Hello everyone!  I am happy to announce that this is the last week before our big break!  So exciting.  Let me start out by telling you how grateful I am for all of you.  Thank you for supporting your children, the way that you all do.  Thank you for supporting me and the school, the way that you all do.  Please keep it up!  Also, if you ever have an issue or anything you would like to tell me, please feel free to come and talk to me any time.  I do get a bit busy, after school, however, it doesn't mean that I don't think that you (or your issue) is important.  I hope that you all would feel like you could talk to me about anything.  Communicating effectively is the way that the OC likes to do stuff.  We like to promote problem solving by communicating with whoever it is that we have an issue with...this sets a good example for the kids too! I am excited to have this last week.  It will be a blast.  We will have a lot of party stuff going on and much learning still.  For the party stuff, I told the kids that they need to be completed with every bit of work 

that has been assigned up to the date that we are on.  Please help  

your student get caught up, by checking to see what they have due still. We will be making calls home to tell you, this week, too.  I would like to challenge all of you to take a step back, at anytime in my class, and look for learning happening.  If you are having a hard time finding it, let me know.  I will be more than happy to help you find it.  This is one of the most important aspects in teaching.  Is there learning going on?  If there isn't, then I need to change what I am doing.  Constant assessing and scrutinizing are how I need to direct my classroom environment, to best meet the needs of all the 

different learners in my class.  I am so impressed with my class.  

All of the kids are so talented and intelligent in their own special ways.

-On Friday, we will have a celebratory breakfast.  Look for a sign up sheet outside my class.

Alex