I hope that everyone had a wonderful Holiday break and were able to enjoy their time off with family and friends. It is hard to believe that we have already had 4 months of school and that in just as many more, it will be April and much warmer. Families, please remember that we are outside whenever the temperature allows us to be. That means that even when it is "cold", we need to dress for the weather and are outside. When the temperature is below 0 degrees including the windchill, we are inside. In one of my earlier blog posts, I reminded folks of dressing for the weather. If you need some extra warmer clothes, please let us know. On that, I want to thank Lou Rich and Innnovance for their donating warm clothes just for this reason prior to our Winter Break. Thank you Sue Berg and Cindy Dowd for the delivery (picture is coming), it was much appreciated.
At school in 2012, we are going to be developing parent education nights in all grades at least once over the next four months. Some, like our 1st grade, have developed more evenings as it is a district-wide program that all elementary buildings are involved with. They are called PIE (Parents Involved in Education). Yes, I think there will be pie too. Please look for information if you have a 1st grader. Our goal at Sibley continues to be ensuring that every student make appropriate individual growth gains as determined by earlier district assessments from the fall. Aimsweb benchmark testing will be given in January in reading for all students K-5. We will look at individual data and adjust accordingly should we find that growth is not where it should be. Student success requires that we work together to teach our children. We hope that you will continue to be involved and support the work done in the classroom at home. When we find that some students are further behind that we would like, this "togetherness" could not be more important. Together, let's make it a great 2012 for our kids.
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