Silence for Sandy Hook

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I can't believe how fast the first week back went, the kids are doing great.  We have 2 more weeks, then we are off for 3 weeks for Winter Break.  We will be making gingerbread houses on December 14 in the afternoon - a flyer will be coming home this week for donations. 

This next week, we will be working on reindeers, "Elf on the Shelf", working with a hundreds chart in Math, making groups of tens.  I will get sight word testing caught up this next week, thank you for being patient.

Another Picture

I am spending my days holding and loving this little guy.  I have been able to get a little bit of Christmas shopping done and house cleaning.  I miss you all.

 

Break

I hope everyone is enjoying their break and had a great, safe Halloween. 

I have been holding and spoiling this bundle for the last two weeks.  I love being a grandma.  Enjoy the rest of your vacation.  I miss you.

Grandson

Just a quick picture of my new grandson.  I will be posting pictures of our school pumpkins in the next few days.  Have a great break.

Bats, Bats, Bats

We have been working on Bats.  The kids made the cutest bats and we hung them in a cave on the outside bulletin board.  It is so cute to hear their reactions, every day, as they walk by the board.  We had lots of bat related activities to go along with the art project.

Some important news:

* Today, Thursday,  is the district wide disaster drill.  The kiddos will be out on the playground for about an hour.  A paper went home yesterday talking about it.

*  Parent conferences start tomorrow, 10/19.  Students get out of school at 12:19, tomorrow and all of next week.

*  We go off track on 10/26 and return the Monday - after Thanksgiving.

*  My new grand baby is due any day now.  If she doesn't have him this weekend - they will induce her on Monday night.

 

Assessments

Our Language Arts assessments are now finished.  It took a little longer than usual.  Part of the assessment is whole group and the other part is individual.  It takes awhile to test all 29 students.   Overall, the kids did great.  This week we start our Math District Assessment, which is whole group.  I will, probably, not get to do sight word testing for a few days.  Thank you for being patient.  Your kids rock.