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Dear families,

    The Olympics are just around the corner and we are gearing up for it in Learning Lane!  We have several special events planned for your child and wanted to share the excitement with you.

     *Opening Ceremony-Children are encouraged to wear read, white, and blue on Monday, January 13th.  We will come together as a community to kick off the learning!  We will show the children a torch, a podium, listen to the Olympic song and our national anthem.

     *Weekly Lessons and Crafts- Each early release Monday, we will introduce children to an Olympic athlete.  They will receive a short non fiction piece about a selected athlete.  After it is read as a class, children will see a short video clip of the event that the athlete participates in.  Last, children will complete an Olympic related craft activity.

     *Olympic Reading- Children will be competing as a class to earn gold medals' in reading.  We are asking children to keep track of their reading (reading to someone or someone reading to them) at home in increments of 10 minutes.  For each 10 minutes that you read, s/he will earn a tally mark in the classroom.  For each 100 minutes that your child reads, s/he will earn a token in the classroom.  When the class has reached 1,000 tally marks, they will earn a medal on our graph in the hallway.

     *Geography/Current Events- We will be posting a map of the United States in the hallway.  Please encourage your child to look for articles on Olympic athletes on line or in the newspaper.  Clip the articles and send them into school.  The article will be placed near the map and a string will link the article to the athletes home state!

      *Olympic- At this time, we are still in the initial planning phase, but we are hoping to hold our own Learning Lane Olympics on the last early release day.  We are looking into kid friendly competitions for everyone to participate in!  Volunteers for this day would be welcomed!!!

We hope that your child will enjoy these special activities, we are certainly having fun planning them!  Please call or email us here at school if you have any questions!

Mrs. Flanagin

Ms. Johnson

Mrs. Saunders

Mrs. Scorza

Mrs. Shanks

Ms. Shea