This week's news

As many of you may have heard, Mrs. Fornia taught the class today.  This is because Mrs. Fornia will be flying to Arizona on Friday and I will be working for her on that day.   We did a little switch....one of the great things about job shares, is that we try our best to be each others substitutes.   Mrs. Fornia will be flying to Arizona on Friday so that she can run in a marathon.   We will be rooting for you.  Go Mrs. Fornia!!

In other exciting news, we have a new student in our class.  Welcome Ariana!!   We are so delighted to get to know her.  Everyone in our room has been such a help and a great new friend to her.

Thank you for returning your conference sheets to us.   We will be finishing our master lists and sending them out later this week.   We are looking forward to meeting with each of you to discuss the progress of your child.

We finished our money unit and will begin our next unit.  We will alternate between Topic 6 and 7.. Both topics teach mental math. Topic 6 is mental addition and topic 7 is mental subtraction. 


Our School is holding a penny drive this month in honor of Carl Sandburg and Martin Luther King's birthdays.  Carl Sandburg won his first Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.   Hundreds of schools do penny drives in remembrance of Sandburg because of this biography and Lincoln's face on the penny.  To celebrate both Sandburg and Martin Luther King Jr.,.  we are  running a penny drive at Sandburg in January to raise money for biographies for our library on influential Americans.  

A few pictures for you too.....

Quietly reading just like they do every single morning for the first 20 or so minutes.   

 Working with the netbooks and getting faster and more skilled at doing a variety of things.  Here they are taking a survey about their computer knowledge.