Dear Parents,
Thank-you all so much for the very
generous gifts for Christmas. We trust that you all had a wonderful holiday
season and wish you all the best in the New Year.
We thought it might be helpful to
you to have a calendar of some events for planning.
1/9/12 Student
of the week will begin
1/13/12 Progress Reports
1/16/12 MLK Day – ½ day; Biography projects
due
1/25/12 Field trip to the Planetarium
2/3/12 100th Day of school
2/9/12 Field Trip – African Folktales at
the Carrboro Art Center
2/20-2/21 No school (as long as there have been no
snow days)
2/24/12 Report Cards
3/2/12 Half day for conferences; Biography
projects due
3/8/12 Field Trip – Tales from the Latino
World at the Carrboro Art Center
We will be sending home a letter
describing all of the activities involved in the Student of the Week. Here is a schedule of who the projected dates
for students of the different weeks. If there is some reason why the projected
week will not work for your family please let us know so changes can be made as
soon as possible.
1/9-1/13 Owen and Vanner
1/16-1/20 Santiago and Shaye
1/23-1/27 Aidan and Gabe
1/30-2/3 Graden and Wren
2/6-2/10 Adam and Meleena
2/13-2/17 Fei-Fei and Lena
2/29-3/2 Lily
3/5-3/9 Dylan and Leopold
3/12-3/16 Leo and Max
3/19-3/23 Carter and Colby
4/2-4/6 Julia and Nicholas
4/9-4/13 Gil and Helen
4/16-4/20 Caitlin and Jenna
4/23-4/27 Brendan and Coyt
4/30-5/4 Graylyn and Laura
5/7-5/11 Ella and Hannah
5/14-5/18 Collin and Wiley
5/21-5/25 Beckman and Ori
Biography projects: This will be a project which is primarily completed
at home. Each child will have a biography book and poster sent home. The book should be read with parents and then
the child should complete the poster. Please feel free to do more reading or
other research about the object of the biography. As every student has different abilities and
strengths, more or less help may be needed but it should primarily be the
student’s work.
On the day
that the projects are due, the students may dress up as the character or bring
in props to talk about the person about whom they have studied. Each child will
present the poster they have worked on and should be able to discuss the person
and be able to answer basic questions. (We intentionally scheduled this for a half
day so that parents may be more likely to be off and able to come in and
observe – we also thought it might be easier if students were dressed as the
character not to have to change for lunch/recess.
Finally-
Journal Prompts for January:
1/4/12 – My Winter Break
1/5/12 – My Favorite Foods
1/6/12 – Free Write
1/9/12 – This weekend I
______________
1/10/12 – My Favorite Thing
to do in Math
1/11/12 – Some Important
Things About Me (what makes you different from other people)
1/12/12 – Courage (MLK
related)
1/13/12 – Free Write
1/16/12 – This weekend I
______________
1/17/12 – Some Things I
Learned About MLK
1/18/12 – Some Healthy
Things I do
1/19/12 – A Job I’d Like to
do
1/20/12 – Free Write
1/23/12 – This weekend I
_______________
1/24/12 – My Room (using
describing words)
1/25/12 – My Favorite Book
Character
1/26/12 – Something I enjoy
in Winter
1/27/12 – Free Write
This information will also
be in the blog and we will send home a copy in the folders.
Happy New Year to each and every
one of you. Thanks so much for all that you do to help us out and make our jobs
easier!
Warmly and gratefully,
Bonnie, Elizabeth
and Heather
