• We glued new spelling words into our red notebooks today.  Everyone started doing the “star” words activity (2 times each word), if they didn’t finish in class, they should be finishing that at home.    During the week, they must also complete 2 more activities.  By Friday morning when I check their notebooks, all students must have 3 activities completed.
• THANK YOU to the families who bought a book from the book fair and donated it to our classroom.  We LOVE new books 🙂

Thank you so much for attending Open House last night!  Our room was very busy and I loved every second of it!!  I really appreciate you supporting your student in completing a few rows on their BINGO board 🙂   If you didn’t get a chance to sign up for conferences last night, I will let you know the open time slots when it gets a little closer to the actual dates and we can figure out something that works for you.

A few other notes:

• We visit the book fair on Monday to purchase books.
• This week’s Spelling Test came home in today’s folder.
• Unit 1 in Math has a lot of different skills in it – many of them are review.  Two of the skills that are our main focus are counting coins and telling time.  Please take every opportunity you have to help your child practice this at home!
• If you still have your yellow parent information flip book, you are probably waiting for our schedule to fill in that empty spot.  I have printed off a sticker with our schedule on it and will send that home next week (now that I’ve printed it, I am sure it will change ;).  For those of you that don’t  want to wait for the sticker:

Monday – Music  12:20-1:35

Tuesday – Media  10:40-11:25,  12:50-1:35 PE (wear gym shoes)

Wednesday – Art 1:40-2:25

Thursday – Music 10:40-11:25

Friday – 11:20-11:55  Library check-out, 2:30-3:15 PE (wear gym shoes)

I had this grand idea that I would post to our blog last night while I waited for Avery to finish her dance class – silly me 🙁  For whatever reason, it kept telling me that my password was invalid.  I greatly apologize!!!

My post was just going to remind you that tonight is Open House at 6:00 p.m.  Mr. Denison will have a meeting with parents at 7:00 p.m.

Again, I am so sorry for the late reminder.

Red spelling notebooks should be coming home today with our new words glued to the top of the page.  This week’s words are:  dog, went, bun, job, tub, pet, (challenge words:  special, friend)

Students should have already completed the rainbow words activity in class today.  If they didn’t finish in class, it should be finished at home.  Everyone must complete at least 2 more (different than rainbow words) activities at home in their notebook and return them to school on Friday.

As I walked around last week and checked notebooks, we talked about neatness and spacing.  I showed them some examples of what it could look like and I snapped a few pictures for you 🙂

• Monday is Picture Day!!!!
• Spelling Tests came home in today’s red folder.
• Tremendous THANKS to Nigel’s mom and Casimir’s mom for helping us decorate our Work on Writing notebooks today!  We could have never gotten that much done without them 🙂
• We checked out library books today.  Yesterday and today we talked about picking books that are ‘just right’…a ‘just right’ book is one where they can read most of the words and can talk about the story at the end of each page.  Please take a look at your child’s choices and talk about why they are (or aren’t) the best choice for them.
• Students are welcome to bring in a few favorite books from home to put in their book boxes for read to self.

• more math homework tonight – make sure you do both sides…
• Spelling homework is due tomorrow.  Each child should have at least 3 activities done with this week’s words.  We did pyramid words together on Monday, then they should have done at least 2 different activities at home.  Please make sure the red spelling notebook comes to school tomorrow morning!
• We are decorating our notebooks tomorrow.  If you haven’t sent in pictures yet, please do so tomorrow.
• Tomorrow is also library check-out:  if you checked out books over the summer, please make sure you bring them back tomorrow or you will not be able to get any new books.
• We are really focusing on being great listeners…we  have been discussing having our eyes on the person speaking and our body still so that our mind can process what is being said and the directions being given.  You can help us by giving your child a small pep talk about how important it is that they are focused on listening to directions.
• OPEN HOUSE is next week on Thursday, September 18th 🙂  I am super excited to meet everyone!!

Math homework came home today but it didn’t really copy very well – no need to panic, just have them do their best 🙂

• LATE START tomorrow!!  Students report to school at 9:35 🙂
• Picture envelopes came home today.  Pictures will be Monday.  If you are ordering pictures, you can send your envelope back this week and I will hold it for them, or you can wait and send it back with them on Monday.
• We are decorating our Work on Writing notebooks with pictures of people, food, places, vacations, cars, or characters that we love.  This may help provide some inspiration when we have writers block 😉   If you haven’t done it yet, please help your child collect pictures that can be used for this and send them to school in a baggie.  If I have a parent who has time later this week to come in and help us decorate our notebooks, please let me know…
• I am still missing 6 of the tan emergency cards that came home in the red folder.  If you still have yours, please review the information and make any necessary changes – then return it to school.

We saved Sammy the Worm from drowning this afternoon using only 2 paperclips, a toothpick, some tape, a straw, and a piece of string.  It was AWESOME 🙂

In other news…

• The PTA picnic is coming soon on September 9th.  I will be there from 4:30-5:30 so I hope to see you too!!
• Our first Late Start is this Wednesday the 10th…students report at 9:35 a.m.
• Save the Date – Open House is Thursday, September 18th at 6:00 p.m.
• Weekly spelling words will start on Monday.  Students will bring home a red spiral notebook on Monday with directions.
• Please work on collecting photos, stickers, pictures from magazines, etc… and send them to school in a baggie for your child to decorate their Work on Writing notebook next week.

Here are a few pictures of our week 🙂

Our 1st day was great!!  We were very busy getting to know each other and practicing some classroom routines.  Today your child brought home our information letter (with a handy magnet so you can stick it on the fridge!!) and a simple sheet for you to fill out that will give me a little more insight into your child. Please take a moment to fill out the white sheet and send it back to me this week.  Thanks 🙂