Announcements

            HAPPY Valentine's Day and Have Fun Celebrating Mardi Gras

   "Wild About Learning" continues as we begin the second half of the third 
quarter. It's February and we have much to look forward to in class. Our 
Valentine's celebration will be Tuesday, Feb. 14, from 2:15 - 3:15. Mardi 
Gras holidays follows the week of Feb. 20th.  Claybrook's Cool Cubs continue  
the hunt again for learning. In reading we begin with the story, "Boom Town" 
and will focus on compound words, sequence, and conpare/contrast skills.
   In math we are stil on the hunt for multiplication and division concepts. 
We need to increase our speed and accuracy of our facts from 1 to 12. After a 
week of researching famous African Americans and sharing our findings, we 
will return to science and study rocks and minerals. Ask your child how the 3 
types of rocks task and how they are different in real rocks. 
In writing we will revisit descriptive and narrative writing and practice 
both types in class.  In language we move on to pronouns. We are working on 
our individual art pieces for the Art Festival and will begin working on our 
Group Project soon.

Dates to remember:

Feb. 9  Class pictures. Cost is $10.00 and make a wonderful recorded memory 
for students.

Feb. 14 Valentine's Day celebration.  A class list went home on Feb. 6.

Feb. 20 - 24 Mardi Gras holidays - NO SCHOOL

Mar. 17 Art Festival

ART FESTIVAL HELPERS ARE WANTED.  PARENTS TO HELP IN THE CLASS AS STUDENTS 
WORK ON THEIR ART EXHIBIT AND WITH OUR CLASS PROJECT. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF 
AND WHEN YOU CAN HELP.  THANK YOU.  A $2.00 DONATION PER STUDENT IS BEING 
REQUESTED TO HELP WITH THE COST OF SUPPLIES FOR THE CLASS PROJECT WHICH WILL 
BE RAFFLED AT H.I.E.'S FIRST ART FESTIVAL ON MARCH 17.


Don't forget to read with your child every day and talk about the school day
too.