Week of January 9th, 2012

Hi Parents:

We have a LOT going on... some of it new and exciting!
The spelling words for this week are as follows:

1.kitten
2.frog
3.dog
4.fish
5.pet
6.puppy
7.cow
8.lamb
9.horse
10.bird
11.snake
12.turtle

UPCOMING events:

Jan. 16th MLK Birthday - NO School
Jan. 23 100th Day of School WE will be wearing PJ's this day and having a lot of fun activities planned!!!
Jan. 24, skate country night
Jan. 30th Valentine Gram's go on sale
***Talent Show sign up's at the front office. You must give your permission in order for your child to participate!

Feb. 1 - dress down day $1
Feb 3 - end of mid-quarter
Feb 6-10 Love of Reading Week!!
Feb 8th Special dress down day $1 for the new character program
Feb 14th VALENTINE's Day - We WILL exchange Valentine's and have a small party if you wish to send in snacks or treats.
Feb 22 - Grandparents Day for K - 3rd grade You can wear your favorite western wear, jeans, and cowboy boots!
Feb 23-24 NO School Rodeo Break
Feb 23-26 Rodeo Carnival at the Lakeside campus
March 2- Dr. Seuss Birthday!! More details to follow

We have been HARD at work becoming budding scientists and learning about habitats. Our first one was the rain forest with emphasis on South America. We are learning about all the problems with the rain forest and how plants and wildlife are in danger due to many practices being done to the land there. We are going to be putting up some interesting facts and urging students to get involved to save the rain forest. I'm not 100% sure that the blogger will allow live video clips, but at the very least I will be posting still pictures and the facts each learning group has researched on a still format on the blog, and then trying to get it into iMovie later to set up a link so it can be accessed via email or some other format.

It was a steep learning curve when we broke into 6 learning groups with each group COOPERATIVELY deciding which animal/ rain forest facts to pick, and then draw the one selected on paper. We will continue to research ways to post our findings and report our fun science activities and experiments for the remainder of the school year!

P.S. As the "news flash" flyer suggested, it is a great idea to bookmark this blog so that you can refer to it often and check dates, spelling words and other information you may have missed!!