JANUARY 12

I am fully recuperated from my last bout of "viral" problems! It certainly takes a lot out of me when it lasts days. That's the third bout of sickness I've had since the middle of August, and I am NOT a patient patient - too much to do. Like everyone else I haven't the time to be sick :-)

This week is our story "Jamaica Louise James". Our skills are vowel pairs ee, ea, and endings
-tion, and -ture. Our new words are believe, whole, and lady.

We are working on money in Math. Some of the kids are having a hard time counting coins. Today we worked on finding an amount using the fewest coins. They can get how to make an amount, but to do so using the fewest coins is hard for some. If you get a chance, practice with your child using real money. We will keep working on it here, too.

We are working on our January quilt squares. The story is "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs. I wanted to get the book, but it's been checked out at the Vaughn, so I got a video. It is a "wordless" book/story which was different for the kids! It's about a boy who builds a snowman, watches it come to life, then joins it on a magical adventure.

In Science, we're learning about the parts of plants.

Good news! Mr. Bell said they are going to order Social Studies books for us!!!! Hooray! It has been difficult for all the kids to see because we've just had one big book. It will be great for the kids to have their own books!

We have received our laminated world and U.S. maps which we were able to purchase with money donated by friends and family of one of our students! We also purchased some other language art materials and will have a few dollars left to buy more art materials when we need them. We are appreciative of these monetary donations!

HAPPY 2009!