April 27, 2014

  Thank you for joining us for our celebration today. We had a great time playing math games with you and showing off our math skills. We have been working hard on adding and subtracting tens and we hope you could see how well we are doing with this!  I am really proud of the children and the progress they have made in math.  Thank you to the parents that supplied our refreshments and our room parents for coordinating this as well.

We have started to prepare for our first grade play “The Weather Show”. You are invited to join us on Thursday May 29^th at 2:15 for this performance.  The kids brought home a note in their folders about this on Friday. We will also be having our first grade picnic on Monday June 16^th from 11 – 12pm. We hope you will be able to join us for these events.  

I also wanted to let you know that Mrs. Delaney, our classroom aide, will be moving to a new classroom at Eagle this week and Mrs. Dorsey will be joining us.  We will miss having Mrs. Delaney with us each day but she promises to stop by and say hello when she can! We would like to welcome Mrs. Dorsey to our classroom. Many of the children remember her from Kindergarten.  We are happy that she will be with us! 

Welcome back!

Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope you and your families have had a great week. We have a lot to look forward to at school over the next few months. 

Our next class celebration will be THIS FRIDAY – April 25^th from 2:30 – 3:15. We invite you to come in and play math games with us! Please send me an e-mail letting me know if you will be able to attend. Thanks! 

Our May and June class celebration dates will be changing and I will let you know more about this VERY SOON. 

Please check out the Eagle home page for important information about this week in which we will be honoring Earth Day and Healthy Kids week.  There is a context for bringing in a “litter less lunch”. 

Jump Rope For Heart deadline is Monday April 28^th if your child is participating in this fundraiser.  More info about this is on the Eagle page as well.

Your child will be bringing home their spelling list, reading log and math homework tomorrow. No homework was sent home over vacation. Homework is due on Friday. 

We will be celebrating Earth Day this week in class so don’t be surprised if your child comes home and encourages you to do all you can to make the Earth happy!

Springtime update!

I hope you and your family are enjoying this spring weather!! The wind is cool but the sun feels so wonderful! I hope your child told you about our visit to the garden to look for signs of spring. Ask them about it! We are working on writing about our "collections" and learning to give our opinion and supporting reasons.  In math, we will be finishing our unit on 2 digit subtraction this week. I am so proud of the children for working so hard on this unit. It is challenging, but they are really catching on.  Knowing their facts makes a big difference.  I will be sending home information on Monday about their fact fluency progress. If your child is not practicing their facts PLEASE help them with this.  I don't want them to get discouraged with the math we are doing. They are wonderful mathematicians and have learned so much this year! My goal is for them to move on to second grade with confidence in their skills.  Also, for reading homework, your child should be doing the majority of reading (if not all) at this time of year.  Its great to read to them as well, but it would be best if that was in ADDITION to their reading to you for 20 minutes.  Let them show off all their great reading skills.  Please contact me if you need help finding books at their level.  Thank you for all that you do to help your children come to school ready and eager to learn.  They are such an amazing group of kids.  I look forward to seeing them each and every day!