Welcome, Adoo!

We welcomed a new member to our class last week and farewelled another one. Adoo joined us on Monday and we are so lucky to have her join our team. She was previously living in Ghana. Please welcome her if you see her in school! We said goodbye to our close friend Dongmin on Thursday. He will be leaving Dhaka to return to Korea and then on to a new location. We are very sad to see him go but wish him all the best in his next school.

Last Tuesday we celebrated the arrival of Maahir's sister, Elina! She came to visit our classroom with a delicious cake. Everyone was so excited to meet her!

This week we will continue our math unit on time. Today we used our bodies to tell time and worked with Ms. Preeti during learning centers on writing time to the hour in two different ways (analog and digital). Thanks for helping and encouraging your child to add a comment to our blog on clocks. For future comments on our blog, please keep in mind that the settings are such that I have to "approve" all comments before they appear. When you type in your message and click "comment", nothing will immediately happen. Kindly note that unless you get an error message, everything is working fine; you simply need to wait until I see that you've added something for it to show up on the blog. This setting is for safety reasons and we appreciate your understanding.

Reminders/Notices:

• We will have a class photo taken on Thursday, January 31. Please keep this in mind if you want your child to dress in anything special.
• Home extension activities are due every Sunday. Please remind your child to bring in his/her pouch on time so that we can prepare the next week's work.
• The folders the report cards came home in must be returned to school. Kindly sign the folder (making sure to add your child's name somewhere so we know it belongs to him/her) and return it as soon as possible.
• The students love using www.raz-kids.com at home and regularly talk about it in class. We have found this program really helps with reading fluency and comprehension, so please take a look at it if you haven't already.