Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year!
Dear Parents,
It is my pleasure to be working with your children this year! I’m so excited to work with many of the same families and welcome our new families! We will have a great year of learning ahead! Below you will find some helpful information regarding homework, snacks, and birthdays.
Homework: We will have reading homework each night as well as math homework. Math homework will consist of any unfinished work from that day and/or a math home link. Reading homework will consist of a reading bag and a flashcard to record reading minutes. Your child should read for approximately 20 minutes each night and record the book they read on the flashcard which will be due each Monday.
Spelling can be practiced on your own. The new words will come home on Monday. Practice should occur during the week and the test will be on Friday.
School Supplies: 4 spiral notebooks, a durable folder that can serve as a homework folder (many students still have the homework folder from last year which can be just fine), glue sticks, Kleenex, sticky notes, ruler, pencil box or supply box for crayons and such, pencil sharpener, washable markers for illustrating, colored pencils, crayons, and dry erase markers, erasers always come in handy too.
Snacks: Please send in a fruit, vegetable, cheese or yogurt for snacks. Also, please send in a water bottle with a pop-top rather than a screw top. This will help to avoid spills.
Parent/Teacher Communication: The best times to reach me by phone are before or after school at 827-6900. My email is paranag@dearbornschools.org. I also communicate through my blog. You can subscribe to this blog by going to blog.dearbornschools.org/paranag/. Type in your email where it says subscription and you will see all of my blogs which I will type once a week!
I am looking forward to a wonderful year!
Sincerely,
Gina Parana