A very Happy New Year to all. Our school year seems to be flying. We are beginning our comunity projects this third quarter. We will be splitting students into their respective grade levels and working at different locations (4th– Senior Center, 5th– Food Bank, 6th– Riverside House). Students will be visiting these places once a week to work, learn, and interact with people in our community. This program will help students learn many valuable lessons; responsibility, compassion, citizenship, etc. If you would like to help out and attend please contact me. We will be going every Tuesday and Thursday from about 12-1:30pm.

Our writing focus for the third quarter is persuasive or opinion writing. We will also finish up our colonial/revolutionary war studies with a simulation. From there students will begin to learn about physiology, particularly human physiology.

We are going ahead with our field trip to Alyeska. We are going the week after spring break, date to be determined. There will be more sunlight by then and hopefully some snow!. We will certainly need help with chaperones. Please think about beginning to put some money aside for this trip and for our Peterson Bay trip at the end of the year. We will try and do some fund-raising for them, but both are costly.

Thanks so much for your support; this is a great group of students.