This week we will be having a full week of classes. In the morning it is very chilly so please come to school with warm clothes as it is usually even cooler down by the river too.     In Math this week we will continue to count in a variety of ways from 0-100 forward and backwards.  We will use the number line and 100 chart to do this. Also we have learned last week about odd and even numbers and still need a bit of work in this area as well.  This week we will learn about money. The students need to know the name of each coin, the value of the coins and how to count money too. If you can work on this at home it will be a BIG help as it is usually a harder concept for them as they don't see money very often. THANKS!   We have been working hard on writing pen pal letters to Texas. We will have our third weekly Skype session on Thursday this week with our Buddies from Dallas, Texas.  They have warmer temperatures than we do and they didn't get snow on the weekend for sure. They were wondering if we were going to get snow and we told them we would let them know this week when we spoke with them.    Also we planted 49 Red Emperor Tulips last week at school as part of our learning experience with Texas and the rest of the world.  We will check on our tulip garden from time to time to see what we can observe and record the changes we see.  Texas told us that they didn't plant their tulips yet but they will soon put them in the freezer to fool them into thinking they are planted in the cold ground and later in January they will plant theirs in the ground too. I wonder who's tulips will bloom first?  Have a great week at school everyone and I can't wait to see what wonderful things we can accomplish this week!!