Tuesday, January 20, 2009

SOPG Weekly Update: January 19-23

Lots of things happening this week at your Susitna Optional Program!

Monday, January 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – No School

Tuesday, January 20 – Happy Inauguration Day!
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

In K/1 classes, parents and children will write in their journals and then transition to exploration time.

In 2/3 and 3/4 classes, children and parents will do one or two of the following activities:

  • Read with your child
  • Share student written stories
  • Write a story together
  • Do math activities
  • Play a literacy game
  • Play a math game
  • Play with pattern blocks
  • Play dominoes
  • Play word games
  • Finish math journal pages
  • Finish homework

9:30-10:30am – Inaugural Re-broadcast at Susitna – We’ll be enjoying a re-broadcast of the Presidential Inauguration in both the gym and the multi-purpose room.

Wednesday, January 21
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

Thursday, January 22
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

1:30-3:00pm – PACT: Parents and Children Together – Parents are invited to come help with a pre-planned art project in their child’s classroom.

Friday, January 23
8:50-9:15am – Optional Program Community Celebration - Come to Ingrid’s classroom to find out which student entry has been selected as the new Optional Program Song and to enjoy other songs, poems and readings from students.

11:30am-12:30pm – K/1 Learning Lunch – Come to Lucinda and Brittany’s K/1 classrooms to have your children share their second quarter learning with you and stay for lunch!

11:45am-12:30pm – Portfolio Share – Parents are invited to join their children in grades 2-5 classrooms as they share their second quarter learning portfolios.

2:15-3:00pm - Geography Bee - Come cheer on our Sustina children as they participate in this year's Geography Bee.

Have a great week and we’ll look forward to seeing you at school!

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