Happy Pi Day!

Mrs. Marshall’s:

This is not set in stone, it is merely the schedule that we have made at the last teacher meeting, if these times don’t work for you please let me know and I will do everything I can to accommodate your schedule. You will also be getting a pink confirmation sheet today with the same time on it and extra room for comments.

Today we talked about the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The winter olympics has about half of the events that the regular summer olympics has, with the traditional sports like skiing and hockey, to the unusual like skeleton and curling.

Thanks so much to the parents and students for making this a tear-free Valentine’s Day. We still managed to squeeze in some learning between the parties and candy, and my students were amazing all day!

Today we talked about Martin Luther King, Jr. He spent his life advocating for equality between races, and paid for it with his life. My students didn’t really understand the idea of separating people by the color of their skin, something that was only removed fairly recently in our country’s history. We still have a long way to go.

Have you ever talked yourself through solving a problem? Well it turns out that the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology released a study showing that children who have imaginary friends can use the skills of having an inner dialogue later in life to solve complicated problems in the same way. Read more about it here.

No folders went home today because we didn’t have any important papers to send, so rest easy.