Welcome Back!

Hi Families! 

 I hope you had a great long weekend. It's been so great getting back to school and continuing our learning this morning. The dragonflies have been blowing me away with their deep thinking and risk taking! It is so evident that we are heading into our second half of first grade! We have some very exciting times ahead and I wanted to first give you some reminders for some events in the near future. 

Our field trip to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is this Thursday, January 23rd. If you are chaperoning please meet us in Concord at 10:00! If you marked that your child needed a bag lunch on the permission slip form, they are all set! Please pack a lunch for your child if you did not mark that they needed one on the permission slip. We are very excited for this trip and love making memories like this together! 

We have a "Save the Koalas" first grade market happening February 6th at 8:30am. This is a time for you to come into our classroom and make purchases (everything is 1 dollar each) of some finely made hand goods- ofcourse created by the dragonflies! We will be donating all that we make in our market to help the Koalas who are trying to survive in fire-ravaged Australia. Last year first graders raised $2,300 for the Georgie Badiel Foundation that helps provide clean water to people in need. We are so excited to give back and make a difference in our world. We would love for you to join us on this day and purchase our goods! Other donations are also welcome! 

Report Cards will be coming home this coming Monday. Report cards will look different from last year's and are much more informative! We are excited to launch these report cards electronically and I can't wait to share with you the growth I have seen in all of these amazing learners. As always, when something is new, we are working hard to learn this new system and are very excited to have a new way to report out to you all that is going on in our learning! 

I hope your week is off to a great week like ours! 😁