12/17 – 12/21

We have made it to the last week of school for 2018! This year seemed to go super fast, and now I am going to have to start practicing writing 2019 🙂 It feels like I just got used to writing 2018. I hope this year has been good to your families and that 2019 brings even more happiness.

This week some students will be reading their Native American narratives and showing their dioramas to other classes. We studied each region, learned about the different Native groups, and then went to the Natural and Cultural History Museum. Hopefully, the rest of the school learns a little from us! We will also finish our salt dough maps of Oregon this week! We will be very, very busy.

Snowbody Like You started last week and our goal has been to recognize students showing 9 different character traits. For each yellow ticket handed out, we get to add a link to our snowman’s scarf and our school goal is to have the scarf go all the way around the school. We have almost competed this goal in the first week! I know that our class has been working on self-control, which can be especially hard when a break from school is fast approaching. On Friday, we will have a little celebration to recognize the effort all the students have made to make the last two weeks of school before the break more positive! I will be showing a video in class after first recess.

Lastly, I want to say a HUGE thank you to all of you! Our school raised almost $3,000 during the coin drive and half of that money will be going to Greenhill Humane Society and the other half will go to our library! It was so fun to watch kids bring in their coins, but even more amazing to see what they chose to donate it too! So, thank you agian!