Happy Holidays

 Dear Families,

We had a terrific  week of school.  The students filled our ABS BeeHive so we celebrated by creating a mural with all the other classrooms at our school.  Ms. Nicole will hang paper representations of all the students in our lobby to greet us when we return from our holiday break.  The mural will represent all the similarities and differences we all have here at ABS, illustrating how we still belong to one learning community–together!

This week, we also had the pleasure to welcome some former students to ABS.  A group of 7th and 8th graders joined our classroom for reading time.  The students helped our second graders read books, practice their spelling and do different trick word stations.  Thank you Harbor House for visiting us!  We hope we will have many more opportunities like this in the near future.

Your child’s Home Folder is quite full today as the students cleaned out various learning spaces and folders.  Your child also packed a special Holiday Reading Log, which can be returned to school when school resumes again after the holidays.  We hope families will continue with daily reading practice at home even when school is not in session.  Your child also packed at-home access to computer coding.  Please keep this information accessible because it contains usernames and passwords.  If you run into technical problems or need these usernames/passwords again, please open an IT HelpDesk ticket (the link can be found on our school website portal).

I hope everyone will have a safe and relaxing holiday break.  See you in January!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Warm Regards,

Maria