Today's field trip was wonderful. Sorry to those parents who wanted to volunteer but this field trip was teachers only, because it was filled with many schools and they had little room to accommodate everyone. Your students did wonderful today and I only needed to remind some students about their behavior. As you may already know we had an outbreak of lice in the classroom. I am happy to report that we are still lice free since last Thursday. The nurse came in last Thursday and checked all the students. Please continue to check your students the rest of this week and the weekend. If we are still lice free then I can unroll the carpets and possibly even take the bag off my cloth chair!!!!
We are currently on week 23 of our spelling tests. In math we are working with fractions. It is a rather difficult topic for many students to master. We are working on equivalent fractions and fractions of number (1/3 of 9). I have not given homework this week because students have not mastered the topic yet. In writing we just finished poetry and you can expect a poetry journal coming home soon. We are now working on fiction writing and your students are REALLY excited to write great imaginative stories. We are also writing friendly letters to our fifth grade students at Logan elementary.
Report cards went home on Monday. Please send the envelope back to school with your student, we need to use them for the end of the year report cards. I am currently working really hard to make sure that each of your students are ready for the transition to third grade. I am doing this both academically and behaviorally. One key topic that I am discussing with the students is how to persevere in school and in life it self. I am using many examples of how I needed to persevere in order to accomplish things in my life. As a school we identified this as a big goal for the rest of the year to concentrate on. Please talk to your student about perseverance and how it is very important in their lives.
