Weather Report!

The week of January 12 started out cold, but bearable. The book fair was in the elementary library and all was being prepared for a Thursday open house. Thursday classes were moved so the students could buy books on Thursday. Then came the snow, about 5 inches of the fine white stuff that blew across the prairie and the highways and lanes and just about shut down central Illinois. It did indeed shut down school. Then the temperatures started falling to below zero air temps that with the wind chills were below -20 degrees. Too cold to stand out and wait for school buses. No school on Thursday or Friday! We had just six days of school before we had a snow break for three days and then a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Fortunately, we were able to keep the book fair through January 23rd so we were able to buy some good books for our own libraries.

Back to School

We are bacik to school the week of January 5th and reviewing how to behave and talking about the book fair the next week (January 12-16).

Kindergarten read a wonderful story called My Penguin, Osbert that points out some of the downsides of getting a pet for Christmas.

First grade started a new series by author Cynthia Rylant. We read Mr. Putter and Tabby Walked the Dog. We were introduced to senior citizens Mr. Putter and Mrs. Teaberry who live next door to each other, and to their pets the fine cat, Tabby and good dog, Zeke.