Happy New Year!

  Welcome back!  I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday season.  Thanks again for all of the wonderful gifts.   Our class made a resolution that we would all be more organized in the New Year.  Students should be writing down all assignments in their agenda and they check them off when they are completed.  If your child completes all of their work at school, then they will not have any homework.  They should still have assignments written down in their agenda though. 

  In science right now we are finishing up our unit on light and sound.  Ask your students the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque.   In social studies, we will be learning about the birth of the United States and the Revolutionary War.   In Language Arts, we will be reading and writing informational texts.  The students will be assigned a Revolutionary War era event or person to write a report on.  In math, we are beginning our unit on fractions.   

  The school-wide spelling bee will be this Friday (Jan. 11) at 8:30.  Our class representative is Taylor.  Good luck Taylor!!

  Conferences will begin January 22.  A letter will go home with your student this week with your conference time.  If you have more than one student at Dowell, we worked together to make sure your conferences are back-to-back.

  There will be NO PTA this month.  The technology night has been rescheduled for April.

  This Week's Specials

Tuesday - Science Lab

Wednesday - PE

Thursday - Computer Lab

Friday - Art

Dates to Remember

January 11 -  School wide Spelling Bee

January 21 - MLK Day  No School

January 22 - 28  - Conference week    12:20 dismissal