Newsletter February 7-11

Today I sent home a list of the students in our classroom to help with your Valentine cards.  Remember that you must give a Valentine to every member of our class if you choose to do so. There are 23 children in our class.  We will be decorating our cans to put the Valentines in this Friday.  Thanks for those that have donated items to help decorate these cans.  You do not need  to send cans, but rather items that can help decorate them.  Items like foam hearts, doilies, stickers, ribbon etc.  Of course, this is voluntary, but anything would be appreciated. Please send any decorating items by Thursday.  We will be having our Valentine's Day Party on Monday, February 14 at 2:00.  Please have your child bring their cards that day for delivery.

Also, in your child's backpack is a residency questionnaire, and a flier on the "Dinosaur" display and music.  Our class has compiled a book of dinosaurs for display.  The books will be on display at the Heritage Center at 1:00.  Look over the flier if you are interested in attending the event.  Send the residency questionnaire back with your child.

Mr. Burton has asked that I inform you of Kindergarten registration.  East Elementary will be holding it's Kindergarten registration on March 15 starting at 11:00.  If you have a child that will be in Kindergarten next year, or know of anyone please let them know. 

Thanks for reading with your child.  I was pleased that we had more students turn in their reading records for January.  This is the time of year that reading really takes off, please don't halt their progression by failing to read with them at home.  Now your child should be reading to you for the 20 minutes not the other way around.

If your child receives "Challenge words" as part of their spelling test, they will not be receiving any this week.  Last week I took the challenge words out of the wrong folder. I did not catch this until it was too late to send them home.  They actually did really well considering they did not study them at all.

We've had a fun day!  Ask your child about tasting pickled beets (I promised them a taste last week when one of our spelling words was beet) and the commutative property of addition.

Calendar items:
February 7-11:  Ngalu is Star of the Week
February 10:  Orchestra of Southern Utah Assembly
February 11:  Celebrate McKenzie's Birthday
February 14-18:  Braxton is Star of the Week
February 14:  Valentine's Day Party at 2:00
February 18:  Celebrate Gavin's birthday
February 21:  President's Day Holiday
February 22-25:  Maverick is Star of the Week
February 22:  Celebrate Braxton's birthday (Feb. 20)
February 28-March4:  Raimee is Star of the Week
March 15:  Kindergarten registration 11:00-3:00