Friday Newsletter, 11-4-16

News and Information

Calendar Items

Tuesday, November 8th – No School

Wednesday, November 16th – Late Start

Wednesday, November 23rd – No School

Thursday, November 24th – No School (Thanksgiving)

Parent Teacher Conferences

You should have recieved an invitation to meet for parent/teacher conferences.  Please fill out the slip and return to school if you are available to meet.

What We Did This Week

Our Alpha Friend was Fifi Fish, letter F

We worked in our journals

We worked in our poem books

We worked on “Read To Self”

We practiced our numerals

We practiced our cutting and sorting by shape

We worked in our Handwriting Books

We worked on fine motor activities

We worked with Mr. Iversile (the school social worker) on showing attention skills

Holiday Boutique Bake Sale

CALLING ALL BAKERS!

It’s that time of year again!!!

The Lindbergh Holiday Boutique and Bake Sale is November 12th.

Our sale last year was a tremendous success thanks to all the wonderful families that

donated their time, energy and delicious baked goods and candy.

We need your help again this year:

Donate your Cakes, Cookies, Rice Krispie Treats!

Donate Quick Breads, Pies, Cupcakes, Brownies!

Donate Gluten Free Goodies, Candy -Fudge, pretzels!

Have a favorite baked good or candy?  Please donate it!!!!

Not a baker or candy maker?  No problem!

Store bought and bakery goods are welcome too.

We would also be happy to have donations of clear basket wrap, clear cellophane treat bas and colorful ribbon too. Once again, we are offering incentives to the classes that donates the most baked goods by Friday, November 11, 2016:

First Prize:                Ice Cream Sandwich party

Second Runner Up:  Doughnuts for the class.

With your help we can make it another RECORD BREAKING YEAR!

Holiday Botique Basket

Hello Families,

I can’t wait to share with you the basket our room parents have put together to be raffled off at the Holiday Boutique!

Our room parents have worked hard to get many donations.

We asked families to donate 10.00 and there is still time to do so.  Please send donations to school in a marked envelope.

Thank you ahead of time.

Friday Newsletter, 10-28-16

News and Information

Calendar Items

Friday, November 4th – Half day of school

Tuesday, November 8th – No School

Wednesday, November 16th – Late Start

Wednesday, November 23rd – No School

Thursday, November 24th – No School (Thanksgiving)

Parent Teacher Conferences

You will soon receive an invite to meet for parent/teacher conferences.  Please fill out the slip and return to school if you are available to meet.

What We Did This Week

Our Alpha Friend was Hattie Horse, letter H

We worked in our journals

We worked in our poem books

We worked on “Read To Self”

We practiced our numerals

We practiced our cutting and sorting by shape

We worked in our Handwriting Books

We worked on fine motor activities

We worked with Mr. Iversile (the school social worker) on attentive listening skills

HALLOWEEN

Monday is our Halloween Party!

Students are welcome to wear their Halloween costume to school (please wear appropraite clothes underneath because we will be taking costumes off at lunch time).

The costume parade will begin through the hallways at 9:00 a.m.  Many parents stand in the downstairs hallway to watch – you are more than welcome to stay at arrival time.

We will enjoy games and a craft in the cafeteria and then head back to our room for a snack and movie.

Everything will be over by lunch time and costumes will come home in the student backpack.

 

Items Due Tomorrow

Many things are due tomorrow:

PTA Raffle Tickets

Box Tops

School Mall forms (if you are participating)

Milk jug craft for Haunted School (if you choose to participate)

Also, Haunted School is tomorrow evening.  Tickets are available before school or at the door.

Thank you.

Halloween

We will be celebrating Halloween in the classroom on Monday, October 31st.  At 9:00 a.m. students will parade around the school in their costume.  Students are more than welcome to wear a costume to school that day.  Costumes should be slipped on over clothes.  We will be taking costumes off at lunch time and putting them in our backpack.  Please no toy weapons.

We will enjoy a craft and games in the cafeteria afterwards.  There are still some items we need donated for the party – please see the link below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0C44AEA72EA0F85-halloween

Then we will eat in the classroom and watch a short movie.  We will also hand out treat bags. Each student is encouraged to bring a small treat to pass out.

 

Halloween Party

Our Halloween Party will be Monday, October 31st beginning at 9:00 a.m. with a costume parade around the school.  Please no toy weapons or scary masks.

We will then participate in games and crafts in the cafeteria followed by a snack and movie in the classroom.

Below is a link for party donations.

Thank you ahead of time.

https://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0C44AEA72EA0F85-Halloween

If you are available to volunteer and help with activities please email me.

ruselij@dearbornschools.org

 

Friday Newsletter, 10-21-16

News and Information

Haunted School

Friday, October 28th at 6:30.  There will be “scary rooms” and “mild rooms” to trick-or-treat through.  There will be food, dancing and crafts.

Calendar

November 4th – 1/2 day of school, 11:45 dismissal

November 8th – No School, Election Day

November 16th – Late Start, School will begin at 9:35 a.m.

November 23rd – No School

What We Did This Week

Our AlphaFriend this week was Benny Bear, letter B

We worked in our Poem Books

We wrote in our journals

We read Robert Munch stories (the students seemed to enjoy the humor in his stories)

We practiced our independent reading stamina with Read to Self.  Next week we will rotate through “Read to Self”, “Work on Writing”, “Listening to Reading” and “Letter Work.”

In math we continued to practice writing our numerals, sorting, and identifying numbers 1-10

We attended a choir assembly and heard our highschool students perform

We worked in our handwriting workbooks

We went to gym, art, music and media class

Please remember to return library books on Monday so that your student can check out a new one.

Have a good weekend.