Don’t forget tomorrow is the first popcorn Friday.  Students can buy a bag of popcorn at lunch for .25 cents!  Pack a quarter in your student’s lunchbox!

Your student visited the book fair today and created a wish list!  If you wish to purchase a book off their wish list payment can be sent back to school in their red folder OR you can visit the Book Fair as a family this Thursday evening at OPEN HOUSE.

Don’t forget to return library books tomorrow!  We have book checkout tomorrow.

Thank you!

PBIS (Positive Behavior)

We started with our positive behavior marking system this week.  If a student breaks a classroom rule the following will happen:

1^st time a rule is broken they will move to yellow =  “SLOW DOWN” (warning)

2^nd time a rule is broken they will move to orange =  “Contact Co-Pilot”  (time out or time out from recess)

3^rd time a rule is broken they will move to red =  “Turbulence”  (sent to the principal)

At any time if the student is found improving their behavior they may move their clip back to green = “GREAT JOB!  FLYING HIGH”

Your student’s behavior report will come home daily on the back of their red communication folder.  Please sign and return the behavior chart daily.

*** Our first reward for the month of September is extra playground time and POPSICLES!  The student earns this reward by moving their clip less than 6 times.  This reward will happen at the end of September.

Snack vs. Lunch

Please remember to pack 1-2 small snacks daily.

Please discuss with your child what is packed for snack and what is packed for lunch.  Please try to label their snack or pack it separate from the lunch box.

Students are welcome to bring and leave water bottles in their locker for throughout the day.

Special Classes

The following is our special class schedule.  Please remember gym shoes on gym days!

MONDAY:  Gym

TUESDAY:  Music, Library Book Check Out

THURSDAY:  Gym

FRIDAY:  Music, Art and Media Center

Open House

Open House for Lindbergh Elementary will be Thursday, September  19^th 6-7:30 p.m.  Come tour your student’s classroom and the school building and meet teachers and staff.

Family Picture

We would like to decorate our classroom and make it feel “like home.”  Please send in an unframed 3×5 picture of your family at your convenience.  We will be making and decorating frames in class for them.

**We would like to do this in time for Open House!

Library Book Checkout

We visited the library and checked out our first library book this past Tuesday.  We discussed how to take care of our book and keep it safe from damage.  These books need to be returned every Tuesday in order to check out a new book.

Book Fair

We will visit the Scholastic Book Fair on Monday the 16^th.  Monday is our “browsing” day.  Your student will come home with a “wish list” and prices.

Curriculum

• This week your student met their first Alpha friend, “SAMMY SEAL.”  Ask them what sound letter “S” and Sammy Seal make!
• In Math we explored the names of our pattern block shapes, we explored measuring with paper, getting to know our Number Grid and practicing our route counting.
• We still are working on our classroom rules and routines.
• In “Daily 5” we continued to talk about the “3 Ways to Read a Story” and we modeled that with our Read Aloud stories.
• We completed a name assessment and name craft.
• I will begin assessing the children on their alphabet knowledge and some basic other literacy tasks next week.

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Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Ruselink

Just a reminder that T-shirt orders are due tomorrow, Friday the 13th.

One more reminder!

Tomorrow is our first LATE START.

School will begin at 9:35 a.m. with the same dismissal time (3:35 p.m.)

Hello Families!

Just a reminder there is a PTA meeting this evening at 7:00 p.m.

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