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Week 28

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Greetings, I am assuming, like myself, most of you reading this are following the updates on the COVID-19 pandemic. After a great week leading up to our Spring Break, it hard to accept that we are on hold for  the students to return to school. I am sure by now,  most of you have been contacted by the district as they have rapidly been addressing this situation. It is my understanding that they are getting a food program in place, and teachers have been informed to prepare packets of schoolwork by March 27. This also means that Parent/Teacher conferences are on hold until further notice. I will making an effort to contact you all in the upcoming days. As for that wonderful week we had before break, here are a few photos. Due to the cold weather on the Wednesday we planned our sledding outing with the class "Book Buddies", we had to wait until Friday morning. Instead, we still got together and learned a little about the history and traditions of St. Patrick's Day. After

Week 27

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Weekly Greetings! Well, the cold weather seemed to continue to keep the students inside last week! Even though the actual temperature seemed to warm a bit, the wind chill put the actual temperature below minus 20. We have been trying to get creative during our PE time, and also when the K-4 used the gym during recesses, with more structured activities. Some students had never bowled before and learned during a PE rotation one day. They also had a choice of badminton and volleyball. This will be the last week of Quarter 3 and the current afternoon Pod classes. I have really enjoyed doing the Science Fair Preparation Pod, and now that the district Science Fair is done, we have been redoing some past experiments and making our own conclusions. Furthermore, we did some STEM activities, and followed direction to build some interesting projects. This week, we are still planning to go sledding on Wednesday with our kindergarten "Book Buddies". I am hoping it i