<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Reminders</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong>The green and white Ray  School folder will come home only on Fridays full of notes for you to read.  Please read and respond appropriately.  Send the folder back on Monday.  This is a good way to send lunch money as well.</p>

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	<li>The red folder will come home Monday with homework.  Please work on it a little bit at a time each day with your child and return in on Friday.</li>
	<li>Please send lunch/milk money for the week on Mondays.</li>
	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline">January is snack month for boys</span>.  Please send in a healthy snack, enough for 25 students.  We do have a peanut allergy so please be careful in choosing your snack.</li>
	<li>February will be snack month for girls.</li>
	<li>Ms. Travis Traveling Library books (in clear bag) come home on Wednesdays and should be returned Tuesdays.</li>
	<li>Library books (in the green bag) are chosen by the student and should be returned on Fridays.</li>
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Thank you to all the parents who have been volunteering this year.  You’ve been a great help!

Remember that school starts at 9:00.  A school wide “contest” has begun in which the class with the best on-time attendance will win a pizza party.  Let’s give it our best shot!

I’ve begun Mid-Year DIBELS (district mandated assessment) testing.  Reports will be sent home upon completion.  Also, please try to make sure students are in attendance this week as it is the last week of the quarter and I will be doing some last minute assessments.<strong></strong>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>This week</strong></p>

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	<li>In Math we will finish unit 4 by working on identifying characteristics of different shapes, recognizing a rule in pattern, solving number stories and exploring two digit numbers.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters and sounds.  We will work on high frequency/sigh words and building new words, using word families.  We will use shared reading to explore phonics and comprehension strategies.  We will continue to build stamina for reading to ourselves.  I will pull small reading groups to work on decoding and comprehension skills.  Students are creating letter books, practicing sounding out and writing words with particular beginning sounds.</li>
	<li>In Writing we will continue to discuss stretching words to write them and planning details for our stories.  Students will continue to tell those stories through drawing pictures and writing words, when they can.  They’ve been making “books” to illustrate and write stories with a beginning, middle and end.  We will continue to talk about beginning, middle and end.</li>
	<li>For Handwriting we will begin lower case letters with j,p,r, and n.</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue our unit on animals. We will compare guppies and goldfish and we begin observing land snails.</li>
	<li>Over the next few weeks we will be reading and studying about other famous African Americans as we prepare for African American History month.</li>
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<p style="text-align: center">Important Dates to Remember</p>

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	<li>No School Jan 29, Feb. 11, 12, 15</li>
	<li>Field Trip Feb. 4</li>
	<li>Report Cards sent home Feb. 5</li>
	<li>African American History Month Gallery      Walk-through Feb. 26</li>
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Have a Great Week!