Dear Parents:

       Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful, peace

filled, enjoyable holiday rich with family and friends.

        We have enthusiastically jumped into the New Year.

The second graders will begin a novel study next week. The girls are reading the book, A Hundred Dresses and the boys will be reading, Balto. Both stories deal with making good choices and the important life lessons learned from those choices. We will be in small groups exploring character development, plot sequence, new vocabulary and cause and effect. The students will learn how to use a graphic organizer and sequence maps. We will finish with an activity choice to culminate the unit.

      In third grade we are working on parts of speech and spelling patterns. For the next couple of weeks we will  

learn and understand how to use prefixes and suffixes.

The new science unit is about weather and the water cycle. The students will use hands-on experiments and observations to learn about condensation, precipitation, cloud formations, wind and climate.

     Fourth grade groups are working on specific skill building activities in reading and language arts. The groups change depending on the skill needing to be reviewed. In Social Studies the students are learning to make inferences from stories about the American Revolution. Making inferences is a skill used to make logical predictions and judgments based on the material given.

      So, may the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope (Romans 15:113) as we go into the wonderful New Year.

“Another fresh new year is here

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt, and fear

To love and laugh and give!

                                               Have a peace filled New Year

                                                       Mrs. Cheryl Haney