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News From The Jungle

We had a great first week of full days. Next week will still be a bit of an adjustment for the children as it is a 5-day week of full days.

There are lots of items coming home on Monday. Please be sure to check your child’s folder as there will be important notes such as, a class t-shirt order, the communication log for the week (please keep in the folder all week), homework, and information about open house. The children will also be bringing home their math workbooks. These books are to be kept at home always. It is extra practice to be done at home. A second math homework book will be sent home later this year. The math workbook has a note attached to the front cover with a schedule of which modules to complete for each month.

Homework will be coming home on Monday. The children will have homework each week. It will be a half page to complete each day. I will collect homework on Fridays.

Upcoming Events

9/12 Open House 6:00 – 7:30 pm

(This is a chance for your child to give you a tour of the room)

9/13 Class T-shirt Money Due

9/19 Scholastic Book Order Due

(Note and catalog coming home next week! ORDER ONLINE ONLY)

9/20 Half Day – 11:40am

9/25 Late Start – arrival at 9:35am. School starts 9:40am.

9/27 No school for Kindergarten students ONLY!!!

Agenda for the Week

We continued focusing on learning the rules of the classroom and school. We also spent a lot of time learning different procedures such as how to walk in the hallway, how to transition from tables to carpet, and much more! The children are hard at work trying to be the best class in the school by following directions and setting good examples for others. Please remind your child about being a good listener and rule follower while at school.

We read many books this week and began learning the parts of the book. We also worked on activities related to the books we read. The children practiced their names and will continue to practice writing their names next week. Some of the children already know how to write their names, however they are writing their name in all uppercase letters. Please work with your children at home on writing the first letter as an uppercase letter and the rest of the letters lowercase.

Next week, we will be diving into our curriculum and practicing letters, letter sounds, Daily 5, and beginning our math curriculum. Please make sure the children are well rested and ready to be learners next week as our days will be very full.

I am working on assessing letters, letter sounds, and much more. We also took our first round of NWEA testing. We will continue completing this testing next week. Once we have completed testing, we will be working on creating small groups based on the skills each child needs help progressing in.

I am getting the materials ready to send home for our reading eggs and math seeds passwords as well as our RAZ-kids accounts. RAZ-kids will be the exact same username and password as reading eggs. Thank you for your patience as I get all the accounts set up and all of the login information sent home. All of these resources are wonderful to encourage academic success for every child in a fun and engaging way!

Housekeeping Items:

Snack Time

Please be sure to put the snack in a separate place from their lunch. Please show your child where you will put their snack each day in order to foster independence for them. Sometimes, when the snack is packed inside the lunchbox, the children try to eat their whole lunch at snack time. Please only send one snack with your child. Thank you for your assistance in separating your child’s snack and lunch.

Snacks should be healthy to provide the children with energy for their day. Please send a simple snack such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, and crackers. Please do not send candy as a snack. Juice and milk are not allowed in our classroom. Please do not send any kind of juice box or milk with your child for snack time. The children may have the juice or milk for lunch in the cafeteria.

Folders

Please make sure to empty the folder each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized.

Thank you for your patience as we get the class used to full days and new rules and routines.

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