This Week's News and Info

Info to Know

• No School on Monday, September 7 for Labor Day.
• Curriculum Night & PTA meeting: Tuesday, September 8 @ 6pm PLEASE plan to attend the curriculum portion from 7-8 pm in the classroom. This is a parent only night.
• Picture Day: Thursday, September 17 (please reference the flyer in the clear folder)
• Sally Foster fundraiser ends on Friday, September 11. Remember the class with the highest number of participants receives a $50 gift card for school supplies.
• Progress Reports came home on Friday. Please review and return only the signature slip on Tuesday.

Academic Update

• The first part of this past week, we spent catching up from my absence. We completed our shape and color books and stamped our covers. They should come home in the first part of the upcoming week.
• ELA: We are reviewing the letters we have already introduced (Cc, Mm, Pp, Rr, Ss, and Tt). We love using our letter charts with our pictures to write words in our journals. We using Cc word stamps to make patterns. Also, we continue to read books and discuss characters, beginning, middle, and end, and predicting. We will make our Aa chart on Tuesday and begin blending words and learning about the -am word family. Also, next week we will meet in our small reading groups and focusing on how to sound out words.
• Math: This past week we talked a lot about patterning. Ask your little lovely what a pattern does? We displayed the patterns outside on our bulletin board. Come check it out. Also, we used "math words" to talk about finding a partner using strips of paper. We found our partners because the strips were the same length, width, had stickers on the end or in the middle. Use "math words" at home to help with directions and descriptions of objects. Next week, we will continue to talk about patterns, coins, and numbers 0-10
• IB unit: We continue to draw and make a book for our Super Star of each day. Also, we talk about manners, feelings, and using our words to make good choices. Next week will be all about our five senses and completing our second book "All About Me."

Class News

• Thanks to our first in class volunteer, Mr. Banks, Alexis's dad. I know that many of you are waiting on your background check from PTA. I am hoping that at Tuesday's meeting we will find out more info.
• Also thanks to Mrs. Stanford, Caroline's mom, for providing all the girls with water bottles and stickers to decorate them. We will use them in the classroom and send them home on Friday's to be handwashed. I know that the girls are quite excited about them!
• Poetry notebooks are back on track this week! Please review it with your little one....this week's poem was a bit harder to memorize...and return the notebook before Thursday.
• Thanks so much to all that placed Scholastic Book orders! The response was awesome and I can't wait to order all the free books for our classroom!