January 28, 2009
Dear families,
Hello and Happy Snow! The students are really focused this week and have been doing great work! Some things we‘ve been working on:
 Learning about decimals using decimal cards and playing decimal bingo. Ask your child what we need to remember when saying decimal names!

 Revising our reading group book summaries

 Thinking about how we are going to organize our Responses to Literature and how we are going to structure our writing piece.

 Finding rivers, roads, towns, and tourist attractions on our Vermont maps
**IMPORTANT **A Vermont map project assignment will be coming home today
(Wednesday). Students will have an outline of expectations and a rubric. Additionally, they all have VT maps and reading packets with the necessary information. Contact me with any questions or concerns.

 Our last team time of this rotation was Wednesday. The next session will start after February break.

 We are also working with Mrs. Southworth in music on a musical that will go along with our VT history studies. Ask your child about it!

Upcoming Events and Important Dates:
• TFK Friday – we need additional parents to sign up to bring in a snack. Please let myself or Alice Brown know if you can bring in a snack this week or next week. THANKS!
• 1/29/09 Local Foods Winter Art Show 6-7 p.m. - The walls of the art wing, library and lobby will be filled with art work of garden pictures, pumpkins and other produce. Invitations to the show are going home to families. There will be a great selection of local food along with the art show!
• Two of our classmates will be published in local publications! Congratulations to Hadley and Calvin whose great articles about the Shelburne Little League program were chosen to be printed. Hadley’s article can be found in this Thursday’s Shelburne News, and Calvin’s will be in February’s school newsletter. Thank you to Maryann Sheahan for her help with this project.
• Winterfest at Shelburne Farms- Saturday 1/31 12-3
• NAEP testing - for 4th graders, Tuesday, Feb 3rd 8:30-10 a.m.
• Parenting workshop – Thursday Feb 5th – 6:30-8:30 pm. Sponsored by the PTO
• Book Fair – February 9-13.
• American Library Association announces literary award winners
Stay in touch
Cara 