Weekly Update

Sorry for the later than usual blog. I am aiming to blog regularly on Thursdays (fingers crossed).

Our second week was another joyful and successful week! I am so please to be teaching a classroom full of angelic geniuses!!

Info to Know

• Sally Foster Fundraiser starts today. Please look in your little darling's backpack for more info on this school wide fundraiser. There is a class competition! The classroom with the highest percentage of sellers will get a $50 Target gift card for school supplies. So if each girl only sells one item we will have 100%....the highest percentage possible!
• Thursday, August 26 will be a half day with dismissal at NOON. Please make arrangements for your daughter to arrive home safely.
• September lunch calendars came home on Friday. Please remember that lunch is a pre-pay program only! Please send in the lunch calendar with your little darling's selections by Friday with payment.
• Scholastic Book Club orders also went home last week. We have some online orders up already!! Check out the link. Orders are due by Wednesday, Sept. 2.
• I will be absent on Thursday and Friday out of the country. I have let the girls know, but please bear with them and the sub if things seem slightly out of whack. Due to this, there will not be any sight word testing this Friday.

Academic Update

• ELA-Last week, we worked on Rr and Tt, our 5 sight words, and our first poem. Did you enjoy the Poetry Notebook? We also wrote in our beginning journals and volunteered for sight word testing on the orange list. This week: Pp and Cc, 5 more sight words, 5 more superstars, and the beginning of reading groups.
  
• Math-We worked on our calendar routines and answered daily survey questions using tally marks and counting by 5s. We are almost finished with our first book "Shapes and Colors"! This week: We will work on personal information make a birthday graph, practice writing our phone numbers, and talk about the parts of an address. Look out for a pattern necklace!!
• IB Unit, Me, Myself & I-Last week we discussed our body parts and how we are all different, yet special and unique. Next week: our "Me" book, respecting others, and manners.

Class News

• Thanks to Lisa Bobb (Sadira's mom) for organizing the class social! It was so much fun and it was nice to have an informal time to meet! Also, thanks to all for the donations towards pizza, drink, and other yummy vittles!
• Thanks also to those parents that are helping in smaller, but very important roles (copying, creating, cutting, typing)! I love being able to send home "projects." I feel very supported!
• We are working on getting a Snapfish account to share pictures of the girls via a password protected site....keep your eyes peeled for more info!
• More thanks to the continued supplies and donations! Some immediate items we could use: old cell phones, play food, one small pillow. Also, please be sure to check out the Adopt-a-Classroom site. It allows for monies to be deposited into an account for our class to purchase classroom supplies such as construction paper, printer ink, and manipulatives through school and office supply stores.
• The resting fairy visits good resters each day. The girls are collecting "Resting Fairy Rewards" to visit the Treasure Chest. Each Friday, they may redeem five tickets for a visit. Due to my Friday absence, the Treasure Chest will open for the first time this Wednesday.
• Snack this week: T-Grace, W-Cleo, Th-Reagan, F-Kymani