Thanks for dressing your child for the weather! We went out for morning and lunch recess, but the kids were so wet that we stayed in for afternoon recess and watched the movie "The Snowy Day."

In your Monday envelope there was a scarecrow picture. Please decorate it with items found around the house and return it to school so we can hang them in the hall as a decoration. For example, if you have a few spare buttons, you could glue them on for the eyes. Yarn could become hair. Use your imagination and have fun with it. It's great fun to see all the different ideas.

I updated the calendar on the class web site to include some of the upcoming events that were in the school newsletter. We worked on rhyming today, so for writer's workshop, students drew pictures of two things that rhyme and they sounded out the spelling of those two things. I will save this as a form of assessment that I will show you at conference time. Another informal assessment I did today was to have students draw a repeating pattern in their math journals and circle the part that repeats. Most were successful.

Tomorrow is library day. Please return library books tomorrow. There have been painters in the library for several days, so students may or may not be able to check out books. I know Mrs. Waples will do what she can to accommodate our class. If you have a book order, please return it tomorrow, also. Have a great evening!