February 4th-8th

Hi family and friends,

I am excited to launch our new blog. I think this will be a great way for us to all keep in touch and for you to share Bay Park news with family and friends. This week has been a busy one for us, as usual. We started with Laura's birthday party. And we got to watch Ms Allison on The Ellen Degeneres show! We also learned about Groundhog Day and Chinese Lunar New Year. Our week ended with P.E. and a visit to our 3rd grade buddies.

Mr. T introduced a new Character Trait for February: Honesty.

In Math we are learning about numbers 21-30. One activity we did was counting and graphing our Box Tops. We set a classoom goal of 155 Box Tops which should be an easy goal to meet since we already have 75 of them. Keep sending in those BTs! In Language Arts we have begun working on finding the Beginning, Middle and End of stories. We are creating our own books summarizing these three parts of a story.

Today we learned how to use a fun new tool to write and publish books. We will continue to create and publish books together until we are experienced enough to create them on our own. You can view our new book by clicking on the title: The Bug Book by by Room 12
You may need to download a free version of Flash

Here are the latest Run Club tallies:

Charlie: 130 laps
Derek: 110 laps
Evan: 140 laps
Kyle: 100 laps
Rachel: 140 laps
Vanessa: 80 laps (on her way towards her second goal of 10 miles!)

100th Day News:
Don't forget-our collections of 100 items are due next Thursday. We have had a great response to the volunteer request for that day but could still use a few extra hands, if you are available to help please let me know.

Library Books due Tuesday!

The Valentine's Day Student Store will be open next Wednesday after school. You can previw items in the display case outside of the office.

No school Friday 2/15 or Monday 2/18!

Enjoy the holiday weekend.