Sunday, October 2, 2016

September 30, 2016 Newsletter

Dear Parents,

It's hard to believe that September has come and gone and October is already here!  We have finished most of our apple projects and will be starting our unit on mammals and other zoo animals soon in preparation for our field trip to the zoo on October 13th.  More info about this trip will be going home the day before the trip.  Parents chaperoning the trip are Leigh Ann Shaw, Jennifer Walker, Kristin Lewandowski, and William Gates.  Please don’t forget to send the $6 to cover the cost of the trip this week, for both students and chaperones.  There is a Principal’s Confidentiality Meeting this Tuesday morning at 8am.  I would encourage you to attend it if you haven’t done one already.  It is one of the requirements for volunteering.

As always, we have been working very hard in Room 115.  The children are working on a class book, Apples Up on Top and will be starting another one, Room 115 Likes Reading next week.  All of our class books have started circulating to your homes.  Make sure to have your child read the book with you before you return them the next day. Please try to return them the next day so someone else can bring them home to share!

The children are finishing up their September writing journals and will bring these home next week.  They wrote their words in their best guess spelling.  We help them by saying the words with them and accept the letters they hear.  You will be able to see tremendous growth as the year progresses.  I would encourage you to keep their September journals so you can compare them to their journals at the end of the year! The students have finished their Brown Bear innovations and will bring them home as soon as they read them to the class.  Make sure to save these and all the individual books they take home.  These books are great for them to read and review often.  The small alphabet books they have been working on in class can also be kept and reviewed often.

I will be sending home some number writing homework.  Students should complete them at home with pencils and then return them the next day.  Hopefully the extra practice will help students learn their numbers better!  They aren’t always easy for those 5 and 6 year old hands!  I would also recommend students practicing letter and number formation in other ways too.  They can write letters and numbers in sand, salt, rice, and even shaving cream!

We will go to the library on Wednesday.  Please be sure to have your child return his/her library book when he/she is done with it.  Students will not be allowed to bring another one home until they return the one they already have.

We will start having parent volunteers come into the classroom to help from 9:45-10:20am this week with our art projects.  I sent a volunteer calendar home to parents who emailed that they were interested in helping.  I will send an email towards the end of the month asking for volunteers for the month of November.  You can respond with the days and how often you are interested in helping.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Melanie Duncan

PS...Don’t forget to label your child’s jackets, sweatshirts, lunch boxes, and water bottles with their names.  Thanks!

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