Newsletter

September 9, 2016

Dear Parents,

            This week we finished up our book on “All About Me.”  The students have really enjoyed not only learning about themselves, but also about each other.  We sent home their All About Me book today.  We worked on the book throughout this unit, please review the information about themselves on the front cover.  The students should know their full name, address, telephone number, and age.  Today we began talking about our families.  We learned about our family members and our family tree.  The students have a family tree for homework next week to do.  When you do the family tree please discuss it with your child.  I will have them present it to the class.  Usually all homework needs to only be turned in on Friday’s.  However, whenever you complete your family tree, you can go ahead and send it in.  We will present a few each day, so please don’t worry about which day you send it in – any day is fine.  In math, we worked on our numbers, the shape circle, the color yellow.  We also worked on the nursery rhyme 1,2 Buckle My Shoe.

Next Week:

Theme: Family                                                            Color: Purple

Story: Too Much Noise                                                          Shape: Triangle

Letters: Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg                                                            Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard

Handwriting Letters: P, B, R, N                                                                         I Caught a Fish Alive

Numbers: 2, 3

Reminders:

• Please remember to keep homework notebooks at home and return just the folder on Friday.  We will not take folders until Friday, unless your child is not going to be at school.  If you forgot to send in your child’s homework today, please send it on Monday.  We will keep a record of homework turned in.  Some days homework will be checked on Friday and returned that day or we may not return it until Monday.  Today was very busy, so it will be checked and returned on Monday.
• I did not collect the family trees today.  If you look at the calendar they are assigned for Tuesday.  However, I will collect them on Monday if you have finished.  I sent them back home today, so you can review over them with your child.  We will share them in class, so help them read over it.  We will share them all next week, so whenever you finish the tree you can go ahead and send it in.
• It is very important to work on your child’s sigh/ words or spelling words each week at home.  They should know the words they worked on this week.  Please review these words over the weekend.
• Don’t forget to save and send in box tops.  We are also collecting pop tabs (can tabs).  Please collect these also and send in.  These tabs go to Ronald McDonald house, so it is a great cause to collect for.
• Please remember that if you put your child’s books in their book bag, we will assume that you are done with them and ready to turn them in.  If you would like to keep them and not turn them in, then please keep them at home until you are ready to return them.  Please do not feel like you have to return them on Wednesday.  Please read over them several times before you return them.  Next week we will be on our regular book schedule of sending books home on Monday and then on Wednesday (if you return them).
• Don’t forget to write down the books you read on the reading log.  You can also write down books you read to your child at night.  But do not feel you need to write down every single story book you read all the time.  Remember the goal is 100 books.  And if you write down the books from school and a few story books from home, you will easily make it to 100 books.
• For math, we will be doing work out of our Go Math book.  Instead of working in the book, I tear out the pages we will work on for that concept and staple them.  Sometimes in the packet we may not do every single page because some of them are repetitive pages or we may not be doing that particular concept yet.  Sometimes we may have already worked on that concept and the pages were extra work to do when they finished another assignment.  In this case, your child may not have finished all the pages in the packet.  These are some of the reasons why you may receive math pages that may be incomplete or not done.  You are welcome to have your child work on any unfinished pages at home, but you do not have to return them.  For example, we did circle this week.  We did a sheet on circle and we worked on circle in our shape book.  Then we had some math pages on circle.  However, many did not finish these pages due to working on the other assignments.  This packet would be extra work on circle.  So today I am sending home what they did complete.  So if they work on it at home that is great, but again they do not have to return it to school.  Please let me know if you have any questions about the math pages.

• Just wanted to remind you to have your child here by 8:10. We begin putting up morning work around 8:10, so if they are just coming in the room it is hard to get the students started on our first activity while others are unpacking.  So it works out great if they can be in the room by 8:05.
• Your “All About Me” project is due by Thursday September 22^nd.  Please help your child complete something for this project.  We will be sharing them in class.  I will take any projects starting on Monday September 19^th, so if you finish before the 22^nd, you can go ahead and send your project in any day that week.

Dates:

Monday September 12^th:  Return books for Book-In-A-Bag if you have not already

                                    Picture Day – Please return forms if you plan on purchasing pictures

Thursday September 15^th: Progress Reports go home

Mrs. Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft