Happy New Year everyone! I hope all of you enjoyed the Holidays.

Well, we have one more week before second quarter is over. The final progress report for seconds quarter will be sent home next Wednesday, Jan. 12th. The students will only have one day to get their make-up work in to qualify themselves for Worker's Holiday. Worker's Holiday will be Fri., Jan. 14th. We will be having a pajama day and a read-a-thon. I will be printing a missing assignments report today, so those students who are missing items, can get started on them right away. There will not be an after school class next Thursday, because I will not be at school that day, so if your child would like to come early in the morning Mon., Tues., or Wed. of next week, I would be more than happy to help them out then, if he/she needs the extra help.

I wanted to let you know that South will be having their Science Fair on April 1st this year. I know this is a couple of months away, but wanted to give you a heads up, so that you can start helping your child with an idea for his/her project. Permission slips for the Science Fair will be sent home on Tues., Feb. 22nd and will need to be returned on Fri., Feb. 25th. We will be handing parents the rules for the Science Fair at SEOP's.

With our subjects at this time, we are just starting a new unit in Science. The unit is on magnets and electricity. In Reading, we just finished the novel "My Side of the Mountain", and are now comparing the movie to the novel. In math students are learning Fractions. In S.S. students are learning about the Gold Rush. In Spelling we are on list #12. In Writing we are still practicing the 4 square with the 6 traits and in Grammar we are into learning about all the different verbs.

If your child is not keeping up on their Reading Revolutions, please help remind him/her to do that. The students should have a minimum of 4 books read at this point. I have many students that are way above that and then some that haven't turned in one, so check with your child to see how they are doing with this.

I have really enjoyed this group of students this year. They are all such cute kids. It will be hard to let them go.

Well, until next time take care and thanks so much for all of the help you give me and your child in our classroom.
Sincerely, Mrs. Little