We practice a letter a week at school, so I am going to review the letter we’ve already done this year so that hopefully they don’t lose anything they’ve learned this year. They are used to this, and they do well with the consistency of repetition. Hopefully you will get to see how smart, funny, talented, and kind your child is. The first few days they may resist a bit, because it is new. Stick with it, and tell them Mrs. Manwell said they need to do it. 

Please feel free to share pictures of your child earning at home either via the facebook group, or remind if you don’t want to post more publicly.

Literacy Activities

Letter F f

1. Go on a letter hunt around your house.
2. Look at magazines and have your child either circle or cut out the letters they find.
3. Go on a letter hunt outside for some fresh air! Look at license plates, signs and street signs to find the letter for today.
4. Read a book with your child and have them find the letter of the day throughout the book.
5. Watch these two videos for letter review and the letter of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IBDpTRVNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT5Rzwj1xdw

Read Aloud of the Day

Can’t wait to see your pictures of what you’ve done! Maybe you’ll even see a video of Mrs. Manwell on here!!!

Hi everyone! I am letting you know that I will be posting plans every night for the next day. I am suggesting a schedule so that the kids have a routine every day just like they would in the classroom. Use as much of it as you like. I am trying to give you different ideas so that you don’t hear, “I’m bored.” They’ll get excited to see what new activity they get to do each day. Please send any pictures or videos of your kids doing the activities, I would love to see them! Please join our Facebook group that I’ve created to share the ideas each day. You can also post pictures or videos so we can all see what everyone else is doing.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/516354795603337/?ref=share

Good morning parents! I was not expecting to be writing this today but we will be out for the next month. We will not return to school until April 13th. I have decided to post a fun activity to do with your child school day that we are not in school. Please watch remind for these activities to keep your child engaged with their learning until we see each other again. Be safe and feel free to message me anytime on Remind while we are not in school.

I will be sending home reminders for the conferences that are on March 12th and March 19th. Please look for the note to come home on Monday. We will be discussing your child’s academics and answer any questions you may have.

I want to thank all of the parents who were able to come to the field trip to the Outdoor Adventure Center. I will be posting pictures this weekend so that you all may see the fun that was had. Have a wonderful weekend! I will see you all on Monday.

We had a very busy week of learning. We did patterns, letter work, graphing and a special trip to the library. Enjoy your week off with your children. We will see you all on February 24th!

We had the children work on their fine motor skills and math skills this week. While they had to use their fine motor to put cereal on a string they also made a pattern with two colors.

Library

We had an exciting week this week. We finally got some snow. The kids wanted to make a snowman soo bad. Razanzahra and a few other students were able to make mini snowmen. We also started to explore the school for Social Studies to talk about where things are located and explore the different areas that they are very curious about. Ms. Jamie, the cafeteria manager let us see where they prepare all of our wonderful food and even let us check out the freezer. Boy they look cold!

We had soo many wonderful parents and children come to the meeting yesterday. Mrs. Baydoun and I gave each parent the results of their child’s letter testing and was able to chat with each parent about the progress of their child. Parents seemed to really enjoy seeing their child participate in the different activities with them. I appreciated the parents involvement with their child and giving them some great one on one time. The next meeting will be February 27th!

Parents we will be having a special week next week!

We have a pajama day on Wednesday! The kids can wear pajamas, robes and slippers for the day as we will enjoy a movie, popcorn and hot chocolate!

Thursday is the fun winter fair at Cotter! Your child doesn’t come to McCollough on this day but instead you will bring your child to Cotter at 12:30 and will love all of the activities with your child! Look for Mrs. Baydoun and I!!

Have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see you Monday!!

Below are the pictures from our visitor last week. I had trouble loading all of he pictures so here they are!