Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great winter break. Congratulations to the students who completed their hot cocoa and cookie party challenge! We gathered all the students into the commons and they got to enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and some cookies. I could tell they had a blast! Thank you parents for working with your child at home. When you're reading at home, practice asking questions that will help your child reflect back on what they are reading. They will be taking their monthly ISIP this upcoming week in Mrs. Skalaban’s.

In math, we continued working on odd/even. We created monsters and had to determine if the number of body parts were odd or even. The kids had a fun time creating their monsters. Next week, we will start our unit on money. We will start with identifying and counting pennies and nickels. Parents, please review skip counting by 5’s and 10’s with your child at home. This will help when we are calculating and counting coins. Money is usually a hard concept to grasp in primary grades.

 In Mrs. Skalaban’s class, the kids worked on setting goals for 2017. They talked about what a new year’s resolutions is and they made some goals for themselves to set at home and for school.

So we won the attendance award for November + December!! We had 100% attendance 23 out of the 31 days. Because we won, Mrs. Cumming rewarded us with a popcorn/strawberry limeade party on Thursday. Keep up the good work! This month, we will be working towards winning a party for the class who has the least tardies.