“Hello Spring!”

Greetings room 106 Families!

Spring has sprung! Let’s hope the weather continues to warm up and stay pleasant for us during the spring season. THANK YOU to all the families that have been coming into the class as Mystery Readers this month. The students and I have been enjoying all the stories 🙂 I have included some of the pictures below of the guest readers for you to enjoy…

Here is what you need to know this short week in school and just after the break:

*Reading Minutes are due Thursday morning for March Reading Month! Make sure all calendars are all signed and updated

*Spirit Week: Mon- DuVall day, Tuesday- Favorite Sport Day, Wednesday- Beach day (NO swimsuits), Thursday- PJs (pajama day!)

*Spring Vacation: Friday, March 30th, 2018! Students are to report back to school on Monday April 9th, 2018

* Spelling KDG: -ug family (bug, rug, tug, mug, jug, dug, hug, am, we)

*First Grade: long /i/ pattern again this week

*Please turn in permission slip (completely filled out) for the zoo field trip in a white envelope with your child’s name on it and the $6 entry fee included

Have a wonderful week! I will add and update any changes if need be 🙂

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Dear families,

As the weather gets warmer, we are going to be playing outside a lot more woohoo!!! The warm weather brings with it fun, smiles and also new boo-boos! Unfortunately we had a few sad faces today after I picked the students up from lunch recess! This is to be expected though because all the kiddos are SO excited to run and play 🙂 As a class we revisited classroom and playground expectations at 12:00pm today and how to make sure we stay safe while playing outside on the cement AND recess with older students outside. Here is what we came up with to avoid injuries:

1. WALK on the cement when the lunch moms blow the whistle to line up
2. Play with students on the wood chips when we run
3. Play with students our own age and size and do NOT join in a game such as soccer on the black top with the older students in the afternoon!
4. Stick together and never leave the teacher
5. When the teacher blows the whistle I should also walk quickly to the line and wait for her

We would really appreciate if you went over these expectations with your child again to help the teacher and lunch staff keep your precious babies safe and happy!

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class!

Greetings Room 106!

Just a few reminders this week:

• If you have a spring conference for this Thursday, March 22nd you received a note home from the teacher last week. I look forward to seeing those families at their conference times. Please remember to be prompt because appointment times are back to back.
• The kdg is in the process of organizing a field trip to the zoo in April! Permission slips will go home this week, so please return them as soon as possible! We will require 6 chaperones for the trip (I’ll pick through the lottery system again!). We are excited for this opportunity.
• Please make sure you child is continuing to log his/her reading minutes each night on their March Reading Calendar Log so that we can try and win a pizza party at the end of March from the PTA! Please place them in the homework folder on Monday’s so I can see and track your child’s progress!
• Last night your child received their pasta for pennies information. Please help your child collect spare change and donations for this important cause and return the box on the due date! If we collect the most money in DuVall we could win a pasta party from Olive garden and second place wins an ice cream party! Best of luck with your donations.
• Guest Readers: We thank all of our guest readers who have volunteered their time to come in and help us share in the joy of reading. We look forward to any more parents/grandparents who come to read for the rest of the month!

Spelling this week:

KDG -ot family

First Grade: Long /i/ sound pattern from the /y/

Have a wonderful week! I’ll update the blog when I have more news from our classroom…

Mrs. Ross 🙂

We Are 100 Days SMARTER!

Dearest Families,

We wanted to share a few pictures from our wonderful day with you! We can NOT thank you enough for all of the support and love you give to our classroom each and every day. Thank you for helping to make our special day SO memorable and delicious 🙂 I apologize in advance if anyone is too full for dinner! I also wanted to thank ALL of you for the beautiful Valentine’s cards and treats. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful group of students and families this year. Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

With love and gratitude,

Mrs. Ross and her old friends 🙂

Dear families,

Our class voted to move the 100th day celebration and dress up day to Wednesday the 14th of February (Valentine’s Day)! We wanted to celebrate with our friends in the other classes and found out they moved it to Wednesday the true 100th day because of the snow day on Friday. This is ok though, because it gives us more time to get our amazing old lady and old man outfits ready to rock! It also gives everyone more time to come up with their 100th day collections 🙂 We shared some this morning and thank those who have turned it in so far! Please let me know if you need any more clarification…I will also send home a note tonight!

Mrs. Ross

Dear families,

I hope this message finds you all warm and dry and inside your cozy houses watching the Olympics! Go USA!!! This message is to let you know that our sign up genius for the 100th Day has been published and shared tonight. In addition, I wanted to send a special message about Valentine’s Day.

Our class will be exchanging Valentines on Wednesday afternoon. If you child would like to participate (no pressure), please send in 24 Valentines. In addition, if they want to put a treat or sucker with it or something please just make sure that items are individually packed. No cupcakes please. I will be bringing in a cookie for the class to ice and eat! I have found that with kdg it is much easier to just put FROM: _____________ on each card instead of writing out each child’s name! It is way less confusing for the students that way 🙂 But, if your child wants to write their friends names here is the list of our cuties 🙂

Tyler B.

Samuel B.

Alexander B.

Gia D.

Ramy E.

James F.

Arjum G.

Abdurahman H.

Anya H.

Britta H.

Angelina H.

David L.

Maliya M.

Yasir R.

Grace M.

Malynn S.

Griffin S.

Enzo S.

Marco V.

Rachael G.

Harlow H.

Willow P.

Mehak L.

Nada S.

DuVall Families,

As you enjoy the wonderful winter weather our city is experiencing, please be aware of students walking to/ from school during arrival/dismissal.  Please follow the speed limit near the school.  During arrival/dismissal, please do not park in the bus lane on Beech Street as well as in the no parking zone by the corner of Beech and Military as it creates a bottleneck for traffic and an additional hazard for students walking across the street.  Avoid picking up/ dropping off students in the middle of the street is not safe. When parking, please do not block the driveways of nearby homes or alleyways as it obstructs families from being able to leave their property.  Additionally, several vehicles are parking in the staff parking lot blocking cars and backing up – this puts students at risk if you do not see them as you are backing up.  Thank you for your support in helping all of our children arrive to and leave school safely!

DuVall Principal and Office

Dear Families,

I hope you are are all warm and dry and enjoying this weekend with your loved ones! As we roll into February here is what you need to know this week and some important dates for this month! Have a wonderful week and if there are any additions or changes to this post I will write again asap!

*Tuesday February 6th from 6:00pm-7:00pm we will be having Math night at the school! I hope to see you all there it should be so fun 🙂 I will have math centers in our room of course!

*Tuesday February 13th, we will be celebrating our 100th day of school! Please join Mrs. Ross in dressing up for the day like your “100 Year Old Self”! In the past my students have worn their OWN clothes (no need to buy a costume) and simply put comfortable tennis shoes on with long skirts or dress pants and sprayed their hair and added wrinkles! It’s super fun and funny and one of my favorite days of the year! I will send home a special note with specific details about what to bring and wear that day (no pressure of course) and a sign up genius should you want to help donate supplies for our “100th Day trail mix” snack! Below are a few of my previous students who dressed up in clothes from home and looked adorable! They used baby powder or silver costume hair spray and moms drew lines on them with eyeliner or face paint! It was hilarious.

*Mid Winter Break: Week of February 19th -23 rd

*Monday we will switch to the February PBIS behavior sheet. Please make sure to discuss behavior each day and sign once a week 🙂

*Because we had no school on Friday, all students will be taking home their report cards on Monday. I am so pleased with the progress from the class and THANK YOU all for your continued support with your child. This has been such an amazing year together and I am so grateful and proud!

*Tuesday is library check out day! Please make sure your child’s book is in their backpack the night before. Thank you for your help 🙂

*Spelling KDG: -op family  (*cop, shop, mop, *top, *hop, pop, bop) went, are 

*Spelling First: -bl and -gl families (blank, blue, blog, blow, glow, glad, glue, glass) went, are 

Happy Friday to all! Just a reminder that the kindergartners do NOT have school this morning and I will miss you all and see you Monday!

First Graders, you DO have school today and you are to report to Ms. Kerby’s line in the morning. First graders there IS popcorn today so bring those quarters and have a fabulous day! Good luck on your spelling test and I’ll see you Monday!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Dear families,

Our class wanted to share the awesome news that we have also rocked the math NWEA assessment last week! I am SO proud of the hard work, dedication to learning, enthusiasm and stamina your child has shown this year so far. What means the most to me as a teacher (and mother of a child who also takes these assessments) is that our children take it slowly and with meaning but do not put too much pressure on themselves. Now whatever the score, we will celebrate our efforts! We feel like eating PIZZA!!!

So, tomorrow afternoon, during our PM snack time, Mrs. Ross will be ordering 2 cheese and 2 pepperoni pizza to kick back, relax and celebrate our EFFORTS (although we also rocked our scores hee hee)!

In addition, I just wanted to sincerely thank you once again for sending such well rested, well prepared, enthusiastic young learners to school every day for me to love and love teaching! Thank you for ALL you do with them at home to teach and reinforce great learning. We are such a great team!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂