Greetings & Welcome Back!

I hope the Winter Break gave you time to get your batteries recharged and spend time with your loved ones. Now it's time to plunge on into the new year!

First of all, here are some "odds & ends" you should be aware of:

• There is NO late start on Wednesday,January 5th.
• There is NO school on Monday, January 18th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• The quarter ends on Friday, January 29th.
• The last day to turn in missing assignments and extra credit to me is Friday, January 22nd.
• In Reading, we are finishing up the House on Hackman's Hill unit. As soon as that is completed we will start working on our Biography project.
• In Language Arts, your student should have turned in his/her Suspense Story; we have finished that unit and will now be working on a Parts of Speech unit during January.
• The first quiz on Nouns & Pronouns will be on Friday, Jan. 8th. Please help your student study for this.
  
• In Science, we have finished up the Mixtures & Solutions unit and have begun on the Microscopes unit.
• There will be a quiz on the parts of a microscope on Thursday, Jan. 7th. Please help your student study his/her information sheet on this.
  

Have an enjoyable week!
Michele Humble