Week 15

Weekly Greetings!

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, enjoying good food, family, and friends. Despite a short week, the class pressed on academically as we prepared for a second round of MAP testing this week. We will be testing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Please make sure your child is at school those days and has had a good night rest.

The class continued to work on the district writing assessment last week, and will complete it by this Friday's deadline. On Tuesday we did take a break from our usual writing time to start a Social Skills program with Mr. Dunning, the school councilor.  The video showed two unsuccessful ways students usually respond to conflict, but then a third way to help resolve the problem by "staying cool". I hope to get more information about the program to inform you on how to help support your child in this area. The councilor will not be available this week, but we should continue having sessions weekly when he returns.
There are just four more weeks before the end of the second quarter and Christmas break. Even though the days are getting colder, the students still go outside for recess daily. The cut off is below minus 20 degrees. Many of the students are not bringing proper cold weather gear and are coming back inside very cold. Please check to make sure your child has a warm coat, snow-pants, hat, gloves, and warm boots when they come to school each day.

I hope have a great week and stay warm!

Kind Regards,

Julie Brown


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