Welcome Back

Dear Families,

I hope you had a wonderful break! This has been a fine week and we are all getting back into the swing of things. Here is our week in review:

We have been studying time, practicing counting by fives in order to read analog clocks quickly, learning about the history of clocks. We discussed why we need a standard time system and imagined what might happen if everyone had a different system of telling time.

We have been writing poems and songs for our Goodbye Fry ceremony at Dabny SP Thursday, Jan.7 from10-11:30am. We read a storybook in ABCB rhyme format and then wrote the a class poem to tell the fry how we feel.

In PE, we did relays, practicing our dribbling, skipping and running.

In gorge studies, we began organizing our Naturalist notebooks, decorating dividers for the salmon, plants, mammals, insects and birds sections, and putting the work we have done.

As for coming events, I hope to see many of you at our Learning in Depth Opening Ceremony, Tuesday, January 12th at 2:15 pm in the Corbett multipurpose building. Learning in depth is an Imaginative Education program. Each child is given a particular topic to learn about through her or his whole school career, in addition to the usual curriculum. Students will meet regularly with me to receive guidance, suggestions, and help as they build personal portfolios on their topics. The aim is that each child, by the end of her or his schooling, will have built genuine expertise about that topic. I am excited to launch this program alongside the charter school primary team and Mrs. Hanes.

Other notable dates include January 18, Martin Luther King Day, when we have no school, and January 22nd, which is a Friday school day.