Happy New Year!

Greetings, wonderful 1st/2nd parents! I hope that you have enjoyed your Christmas! I also wish you a Happy New Year! Boy, am I missing our little explorers! It feels like forever since I have seen their sweet smiles! I can't wait to hear about their break! I am also looking forward to January and the important events coming up this month! Please read carefully as some events have been rescheduled. 

Important Dates:

Monday, January 2nd: NO SCHOOL

Friday, January 6th, RESCHEDULED Christmas Around-the-World Sing-a-Long Celebration! 

Parents are welcome to attend!  The singing and some readings will begin at 11:30, then lunch in the classrooms. Many of you volunteered to prepare or purchase food from around the world for this celebration. Please let me know if you are still able to do this, thank you so much! Our BOOK EXCHANGE will be moved to this afternoon as well. You may send your student with a new or used children's book in good condition. They will pick a different one to take home. Picture books are great, but chapter books are really great! Thank you!

Beginning Monday, January 9th: MAP, DIBELS, and Fountas and Pinnell Reading Assessments

Monday, January 16th: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, January 24th: OMSI field trip 

Thursday, January 26th: Half-Day, 6:30 pm: Open House

Friday, January 27th: NO SCHOOL, Teacher Work Day, end of 2nd quarter

In our first week back we will be reviewing our school routines and expectations and focusing on the topic of resolutions and goals, being the very best we can be! We will also learn about schools around the world and finish up our Christmas-Around-the-World studies!

1st Grade Reading:

2nd Grade Reading:

Math: In 1st-grade math, we will study related facts, fact-families, and missing addends. In 2nd-grade math, we will study 2-digit fact families. In writing, we will write about our goals for the new year and share these. We will begin studying the continent of Asia in Social Studies. In science, we will focus on things that move, seasons, and animal hibernation. We will finish our Bible study on Christmas, Mary and Joseph obeying God, and our memory verse will be the one we left off on before all of our snow days:

Recent Fun!:

We loved the chapel presentation! 

We practiced our Christmas songs! 

We did a fun STEM project in which students could only use a specific number of spice drops and toothpicks to construct the tallest Christmas tree. We discussed strategies and found that the base of our structures was important in determining the potential height of our structures.

Have a very Happy New Year!!! See you in 2017!