January 11th News and Notes

Second Quarter Papers
Please look for Pizza Box Papers from the Second Quarter that are coming home in your child's folder on Friday evening.  These may be kept at home. 

January Scholastic Book Order
Also in the Friday folder, you will find a book order for the month of January.  If you wish to order this month, please complete and return to school with a check (made out to Scholastic) by Wednesday, January 16th.  Notice they sent another great coupon this month!

Religion
Memory Work for the Week of January 14th:

Tuesday (First and Second)
I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the Lord!"  Psalm 122:1

Thursday (First and Second)
God says, "I have called you by your name, you are Mine."  Isaiah 43:1

Friday (Second)
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."  Mark 16:15

Reading
Next week is unit test time!  This means we will not have regular Tuesday-Thursday night Reading homework.  Kids work hard on the unit tests all week during school time and do not begin a new story on these weeks.  Please take this opportunity to review all of the Unit Three vocabulary and sight words which can be found on the November 16th through January 4th News and Notes posts.

Spelling
Please look for the updated lists on Spelling City labeled as :"Unit Three Review".  Words for both classes this week are review words selected from lists throughout Unit Three.

First Grade Words:  make  game  like  mine  match  chin  note  cute 
Bonus Word:  school

Second Grade Words:  clerk  skirt  dear  where  farm  large  north  oar  stir  deer
Bonus Word:  remember

Sonic Superstars of the Week:
Since our Sonic certificates have expired, we are currently looking for a prize to give our students for good work in our classrooms each week.  If you know of a business that may offer something that would work for this, please let me know!

Next Week's Book Nook Author:
Jan Brett

Thanks for all that you do!  Have a nice weekend and week ahead!

Mrs. Bradshaw
kbradshaw@stjohnshannibal.org