Week Seven Update

Info to Know

• Field trip permission slips and money are due Tuesday! Please let me know if you need another slip. Late slips and money will not be accepted.
• Phoenix of the Month: Cydney has displayed respect for others. Congrats!
• We are slowly launching our Accelerated Reader (AR) program. This program allows for the girls to choose books within their reading range, read them, and then take a comprehension test on the computer. They took their first test on Friday on their reading group book. Look on Monday for an info sheet for parent access. If you are able to level some books, either at home or at school, please let us know!
• Please be sure to return the forms distributed at Parent-Teacher conferences. They were due on Friday, Sept. 24.
• Your little darling should have brought home her orange vocabulary notebook. Please review it with her, help her place her pages in it, and return it on Monday.
• Does anyone have a play cash register we can use? I would like to set up a "classroom store."
• There will not be a bi-weekly progress report this week due to report cards being issued next Friday, October 8.
• Half day--noon dismissal--Wednesday, October 6
• Thanks to Shannon, Willow's mom, for getting our t-shirt order together AND getting them donated!! Thanks to Holly, Gigi's mom, as well for getting the ideas and thoughts together in the artwork! I am SO excited to see them!
• Shannon has also created a writeboard for classroom volunteering. Check it out! If there are other times you would like to volunteer, please let us know! We can always use help!
  

Academic Update

• Last week we began our Nature's Needs unit. We discussed the difference in living and non-living things, what we already know, and what we want to learn. In math, we began counting coins (nickels & pennies), making trades, and explored some new math tools.
• This coming week we will begin our inquiry of plants. The girls are very interested in how leaves change, planting, and why we need plants. We will define and expand our vocabulary learning about photosynthesis. In math, we will write number models (number sentences) and have our unit two assessment at the end of the week. If you want to help us, we are even going to try to plant on Friday..should need extra hands.

Weekly Update

Info to Know

• Class Social: Tomorrow, Saturday, September 18 at the Kok Lakehouse! I know the girls are VERY excited about this. Please bring life jackets, if you have them, drinks, swimming attire and accessories, camp chairs, and whatever you signed up to bring. Looks like we are expecting 54 according to the Evite RSVP! When you get on Ernest Gibson Road look for the white with orange writing 'Peter Kok' signs. Those will make the tricky part easy! Parking might fill up fast so you can also park on the road at the top and walk down to the Par-tay! Don't forget your sunscreen!
• Poetry Notebooks are supposed to come home every Friday. If your little darling forgets to bring hers home, please help to remind her. This year there are more responsibilities on the girls...I don't hand them these; I just remind them to take them home. Once they are home, they will need help putting them into their notebooks and sharing them with you. Your responsibility is to sign and date each week, only once, letting me know that you have seen them. The new poem for this week was Crayons. The poetry notebook should then come right back to school.
• Picture Day is Monday, September 20. Please wear uniforms and a smile. All girls will be photographed for the yearbook on Monday.
• I should know by Tuesday when we are expecting to have SAT 10 results.
• Please return permission slips for the Pumpkin Patch, a signed copy of the STAR parent report, and the other two forms from parent conferences.
• NUT day Friday, September 24.

Academic Update

This week was so off-schedule, but the girls did very well with the out-of-the-ordinary days! We completed our PYP unit, Heroes, with some very amazing displays of knowledge! Also, the caring projects were very diverse and thoughtful. Everyone did an awesome job! We also learned about clocks, reading them to the hour, and discussed the importance of labeling units of numbers. Can your little darling tell you why knowing how to read the clock is important?

Next week, we begin our Nature's Needs unit!! In this first week, we will discuss what we want to learn and review living and non-living. In math we will explore rulers, length, and dominoes, examine the penny and nickel, and learn how to count them. PLEASE SEND IN 10 NICKELS for your daughter's math tool kit by Tuesday. In writing, we will create a class story to demonstrate and practice the writing process and reading groups will restart. Back on track and starting fresh! It should be a great week!

Scholastic Activation Code

If you are wanting to place an online book order (the easiest way), please use the link to the Scholastic Book Club under Class Links. Register for your own account and use the class activation code: glfvv.
Thanks and Happy Reading!!

Quick Reminders & Notes

• Please come join me at the PTA meeting tonight!! 6:30—childcare will be provided!

• Tomorrow & Thursday are NOON dismissal days! After-care will be available. Lunch WILL be served!

• Please practice with your little darling her middle name(s). Many don’t know how to spell them and they are very curious!

• Wednesdays are media days! Please be sure to return the IWIA library books tomorrow. This could be a reminder to put in the agenda!

• Scholastic Book Order Flyers and books ordered last month came home today! Please look over the flyers and order online via the class blog link!! It’s only $1.00 to build your reader’s at home library!!

Weekly Update

News to Know

• Wednesday, Sept. 15 & Thursday, Sept. 16 are half-day noon dismissal days to allow for parent conferences. Students will need lunch and After-Care will be available. Please let me know if your daughter will have out-of-the-ordinary dismissal plans.
• Please be sure to sign up for a Parent-Teacher conference on our writeboard.
• IWIA is a Title One school. Further information will be forthcoming.
• Picture Day will be next Monday, September 20.
• Our first PTA meeting will be Tuesday, September 14. (First of only four this year!) Please join the PTA--it would be great to have 100% participation!!
• Thanks to all that participated in the PTA fundraiser!
• Caring Projects are due this week.
• Our class social is this weekend! If you haven't gotten the evite, please let me know. We are looking forward to it! If you have any extra child life jackets, please bring them along!
• Please be sure to open agendas to the current date when returning each day in the clear folders.

Academic Update

• Last week: peaceful heroes, number grids, number combinations of 10, unit labels, vowel combinations
• This week: clocks, telling time to the hour, explorations, pennies, PYP IB unit wrap-up & assessment, caring projects
• There will be no reading groups this week due to our irregular schedule.

Please check the writeboard to sign up for a parent conference. See your email for the password. These are scheduled for the half days (noon dismissal), September 15th and September 16th.