Room 15 kids will be starting new book clubs this week. Two of three groups will have nightly homework reading. Students from the third group (The Giraffe, the Pelly, and Me) will read the entire book in-class, but they’re expected to read at home for at least twenty to thirty minutes each night from a book of choice. We also hope to record our radio drama plays this week, which with any luck will appear on the Platy soon. In math, we’ll be continuing our work with multi-column multiplication. Here’s the math homework for this week: Monday, Jan. 12; Tuesday, Jan. 13; Wednesday, Jan. 14; Thursday, Jan. 15.

An important date upcoming is the Tree Plant field trip on Thursday, Feb. 5th. We need parents to serve as chaperones. Each chaperone will lead one small group of approximately five kids as they plant tree seedlings in the Josephine County forest property. It’s a marvelous trip. To see highlights from previous trips, click here.