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Here are the last two newsletters from room #12. I forgot to put the September 21st newsletter up, so I thought I would add it this week. Happy reading! Newsletter sept21.doc Newsletter sept28.doc

We are headed to Standard Sand in Grand Haven tomorrow. Please remind your child to bring a sack lunch and to wear socks and shoes. Our class is divided into two trips tomorrow. One in the AM and one in the PM. Check out their website: Standard Sand

We had a good day today. We wanted to show you some sorting that we worked on in our word study lesson today. Ask your child about all the ways that you can make the /k/ sound. The English language is SO interesting and fun to explore. We also had a great time...

One of the experiments we conducted at Hoffmaster on Wednesday was pulling magnetite out of the sand. It is black specked mineral that you can find in sand. To pull it out, we used magets. We took a couple of videos...check them out! Just click on the links below......

What a great day we had today at P.J. HoffmasterState Park! I have included so many pictures for you all to look at... We spent time with Mr. Peterson from the DNR and he shared some very interesting and fascinating facts about our dunes. We spent time checking out some animals...

We are off on another trip tomorrow. We are headed to Hoffmaster State Park to study the dunes and explore the question: Should the sand dunes be off limits for sand mining? We will leave school at 10:00 and return around 1:30. Everyone going with us needs a sack lunch....

Here is our first newsletter of the year. Enjoy and happy reading! Newsletter sept10.doc

I had to share this... Here we are at Dune Day! We are looking good, aren't we?

Many students in the class have expressed that they like to play "video" games after school or watch some TV. I would like to give an alternative to doing those things, but promise that what I am offering can be just as fun! Our focus is going to be multiplication and place value...

Make sure you come and check out Holmes Elementary and our classroom on Thursday, September 13 from 6:00-7:00 ! We look forward to seeing you!

What a wonderful day we had! After some weather that did not cooperate last Friday... We took a chance and headed out today to North Shore Beach. It was FUN! We had wonderful drivers and helpers at the beach. We could not have done it without them. The kids went on dune...

Can you believe that we are back to school already? Where did the summer go? I have to say that we are having a great time in fourth grade at Holmes school. All of the students, parents, and other teachers have made me feel so welcome. What a great place to be! Here are some pictures of the...

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