Happy Friday. I hope everyone has a great long weekend and finds time to reflect about all of the great things Dr. King accomplished. We will talk more about him on Tuesday. Grandparents/Special Friends Day is Friday. If you have not sent in a photo yet, please do so asap. We are trying to make something special to give out on Friday. Any child who does not have anyone coming, will be paired up  with someone who does, and their Grandparent project will be sent home to be mailed. Don't forget it is a noon dismissal on Friday.
A great big Thank-you to Mrs. Ewert for coming to teach us about hedgehogs, read stories with hedgehogs in them and make a great corn muffin hedgehog snacks. What a great compliment party we had.

February 5th is our Field Trip to the Planetarium/Science Center in Saint Petersburg on 22nd Ave N. Please join us if you can. Due to limited space on the schoolbus, you will have to meet us there. Check your child's Homework Calendar for a reminder. We will be eating lunch at school that day before we go. Our tour at the Science Center is from 11:30-2:00p.m.
Our focus planet this week was Jupiter. Please ask me facts. We blended colors with cray-pas to make the gas giant. We used red glitter to make the great red spot. They are hung in the hall for preview. We also used our fingers to blend the colors. The books were confusing, because they all made Jupiter look red, orange, yellowish but it is a very cold planet. So we made the bands of Jupiter the colors we thought were appropriate. Each one of our Jupiter's is different.
Our How To books are published and in the hall. That is the first part of our non-fiction writing unit.
The Checking Progress for Unit 5 in Math was sent home today. The parent letter for Unit 6 will be sent home with the Homework Calendar on Tuesday. There will be 5 new word card words next week but no new word family phonics sounds. It is a review week of the long vowel sounds previously covered. Mainly all of the silent e rules except e, ee, and ea.
Please check the Conference Day schedule for Feb. 7th. Have a great weekend. We will!

Conference Day February 7th   Sign-up

 7:30a.m.   Beasley

 8:00a.m.   Rutledge

 8:30a.m.   Torres-Monclava

 9:00a.m.  Martin

 9:30a.m.   Hamblen

 10:00a.m.   Davis

 10:30a.m.   Evans

 11:00a.m.   Hasbun

 LUNCH

 1:00p.m.   Welborne

 1:30p.m.    Palmer

 2:30p.m.  Levitz

 3:00p.m.  Kennedy

 Other Days:

Tues. 1/21 7:15 a.m. Healey

Tues. 2/12 1:30 p.m. Imensek

Thanks

Gaye Whitecage