The document is a newsletter from a teacher to parents summarizing upcoming events and updates from her classroom. It discusses upcoming testing dates in January, an end-of-marking period, a school play, and mid-winter break. It provides updates on completed and upcoming units in math, social studies, and science. It encourages parents to have their child practice math on Xtramath daily and notes the importance of labeling winter clothing with children's names.

1. The Picot Press January 11, 2013
Mrs. Picot
gpicot@phasd.us
Thomas Edison
984-6507 ext.2763
protopage.com/mrspicot
A New Year of Events
Jan. 16 – DIBELS testing (am)
Jan. 17 – Vision testing
Parents: Jan. 23 – Magic Bully assembly
It was so good to see everyone again after
Jan. 25 – Records’ Day—no school for kids
our long vacation. Our reentry was pretty
Jan. 25 – End of first marking period
good and now that we have a week under our
Feb. 1—Best Buy movie—6pm
belts we are back in the groove.
We are finishing up our math unit this Feb. 8—School Play at PHN
week on geometry. The next unit is on Feb. 15-18—Mid-winter break
addition and subtraction word problems.
Also we are finishing up our social studies
unit on the natural resources of Michigan and
will move on to a Science unit.
Our personal narratives are almost done
and ready to be shared with the class.
We don’t give too much time to cursive,
but I still think it’s important for the
children to learn how to write in cursive and
to be able to read cursive. So we are almost
done with the lower case and will soon start
the upper case letters.
Great job on all the minutes read for
December BOOK-IT!
Jonah experiences snow for the first time.
Notes from the Teacher
. I would like to encourage everyone in the class to work on Xtramath each night if possible.
We are making progress but repeated practice will be a great help. I receive an email
every Monday morning that tells me who practiced and how they did. Many weeks the only
practice that’s done is we have some extra computer time in the lab.
Thanks for your help with this.
Snow Clothes
Playing in the snow at recess is great fun and your children are well outfitted with the proper
clothes. For those who did not have their name in their snow pants I let them use a Sharpie to do
write their name. It would help if other clothes and boots could be marked too. It’s amazing the
things that are left behind that belong to “no one.”