Jan. 17

I hope you all had a nice long weekend. I sure enjoyed the extra day to get caught up on life.  I attended a training today for all the second grade teachers in the district. I learned some great things and can’t wait to implement them into our classroom. I hope your children survived with the sub.

We had a wonderful week last week. It was good to finally be settled back into the swing of things. Our classroom has just had a really great feeling in it lately. Last week we had several people that work in our school come in and tell us about their jobs. We ended up writing them all very large “thank you” notes and delivered them around the school on Friday as a part of our party. The kids loved it and so did the staff.

Our Boxcar party was a hit last week. One student said, “This is the best day of my life!”.  That pretty much made my week. Thank you for being a good sport and letting them haul pillows and blankets to school.

I hope you all received the rock assignment in the Monday folders today. Thank you for being willing to work on things at home. I think this will be a really fun thing to get them thinking as we begin learning about rocks in class. Feel free to bring them to school when you finish them.

I also wanted to make you aware of a little class change that we will be going into effect this week. Up until now we have had time for sharing every other Friday. It has been really fun, and they LOVE it, but I am feeling like there are more effective things we can be doing with our time at this point in the year. We may occasionally have times to share in the future, but it won’t be on a regular basis. I hope you can understand my reasoning.

A few things we will be working on this week

·      Contractions

·      Addition/subtraction story problems

·      Rocks

·      Acting out scenes from the Boxcar Children

·      Reading non-fiction text

Thank you for having wonderful kids! I hope you can tell that I love being with them everyday!

-Miss Jensen