 

A reminder that we still need MANY drivers for our swimming day on Thursday February 2nd. We will leave MMH at about 12:30, to swim from 1-2, and then be back at MMH for about 2:30.  So far, I have Terra T. and Tony D. signed up to drive students. Please email me back asap to let me know how many students you can transport!  We need about 6 more drivers!

Our class will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Tuesday February 14th. Thanks to the following parents who signed up to bring treats. They are:

Fruit Tray- Zane

Veggie Tray with Dip- Rawley

Cheese, meat and crackers- Brooke. R.

Cookies, cupcakes or muffins- Elora Green

Juice boxes- Morgan

Plates and napkins- Aaron

When we learned about the Chinese New Year, our Grade 2B students had a BLAST with a website full of Tangram puzzles. I promised to put it on the blog-  Here it is if you have some free time:

http://games.ztor.com/tang/


Thanks! Have a marvelous weekend
-Anna Tsentouros


February Thursday February 2^nd- Happy Groundhog’s Day!
Thursday February 2^nd- Grade 2B swimming from 1-2pm
Tuesday February 7^th- Character Ed. Assembly & Family time
Thursday February 9th- Arctic Day!

Friday February 10^th- Staff Learning Day No school for students
Tuesday February 14^th- Spirit Assembly- Dress in Red!
Tuesday Feburary 14th- Happy Valentine’s Day & Class party!
Friday February 17^th- 100^th DAY OF SCHOOL!!
February 20^th- 24^th- Family Break- No school