February 3-7

Word of the Week: It

Letter of the Week: W

# of the Week: 22

Book: The Food We Eat

Weekly: 

* Practice Edmark/personal info cards 2-3 times a week

* Give your child 2-3 weekly house chores: putting toys away, helping with laundry, putting dishes away, helping take out trash, etc.

* On early dismissal days, please send a snack (we still have a snack time)

* Students MUST have snowpants, snow boots, coat, gloves, and hat to play in the snow.

Upcoming dates:

2/4/14: 100^th Day, PJ Day

2/5/14: Early dismissal

2/7/14: Nerd Day

2/11/14: Book Fair day (students can bring $ to buy)

2/13/14: 11:35 dismissal, PT conf

2/14/14: No school: PT conf

2/17/14: No school: President’s Day

Reminders: 

Library: Thursday mornings

New PE time starts on 2/4

Miss Vahle gone @ conference on 2/12/14

Happy New Year!!  Welcome to the 2014 part of the school year!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and break!

Today, Staley Da Bear from the Chicago Bears came to school to talk about bullying.  It was a great assembly and the students had a great time!

Mall Trip

Friday, December 13th was our annual Life Skills trip to the Joliet Mall.  TRAILS, STEPS, and PATH all did their Christmas shopping.  I believe this was the 4th mall trip and I dare say it was one of the best trips!  The kids and teachers had a WONDERFUL time!

The Grinch

I found this super cute Grinch writing activity on Pinterest over the weekend, and I was super excited for the kids to make their Grinch and write what they would do to make the Grinch laugh.  Here are two examples:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Before we left for break, we read a Scholastic News about how wild turkeys are coming into towns/cities because their forests are being cut down.  The vocab words "tom," "hen," and "poult" were in the news.  The kids learned that a "tom" is a male turkey, "hen" is a female turkey, and "poult" is a baby turkey.  One of my students really enjoyed this article, because he made a family of turkeys to decorate our classroom.  He was able to tell me which was the tom, hen, and poult.  I loved that he was so excited about what he learned, that he went home and made his own turkeys! :)

Mrs. Carlson passed this along to the teachers the other day and I thought I would share it.  It's great advice from a great kid! :)

http://ht.ly/rcD1k

Bowling and Morris Diner

Our TRAILS, STEPS, and PATH bowling and diner trip was a great success!  Bowling was a great activity and lunch was yummo!  I was very proud of my students on our trip: good listening, ordering lunch, paying for bowling/lunch, and following bus rules.  I think a great time was had by all! :)

I have some good bowlers!!!