Thursday, December 9, 2010

Class Meeting

Reading groups were really successful today!  Reading logs were complete and everyone was engaged during discussions.   Thank you for helping read with your child (if you did).

Thursdays are a class meeting day.  We discussed an entry (in the class meeting log) about friendship forming and how some people are feeling excluded.   Friendship and acceptance is a key topic, especially because the feeling of "belonging" is quite powerful and transfers to how "ready" a student is to learn.  The quote this morning was "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."  We talked about it this morning; it's a good topic for a discussion at home, too.

Towards the end of the day after Spanish and reading groups everyone seemed pretty tired.  Please be sure your child gets lots of sleep especially during these last few days before the holidays.

Have a good night!

Homework for tonight is to:
1.  Read for thirty minutes
2.  Spelling