Back in the beginning of the school year, we colored a template of a hat with stirpes. Each child picked the style of hat they liked, picked three colors and then designed their own hat. I sent their designs to my friend and she handmade a hat based on their designs!

THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!

They will be wearing the hat when the go home today! I also included a card in their bag with washing instructions. If your child picked a design with a pom pom on top, you can snap off the pom pom, wash it, then snap it back on! She thought of EVERYTHING!

Have a great Thanksgiving! If you are traveling, please be safe. I will see you all on Monday!

Winter is here!!

I was not super happy to wake up this morning to this white stuff on the ground! But no matter how we feel about it, it is here and we need to prepare!

We WILL be going outside if the temperature is above 20* and it is NOT raining. Dress warm!!

Here are some important things:

*Please send your child to school in winter boots on days that are cold, wet, or snowy. These not only keep their feet warm but dry when we go outside. Please send in a dry pair of shoes to wear IN the classroom. Wet, muddy boots make a wet, muddy classroom! I suggest that you send in a pair that they can keep here. That way, they aren’t forgotten. Also, these need to be easy on/easy off shoes please. We have 3 recesses, plus arrival and dismissal. That’s 8 times they are changing boots/shoes. If they cannot do this by themselves it makes for a VERY LONG day!

*Mittens work WAY easier than gloves! Kinders have a difficult time with 10 fingered gloves. I recommend Dollar Tree or Family Dollar mittens. Kinders have a difficult time keeping up with hats/mittens (any belongings really) so keep it cheap and easy. I always try to keep a supply of mittens here to borrow if they need to.

*Once the snow is here it’s fun to play in! But in order to play in the snow, children MUST have snow pants AND snow boots. If you are able, I recommend leaving the snow pants here so your child does not have to carry them back and forth. We have hooks to hang them up. We can send them home on weekends and breaks so if we have a snowstorm on the weekend they have them to play. Please practice putting these on and taking them off.

*Please practice putting coats on and zipping them up. As I mentioned earlier, we have 3 recesses and with arrival/dismissal that’s a lot of time spent trying to put on coats. Teach them how to turn sleeves right side out when they are wrong. That one is tricky. 🙂

Thank you all for your support. I know it sounds like I am being picky, but when you are outnumbered 19 to 1 it helps if they can do a lot of this themselves!

Fingers crossed we don’t have anymore snow this winter. 🙂

I was finally able to get the letter mats finished this weekend so I was able to send home the reading bags today! Yay!

In your bag, you will find a few things. Please keep ALL items in the bag and return them to school everyday. I will take things out and add things as needed.

In every bag, you will see the following:

1. Dry erase pocket with your child’s first name on one side and numbers on the other
2. Dry erase pocket with uppercase on one side and lower case on the other
3. Dry erase marker (some have an eraser on the lid, some do not, please use a tissue to erase)
4. Laminated word mat with letter tiles
5. Full sheet with some information about UFLI
6. Half sheets with the weekly lessons

They can use the Word Mat and the letter tiles to blend words. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Happy Reading!

Hello!

For those of you that have logged into iReady and have completed some lessons, great job! Please remember that this is optional and keep it to about 10-20 minutes a session.

I will be ‘assigning’ lessons on iReady based on what we have done in class. For example, we have learned about the short o and the letter n sound so I will be assigning those lessons for extra practice. All students will have those lessons. I will also be adding some lessons for kids as I see they need them. If I notice that someone is struggling with something (for example: rhyming) I will assign a lesson or two for them to practice that. Or if I know that a child needs a more challenging lesson, I will assign that. If you notice that the lessons that in their pathway (not the ones that I assign but the ones that are automatically assigned to them) are too easy or too hard, please let me know. I will adjust as needed.

iReady is what we call Computer Adaptive. As they kids pass lessons, they will get harder. If they do not do well in an area, they will reteach it or repeat it. Because of this, it’s important that the students complete this work BY THEMSELVES. If you help them, the program thinks they know it and it moves on and gives them harder lessons. This will make it frustrating for the students. So please, let them do these lessons on their own. You may need to explain directions, help with finding the cursor, etc, but please do not give them answers to help them finish a lesson.

Are your conferences Thursday? Did you have to leave school fast on Tuesday and miss the bake sale? No worries! The Third Graders are extending their Snack/Bake Sale!

Stop in the lobby after school on THURSDAY to help support the third graders with their LAnsing field trip!

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 12th is a big day at Snow!

We have Early Release. School will dismiss at 2:45.

Picture Retakes will take place in the morning. If your child was absent and did not get their pictures taken the first time, they will have their picture taken tomorrow. If you want retakes, these will also be tomorrow. They plan on being done by 10:30.

We have day 1 of Parent Teacher Conferences. If you signed up for a time on Tuesday, I will see you there!

After school, Third Grade is hosting a bake sale to raise funds for their big field trip to Lansing. Please stop by the lobby AFTER dismissal at 2:25 to buy some yummy treats and support the third graders!

PTA is hosting a Skate Night at United Skates in Lincoln Park. 6 pm to 8pm. Admission is $5 and Skate rental is also $5. Non skating adults and kids are free! Snow receives 50% of paid admissions back to the PTA! Oh, and you get to meet MARIO!! Have fun!

If your child was not here on picture day, or if you would like retakes, Lifetouch will be here on November 12th.

https://my.lifetouch.com/mylifetouch/#/

The Third Grade team is having a Bake Sale to raise money for a trip to Lansing.

It will be Tuesday, November 12 after school in the main lobby. If you want to help support the third graders, you can buy some yummy treats after school! Everything is $1! If you would like to donate anything to the third graders to sell, please let me know and I will get you the drop off info. Thank you!

There are still a few parents that have not signed up for conferences. Please do it soon so we can meet and discuss your child.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D4DAAAF2AA2F94-45733975-fall#

Due to Snow School being a polling place, there will be NO SCHOOL tomorrow, November 5th. We will be back on Wednesday, November 6th.