Dear Families,
There is so much to do in these next two weeks before our February break! I know I will be seeing many of you over these next two weeks in conferences to discuss your child’s continua and progress in school. This is a great time to see where your child is at and make goals for the rest of the year.
This week students will be bringing in pictures, stickers or magazine cutouts to decorate their new writer’s notebooks. The students are very excited to begin using them in our writer’s workshop. We will begin decorating on Wednesday. I will take pictures of this fun process and put it on the website for viewing.
Speaking of the website, I have recently added pictures of the students’ Native American crafts. The students were very proud to share these with their classmates and have them displayed in the hallway. These crafts will come home before February break.
We have started our Arctic Unit and will be learning about this particular habitat, landforms, animals and the people who are native to this land. We will be going on a field trip this Thursday, the 4th to the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. We look forward to learning new information to take back with us to school. On Friday, February 5th we will have artist Kat Gillies in our classroom to instruct the students on creating Arctic animal sculptures. I had sent out a family email on Friday asking if parents were interested in volunteering with this project to let me know by this coming Thursday.
On February 11th, in the morning anytime between 9-10a.m. I would like to invite parents in to be part of a portfolio celebration. I would like you to have the opportunity to review your child’s portfolio with them. Inside these portfolios you will see pieces of writing, spelling, math and science observations. There will be another portfolio celebration at the end of the year to see even more growth. If you cannot make that time please let me know and we can try to work something else out.
Also on February 11th, in the afternoon there will be a Valentine Exchange in our classroom for any students interested. I have attached a class list so students can have valentines for each member of our class.
Happily Learning,
Chris Wentworth


















