End of January/February Important Info

Here are some upcoming important dates for the end of January into February!

January

22nd - Mid Trimester Ends

25th - Early Release Day

29th - Mid Trimester Reports Go Home

February

1st - Early Release Day

8th - Early Release Day

12th - Valentine's Day Celebration (More info to come)

13th-21st - Winter Break - No school

22nd - Early Release Day

29th - Early Release Day

Arctic Animals

Starting this Monday during early release days we will be starting to study nonfiction and fiction texts around Arctic animals.  This will be done as a Learning Lane, multi age grouping activity.  Each grade level in Learning Lane will be studying a different animal.  In the kindergarten classroom's they will be learning about seals.  In the 1st grade classroom they will be learning about polar bears, and in the 2nd grade rooms they will be learning about penguins.  In the classrooms working on nonfiction text students will learn about the different parts of a nonfiction book, and then they will reach passages to learn about that Arctic animal.  In the other classrooms they will be learning about the different parts of fiction text, such as the characters, setting, problem, and solution.  They will also be doing a special activity to go along with that Arctic animal.  Everyone is very excited about learning about this amazing Arctic animals!

BRRR It's Winter

As the temperatures drop and winter really settles in please make sure to send your child to school with their winter gear.  Most days we will be going outside, as long as the temperature permits.  In order for us to allow students to play in the snow we need them to have the proper clothing.  Students are expected to wear boots, snow pants, a winter coat, mittens, and a hat/head warmer.  Also, sometimes their clothes get wet while having all that fun in the snow.  Please send your child in with an extra pair of socks and an extra sweatshirt.  Thank you for helping us have winter fun!!

Christmas Celebrations!!

The last week of school was extremely busy.  The excitement of the week was kicked off with our very special and fun Christmas concert.  Everyone was so very excited to dress up and perform for their families!  Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for that very special moment!

Everyone is so excited

Do you hear those Jingle Bells?

Snow is falling

To close out our week together we finished it with a PJ day, gingerbread decorating, and a movie and popcorn.  Our week was a lot of fun, thank you to everyone who donated yummy treats to help make our celebration possible.

Decorating our cookies according to
our Glyph questions

Looking Good!

Looking ready to eat

Can't wait to each that yummy gingerbread

PJ's and gingerbread, what a fun day!

Gingerbread Loose in Learning Lane!

Over the last week of school before break Learning Lane did a week of Gingerbread themed activities.  To kick off the week Learning Lane had a meeting to explain how the switches would be organized by each classroom in Learning Lane, and how it would be in a multi age group of k-2 students.  Then, we read the original Gingerbread story.

Mrs. Flanagin reading the original Gingerbread
 story to Learning Lane students

Each classroom in Learning Lane read a different version on the Gingerbread man.  Students traveled to each room with a gingerbread book.  In this book they were to draw or write their favorite part of the story that was read in that classroom. Then, students received an item to glue onto the cover of their book to remind them of that story.  Also, students were able to do an activity that went along with the story in that room.
At the end of the week Learning Lane met again as a whole group to compare and contrast the stories that were read over the week.  It was a great learning opportunity for all grades!

Working together to fill in our
Gingerbread compare and contrast
chart!

Here are the Gingerbread Man books that we compared, contrasted, and enjoyed over the last week of school before break.