Monday, December 20, 2010

Week of December 20th

We will have homework 4.12 tonight. This will be our only homework this week.

I am sending home the snack calendar for January and February today in blue folders.

We checked books out from the library today. We will be checking out again on Wednesday before our winter break, so please send all books back to school with students on Wednesday.

Our classroom winter party will be on Wednesday at 2:45.

A reminder that there will be no school starting Thursday, December 23rd. Classes will resume on Monday, January 3rd.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Week of December 13th

This week we will be having homework 4.8 on Tuesday and 4.11 on Thursday.

I also want to give a reminder about winter recess. Students can only go off of the black top at recess time if they have BOTH snow pants and boots. If students do not have both items they will need to remain on the black top area of the playground during outdoor recess times.

Also, now that winter weather has arrived, we will not be going outside for second recess. I find that coats, snowpants, mittens, etc are often wet after first recess. It is not comfortable or warm for students to put on wet items to go outside. Therefore we will have a short indoor recess in the afternoons.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Week of December 8th

I apologize for not updating the blog last week, I got out of my routine after our week off. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you have if I do forget again in the future.

For this week and future weeks we will be changing our spelling test day. We do multiple assessments on Fridays and it can be a lot for the students. We like to use our assessments to help the students to see what they are doing well and what they need to work on. With so many assessments in one day it's been difficult to be able to look at assessments with the students. So, in an effort to cut down on assessments in the same day and to make them more meaningful for students, we will be moving spelling tests to Thursdays. Starting this week, for the rest of the school year, weekly spelling tests will be given on Thursday instead of Friday. I appreciate your help with preparing your child for the test a day earlier. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

We will be having math homework 4.4 on Wednesday and 4.5 on Thursday. Both of these homework sheets are practice with measuring in inches. There is a paper ruler attached at the bottom that you can cut out to use. However if you do have a regular ruler at home this may be easier to use in order to complete the assignments. We have only been measuring to the nearest full and half inch. Do not worry about measuring more accurately than that. This is a skill that we are introducing for the first time in first grade this week, so your child might need some help reading the ruler.

Thank you for all that you do for your child. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.