9-7-2018
DuVall Community,
Earlier this morning police cars and EMS were in the neighborhood near our school. During this time, students were learning safely at school. The police and EMS were responding to an situation that was not related to school operations and appears to be a medical emergency.
Dear Families,
Wow! We made it! The first week of school just FLEW by for us and we had a BLAST 🙂 We hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I traveled all the way to and from Ohio to visit family I have not seen in a while. Benjamin and Antonia had a great time playing with their cousins. We are so tired lol! I want to welcome you again to room 106. I am so happy with my new penguins and know it is going to be a fantastic year. I thank you for making all the necessary arrangements to make sure your child came in last week for their quick kdg readiness appointments during your busy work weeks. I would also like to send a HUGE thank you to Sebastian and his family for donating TWO huge fans for our hot classroom. We appreciate you so much and will take such great care of these beautiful fans.
Thank you also for being so prompt returning the emergency cards, lunch forms and anything else included in your beginning of the year packet from Ms. Cathy and Ms. Ann in the office. If you would like to volunteer in the building at all this year or come along on a field trip, please make sure you have completed an ichat form in the office. These are good for several years!
Here is what you need to know for this week:
Language Arts: Letter Focus: S.M, Sight words: the, I, Recognizing Rhyming words, Listening and comprehending stories: asking and answering questions about the text, Launching Daily 5 and Read to Self, writing personal narratives through pictures
Math: Launching Eureka Math Unit 1 Number 0-10.
Social Studies: Begin Unit 1: Getting Along With Others
Homework: This week I am asking you to send in a picture of your family for our Daily 5 program to decorate the classroom and make it feel like home for our children! This week we will take the picture that come in and make picture frames for them on Friday!
*Important Dates:
-Thursday, September 13th, 2018 Open House 6:00pm
Have a wonderful week and if there is anything I am missing in this post, I will be sure to send updates throughout the week.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross 🙂
*If you have not yet signup for our classroom iblog here is the address for you to sign up. Please make sure that you confirm your subscription! Next week, I will not be sending home a paper copy of the newsletter in order to help DuVall save resources for instruction.
Mrs. Ross’s iblog can be found here: dearbornschools.org/ross/
Dear families of 106,
Happy first day of school! I wanted to wish you a wonderful first day and week back and to wish you farewell as subscribers to my blog. I will unsubscribe you today and take care of it for you. Please know that I am ALWAYS here for your child and family and feel free to email me or come to me for anything. I am also going to begin offering individual tutoring this year after school hours. So if you feel your child needs any support in reading or math please feel free to contact me. Have a healthy, happy and safe new school year!
With Love,
Mrs. Ross
Dear Families of 106,
Welcome to my classroom. I am SO very excited to meet all of your wonderful children this week and to teach them this year. This blog is where you will go to read and inform yourself about everything kindergarten in room 106! I will post my newsletter almost every week so please be sure to check every Sunday evening or Monday evening to be prepare for the weeks learning or events. Here is what you need to know for this week!
Monday: First Day of school 8:35am-11:45am (*informational meeting right after school in room 106/sign up for kindergarten readiness testing)
Tuesday: Half day 8:35am-11:45am (testing by appointment from 1:00pm-3:00pm)
Wednesday: Half day 8:35am-11:45am (testing by appointment from 1:00pm-3:00pm)
Thursday: Half day 8:35am-11:45am (testing by appointment from 1:00pm-3:00pm)
Friday: No School. Labor Day weekend! School resumes Tuesday morning at 8:35am
*Students are welcome to bring a snack all week in a lunch box so that we can practice lunchroom and playground procedures and expectations
*It will be very HOT this week! Students are always encouraged to bring a water bottle to school with their name on it.
Have a wonderful first week and please let me know if I can answer any questions or concerns about our class. I can be reached at my email address for personal questions you do not want the whole classroom to view. My email address is rossm1@dearbornschools.org
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross 🙂
Arjun’s Birthday 8-18-2018
5:30-7:30pm
RSVP: to Ms. Sanjana 919(265-7222)
Greetings to all my favorite DuVall penguins and their families!!!! I hope you are all having a WONDERFUL summer break. I miss you all and am so excited to see you soon! Today I am writing his post to make sure that I remind all our families hat Arjun and his parents would love to have you all at his birthday party which is right around the corner!
Please RSVP to his mom and let her know if you’ll be able to attend. I hope to see you there for some fun and games and to celebrate our special guy. 🎉
Sincerely,
Mrs Ross 🎂
Dear families,
Thank you for all the support and organization you did to help our field day run smoothly! Thank you to all the parents who came to help us walk to the field day and help our little ones understand how to play and keep us safe and happy! We had a BLAST and look forward to next week! If anyone has any pictures from today please feel free to share them with us! Gia and Yasir we missed you so much and hope you are feeling better soon!!!
rossm1@dearbornschools.org
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross and Class!
Families,
This post is to remind you all that tomorrow morning from 9:00am-11:00am is our Field Day yay!!!!!! Please remember to send your child to school with a backpack and lunch plans as if it was a normal day. If they are buying lunch we will be back in time as usual! Here are a few reminders to help make the morning easier:
We are looking forward to a great field day!
Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂
*For those that are driving next week to the park and pool please make sure that you have come into the office to show your driver license and insurance. In addition, you must have a car seat for every child you drive so if parents are willing to let us borrow some for the day we would appreciate it! I have one in my car that can be used as well!
Dear Families,
Happy Memorial Day! I hope this message finds you all well rested and cool! I have spent the last three days in the hot sun watching Benjamin and his team play in the Canton Cup soccer tournament! Whew, it’s so hot! For those of you fasting I wish you a peaceful Eid Mubarek! Here are some announcements and reminders heading in to this week and the end of the year reminders again. have a wonderful week and I’ll add and change these posts as needed. THANK YOU to all of your families for volunteering to help accompany us on the field trips and drive us to the park and pool day at Dunworth pool! You are so amazing and we are so blessed.
Announcements: Special announcement from Mr. Attee…
*Field Trip Reminders: Have you sent these in yet?
1.Yogurtopia: Please sign permission slip and send in $4 for your child! Parents welcome if they have an ichat. If they want to eat yogurt please send in an additional $4 in advance! Thank you!
2.Field Day: Please just sign the permission slip and let us know if you can help walk us to the summer stevens park! In addition please indicate if you can “run” a station! Parent chaperones must have the current ichat on file!
3.Park and Pool: Please sign Permission slip, $6 for students and $2 for adults! PLEASE let us know if you can drive students and how many! If the number is your children please indicate so I don’t end up arranging other children to go with you!
4. Ice Cream Social Raffle basket: We are making a “Super Mario” themed Nintendo Switch basket for the kindergarten/first grade basket. We are asking for donations for this basket (from $1-$5 per student) to help us purchase amazing products! Please make sure that this donation is CLEARLY marked in an envelope or zip lock baggie with your child’s name on it and ICE CREAM SOCIAL donation money (so that we don’t mistake it for the Yogurtopia field trip’s ice cream money!) THANK YOU in advance for helping to donate for this basket while sending in money for so many other things!
You’re Cordially Invited:
Reading Licence Ceremony: Please join us this Friday, June 1st to watch and congratulate your child as they earn their “Reading Licence” from Mrs. Ross! Your child may dress their best and we encourage any parent, grandparent, aunts, uncles you would like to invite may attend 🙂 I believe I said 2:30 pm on the first invite, so we look forward to seeing you there! It will be a brief ceremony and then we will enjoy light refreshments and socialize until it’s time to go home!
*Reading License Wallets: In years past, I have mentioned to parents that as a “reward” for earning their license it is a cute idea to buy a surprise wallet/bring in your child’s special “wallet” to put their reading license in!
*I also wanted to send a HUGE thank you to all of you for helping to make our field day so wonderful! THANK YOU for volunteering to drive our children and bring all the wonderful supplies to make our park portion so fun! The kids are so excited and I am SO thrilled to experience this Penguin tradition!
We thank you all and hope you have a beautiful week! If you have any questions or concerns PLEASE do not hesitate to ask!
Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂
Dear Parents,
I am writing you to remind all families to please send in all forms and money for your child to attend the three end of the year events! Here is what you need for each:
Yogurtopia: sign form and send in $4 for your child! Parents welcome if they have an ichat and if they want to eat yogurt you must pay $4 in advance!
Field Day: Please just sign the permission slip and let us know if you can “run” a station! we are walking to summer stevens, so we’d love parents to accompany us on the walk if you have the current ichat!
Park and Pool: Permission slip, $6 for students and $2 for adults! PLEASE let us know if you can drive students and how many! If the number is your children please indicate so I don’t end up arranging other children to go with you!
As of now we do NOT have enough drivers for our classroom and I am a little worried! If you can take more that just you child, or are able to drive your child please consider helping us out that day!THANK YOU in advance for all your help as ALWAYS!!!
We thank you all and hope you have a beautiful day!
Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂