Welcome back!  It was great to see the kids again, I miss them when we have these long holidays!

Congratulations to us all!  Channing Hall was in the top 10 schools in the state in the Jazz Reading contest!  That means we get a Utah Jazz player to come and do an assembly!  We also get a school-wide ice cream party!  I would like to particularly recognize the Half-Day Kindergarten classes, who combined read nearly 80,000 minutes!  Great job!!!  The Jazz player assembly will be held this Thursday (Feb. 28th) at 1:00 in the Channing Hall cafeteria.  I found out late this afternoon that the assembly where teachers keep their promises to their students (I get pies smashed in my face) will be held immediately following the Jazz player assembly.  Parents of AM students, PLEASE fell free to bring your students back to school at 1:00 for these events.  The AM class broke 50,000 minutes this year, and they deserve to see this stuff!

We start a new IB unit this week, all about community helpers.  your children will have the chance to again prepare and present an oral report.  However, this time the research will be done here at school, and a paper with your child's research and a rubric will be sent home.  More information on this as well as presentation times will be coming soon.  Children will choose a profession on their own to report on.  Because we want a variety of reports, there will only be one of each profession reported on in each class.


Believe it or not, we only have four weeks left in the third term!  Let's keep up with daily reading and sight word practice!