HOOT#15

Welcome back to school!

Check us out in the paper!
Kinder and Miss Jutka were in last week's Taos News, thanks to TISA Talks' eager eighth-grade reporters, Alexis Salazar and Skylar Spriggs. Pond hockey, by the way, was all the rage during the break among the Taos Ice Tigers. Us, heroic hockey parents shoveled relentlessly until a giant patch of ice was uncovered for pick-up games and pirouettes on the pond in Des Montes, where Taos hockey started in the early '90s. Now that the ice got buried deep under some fresh powder, it's back to man-made ice.

Please welcome Samuel, the new student this week in class! We are all excited to meet our new friend.

Homework
Do on Monday (due on Tuesday):  Please practice winter gear skills (turning coat/sweatshirt rightside out, zipping, buttoning, putting gloves on).
Do on Tuesday (due on Wednesday): Can you help pair up and count socks/mittens/shoes/boots at home? How many mittens can you find? Socks? Does your family have more boots or more hats?
You can draw/make a picture/photo and write the numbers down.
Do on Wednesday (due on Thursday):  January DIBELS letter recognition and nonsense word sheets (hanging in pouch on classroom door)

Letter of the week:  R r
R: starts upper left (crooked start); slide, frog jump, swing to middle, kick/slant/diagonal
r: starts upper left in tunnel (crooked start); slide, climb, bend (remember not to lift hand when writing lowercase letters)

DIBELS testing will be happening between January 20 and January 29. Please refer to the DIBELS entry on our blog to familiarize yourself with the process. I will be assessing students on letter naming (goal: 60 per minute), first sound naming, reading three-letter nonsense words, and sounding out words.

FIELD TRIP!
Harwood Museum -- scheduled for January 19 (am).  Chaperons are welcome (gallery visit and monoprint workshop).

ART CLUB Schedule change:
The art club will be offered ONLY on Tuesdays beginning this week. We will be working with wool, starting with felting over rocks! If your child was in the Thursday section, you are welcome to switch to Tuesdays!