August 24, 2018

Dear Family,

Your kids are doing a great job learning expectations and making new friends!  We are enjoying getting to know each other in our morning meetings.  

Please be sure to initial your child’s green daily folder daily.  If there are any papers in the green daily folder, please remove.  Those are yours to keep.  I do not use a “Thursday Folder” since I send home the green folder home daily.

If you have not sent in your order/payment for Scholastic News, please do so by August 28.  We will use these weekly magazines in class.  The class t-shirt order is voluntary, but we do ask students to wear these during field trips and on field day so that they are easily identified as being in my class.  Thanks for your support.

For Friday’s science lesson on August 31, I am asking that students bring in an object from home that is round and will fit in their backpack (example: ball, cotton ball, marble, rock, etc.)  Thanks so much!

Next week…

Math: We will continue with number sense up to 20. Students will be asked to identify words associated with math (tallies, #s, addition, etc). Students will also model counting and generating numbers up to 20 by using different tools (ten frames, math racks, number paths, etc).

Science: We will finish up our unit on I am a Scientist and move on to classifying matter.  Students will begin to compare and classify objects based on their observable properties  such as: size, color, shape, relative mass, and texture. Students are asked to bring in an object from home that is round and will fit in their backpack (example: ball, cotton ball, marble, rock, etc.) for Friday’s lesson on August 31.

Language Arts:

Reading: We will discuss the expectations for how to shop for books in our classroom library.  Students will also learn about the different ways to read a book (read the pictures, read the words).  We will be practicing the different story elements through our read alouds to get us ready to retell a story.  

Writing: Students will be introduced to the parts of writing workshop. Students will learn routines and expectations, along with why we write, where ideas come from and the tools we use.

Balanced Literacy: Students will learn about important historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Sam Houston, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and their impact on their community/state/nation.

Campus News…

RUNNING CLUB

Starts next week!!!  7:10 am - 7:30 AM

*Monday, August 27, 2018 - 1st and 2nd grade Mondays and Wednesdays

*Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 3rd - 5th grade Tuesdays and Thursdays

NO Running Club on Fridays

Kinder will start Running Club in October.

-please wear tennis shoes to PE and Running Club!!!  

CAR RIDERS

To speed up pick-up process, please be sure that your child knows his/her car rider number.  

If you do not have a car rider number, let your child’s teacher know to send him/her to the office to get one.  (Note...If there are siblings, the youngest sibling gets the number and a duplicate backpack tag is made for the older sibling. The office handles car rider numbers.)

Box Tops

PE collects box tops to pay for equipment.  Please send box tops to your classroom teacher or PE.  Please label baggie with your child's grade on it. Mrs. O tries to have contest between grade levels!  Labels for Education is no longer a program.

Important Dates:

August 28 Scholastic News and T-Shirt orders due

September 3 No School/Holiday

September 13 Club Night 6:30 PM

September 4 Parent Night 6:00-7:15 PM in Room A114/A115

September 21 K-2 Assembly

September 25 Flu Clinic at school 7:45-10:45 AM

Library is every Wednesday. Please return books!