We had a great time today learning about animals, going on a hay ride, walking the story book trail, feeding the ducks and picking a pumpkin. Thank you for helping parents! I can’t do it without you! 

Don’t forget Social Studies Interviews are due tomorrow.

We have a chaperon who would like to carpool with someone to Upland Farms. If you would be willing to drive another parent please let me know so they can still chaperon.

First I’d like to say thank you for signing their behavior/reading logs and signing and returning their spelling books.

Monday- October 9th is picture day

Tuesday- is our field trip.  Chaperons please meet in our classroom at 8:45am.  I will give you your group list.  You can follow the bus or  google Upland Farms and do a map quest.  Please dress students for the weather and send them with a bag lunch with their name on it.

Wednesday-Our class will be going to the bookfair at 3:00pm

Thursday-6-8pm Snow School Skate Party and Social Studies Interview Homework Assignment is due.

Friday-half day 11:45 dismissal

Looks like it’s a busy week!

Have a great weekend!

A social studies homework assignment was sent home today.  Students have to interview a relative two generations away from them (grandparent, great aunts and uncles etc..) If none are available an elderly neighbor is good as well. There is a sheet attached to the interview form with details. It is due next Thursday, October 15th.

Your child has a spelling booklet in their folder.  They will be taking all their tests in this booklet. I send it home to be signed and then returned the next day. So take a look at it, sign and return. Also when I told students they had two days to work on their practice math test many said “oh I can finish it in one. So we decided to bring them back tomorrow.  I do want to review it with them. I realize it may take some of them awhile to finish, some will need your help reading it, If they are getting frustrated after 10-15 minutes just return it with what they finished, we will review it tomorrow and they can take it home and study tomorrow night for Friday’s test.  Also don’t forget to sign their reading log, I’ve told students it’s their responsibility to write down the title of the book they read and to give it to you to sign.

Today 1st graders learned that an artifact is an object that can help them learn about the past. We read the story Aunt Claire’s Yellow Beehive Hair. In this story, a young girl wanted to get to know the family who came before her, who helped make her own family. So on a rainy day she and her grandma collect artifacts from around the house and grandma tells her the stories that go along with the artifacts to help her learn about her relatives. They found pictures, a necklace, old letters, a war medal, dried flowers and a purple ribbon. As an optional homework assignment students were told to bring in an artifact from that past and share the artifact and the story behind it with their classmates.  They were told to make sure they get permission from you to bring it to school.  So I hope to see a few artifacts come in and learn something about their past!

Reminders- field trip forms due tomorrow and it’s a late start Wednesday…breakfast will not be served school starts at 9:35 am.

Picture Day forms were sent home today. Please send them in on Picture Day, not before.

Field trip forms are due next Wednesday the 7th and that day is also a late start day so no breakfast will be served.

There will be a math test on Friday the 9th, A study guide will be sent home on Wednesday. Please have your student do it and then check it, then go over anything they had trouble with.

Hi Parents,

A filed trip form was sent home along with a schedule of all our field trips. Please return by next Wednesday, October 7.  Also a reminder went home for tomorrow’s event with our  WATCH D.O.G.S. An announcement in regards to Snow’s first PTA meeting is also in their folder (this Thursday, October 1st at 6pm in the cafeteria). Please be sure to sign your child’s reading/behavior log and make sure they complete their daily homework.

Thanks,

Mrs. Kearney

Hi,

Just wanted to let your know that your child has been working hard, and they seem to miss those summer days! We completed our Fall NWEA testing and will go over the results at Parent Teacher Conferences. Some of you were unable to make it to Open House so I’ll send you a time slot and you can let me know if it works for you. Over these past two weeks we have been working on following directions, creating rules, and practicing routines. When students return we will begin the PBIS color system for behavior. Your child will be marking their color on their reading/behavior log.  Please sign it nightly. We will only be using the behavior section of it next week.  The following week we will begin keeping track of their reading minutes. You will have to write the title of the book read and the minutes read (many of them are good at printing and can fill it out themselves, you will just have to sign it. Green is a great day. Yellow they had a warning, Orange they haven’t fixed their behavior yet, and Red, they are having a rough day. If a student is on red they have to fill out a form and it will be sent home and signed. Depending on why they got to red, you may also receive a phone from me. I’m going to be changing spelling homework, instead of a tic- tac- toe students will receive a worksheet on Monday (due Tue.), one on Tuesday (due Wed) and one on Wednesday (due Thur.), and Thursday they should take a practice spelling test.

It was nice meeting everyone at Open House and don’t forget we have the rest of this week off. Eid Mubarak!

Have a Great Night,

Mrs. Kearney