{"id":169,"date":"2017-09-21T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-09-22T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T23:19:40","slug":"newsletter-for-week-3-recap-and-new-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/2017\/09\/21\/newsletter-for-week-3-recap-and-new-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter for Week 3 (recap and NEW info)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What we did during our week:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter B and the letter Y.\u00a0 Families, I am trying to promote writing with a tripod grasp when holding a pencil (3 finger grasp).\u00a0 A child will have a very difficult time if they are holding the pencil as a closed fist.\u00a0 If you need some pointers on how to teach your child a tripod grasp, I will be more than happy to show you how to teach your child at home:)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 4, 5, and 6. In addition, we learned about rectangles, and triangles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science: We are still learning about our 5 senses. This week we focused on Touch and Hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Studies: We are still practicing and getting better at our procedures every day!\u00a0 Please ask your child about our 5 golden rules we follow each day to keep them on &#8220;Owl is good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other: Wednesday we had an assembly from the Dearborn police and their police dog.\u00a0 I posted some pictures of the assembly on our blog&#8230;check it out!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Glimpse into next week\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week we will be looking at and working with apples in preparation for our field trip!<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Book Check out will start next week!\u00a0 Your child will bring a book home from the library and place it in their backpacks.\u00a0 Please return the book before each following Friday, so your child can recheck out a new book:)\u00a0 Also, once we start leveled books, I will be sending them home in your child&#8217;s book bag.\u00a0 This won&#8217;t happen for another month or so. \u00a0For the mean time, please continue to read books from home, the Dearborn public library or on reading eggs:)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Important Information:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Field Trip forms for the Apple Orchard were sent home, please have those returned, with money in an envelope by September 29th.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please remember to empty your child\u2019s green folder every night on the side that says &#8220;KEEP at home&#8221; and sign the communication log.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Housekeeping items:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Homework packet:<\/strong> We had all students return their completed homework packet this Thursday!!\u00a0 Woo hoo!\u00a0 The only thing I noticed, is that some parents did not fill in the reading log each night.\u00a0 Please make sure to write the title of the book and check off how the child read the book each night:)\u00a0 Thank you!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sandals:<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems a lot of our girls are wearing open toed shoes into the classroom.\u00a0 Although, these shoes may be cute and stylish, they make for very dangerous situations on the playground and running on wood chips.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To ensure all our students are safe during recess time, I am asking all parents to send their child to school with a CLOSED toed shoe.\u00a0 Please no open toed shoes and or sandals.\u00a0 If your child comes to school with them, I will call home for the parent to send shoes to the office.\u00a0 Thank you so much for your understanding&#8230;safety must come first for our babies:)\u00a0 On Gym days (Thursday and Fridays), make sure to wear appropriate gym attire: gym shoes, pants, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Water Bottles<\/strong>: Please make sure to send in a REUSABLE water bottle with your child each day.\u00a0 A disposable water bottle is not ideal for the classroom.\u00a0 Disposable bottles make for a huge accident in the classroom, if spilled.\u00a0 Please find the bottles that have a spout or a straw inside the cup.\u00a0 Thank you for your cooperation in this matter:)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Snack:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t forget to send in a light, HEALTHY snack with your child each day.\u00a0 Please keep this snack SEPARATE from your child&#8217;s home lunch.\u00a0 Snacks should be placed in a quick, accessible place where your child can grab from in their backpack.\u00a0 This will make snack time less confusing for our children.\u00a0 Thank you!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lunch:<\/strong> Please communicate with your child or myself (on the communication log) if your child is receiving a school lunch.\u00a0 Some kids come to school and are not sure what they are doing for lunch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shoes laces and Pants:\u00a0<\/strong>Teaching your child how to tie their shoes and properly unbuttoning or buttoning their pants, will help your child become more independent learners in the classroom.\u00a0 Although I would love to tie all 23 shoes in the classroom, it would take up most of my time and take away from teaching our students.\u00a0 Also, teaching your child how to unbutton his\/her pants will make for less accidents in the future.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank you for your understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Upcoming Events:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 29th &#8211; Picture Day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 29th &#8211; Field Trip form &amp; money due<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 29th- Outdoor Movie Night slip (green) and money is due<\/span><\/p>\n<p>October 3rd &#8211; Kindergarten Field Trip to Apple Orchard<\/p>\n<p><em>I hope everyone is enjoying\u00a0this Indian Summer we have been having in September!\u00a0 We have a hot weekend ahead!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we did during our week: Language Arts and Writing: We worked on recognizing and writing the letter B and the letter Y.\u00a0 Families, I am trying to promote writing with a tripod grasp when holding a pencil (3 finger grasp).\u00a0 A child will have a very difficult time if they are holding the pencil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsfillmore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}