Week of January 10th

This week we will have homework 5.4 on Tuesday and 5.5 on Thursday.

I want to remind you that we are continuing to give the spelling test on Thursday.

Also a reminder that tutoring resumes this week with the usual schedule.

Week of January 3rd

Hello everyone. It's been great getting to welcome back all of the students after our holiday break. I hope that you all were able to enjoy any time off that you had with your child.

This week we will have homework 5.1 on Tuesday and 5.3 on Friday.

Reminders:
*There is no tutoring this week
*Wednesday is an early dismissal day

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.

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.

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.

Week of November 8th

I have not received responses from some of you about your conference time. I will be sending new notes home with those whom I still have not heard from. Please send these back to school tomorrow or as soon as possible so we can get our conference night schedule confirmed. Thank you.

Also, we have a field trip next Monday, November 15th from 9:00-2:00. We are still looking for volunteers to go with us. We need at least 2 more parents to go along or the museum may not let us come. If you are interested in going with us on Monday, please contact me as soon as possible.

Also, if you have not yet sent back the yellow slip to let us know whether your child will be having a sack lunch from school or will be bringing their lunch on Monday for the field trip, I will be sending a new one home and need this back tomorrow. If no note is returned I will assume that your child will be eating a school sack lunch.

We will have homework 3.12 on Wednesday.

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

Week of November 1st

This week we will be having homework 3.9 on Tuesday, 3.10 on Wednesday, and 3.11 on Thursday. 3.11 is two pages and deals with the introduction of dimes. *Please note, if at any time the homework instructions ask you to send real money to school for students to practice with, please ignore it. I have fake money that we can use to practice with and then students aren't tempted to spend their math money at the school store.

We've moved our library check-out day to Mondays. Please make sure students have returned books by the end of the week so that they will be able to check out again every Monday.

Thank you and as always, please let me know if you have any questions.