First Week

Welcome Parents!

The kids and I had a great start to school! Thank you so much for having them so prepared in every way. We have a great group of kids in our class. I'm sure they told you that I lost my voice at the end of the first day so it was interesting teaching a new group of kids on day 2 but they were wonderful. For most of the day, they whispered back to me. It was so cute! Thursday and Friday we spent reviewing school and class rules, learning about our classroom, and getting to know each other. We will dive right in learning about space in science.  In math we will begin by making sure we have all of our multiplication facts 0-12 fluent and memorized! In addition to that, we will review computation skills and begin a unit on data and analysis. As writers we will begin collecting ideas for stories  We will also begin to write personal narratives and study how to “zoom in” on the most important parts so it will sound like a story and not just a retelling. We read and enjoyed lots of picture books the first week of school, like, First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg and we read The Kissing Hand by Audry Penn,with our book buddies. Now, we are about to begin our first read aloud, The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes . As we discuss the book, it will encourage us to empathize with others and to treat them how we would like to be treated. We will also begin by talking about mental images and making connections to our reading in order to better understand our books.

I hope you have had a chance to look through your child's H.E.R.O Binder, if not, please take the opportunity tonight. Behind the important info tab will be things that need to stay in the binder all year like: our class directory, usernames and passwords for sites we use and H.E.R.O book rules. Please sign the "agenda" each night where your child writes homework. Our homework, will also be posted on our Homework Blog. This site also has links to other sites we use. We are starting out only doing spelling online, if your child does not have access form home, please see this link for the paper homework your child can do for spelling instead instead.

Anna Emaldi, Patrick Eaton's mom, has volunteered to be our room mom! Everyone please give her a big hug Parent Night! I am very excited to see all of the parents that will be able to help this year and give Anna lots of support!

I'm looking forward to seeing you all Thursday, August 14th at 6 p.m. for our parent meeting. Please bring your smart phone, tablet, or good old fashioned pen and paper.

If you have not completed the Technology Access Form, please do so as soon as possible.

If you approved the tech documentation at registration, your child may bring his or her personal device to school starting this week. Please echo my discussion with your children that when they bring it to school, school rules apply to sites they can go on, times they can use devices, etc. Also, remind your child that when not in use, they should be in desks, and go from desks to backpacks at pack up time so we don't lose them.

Have a great week!