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The most important news from last week is that we have a new friend!!! Room 115 grew by one and now we are a class family of 20! Please drop by for lunch and welcome our new friend.
The second biggest news from last week is that we have an assistant in the classroom for the majority of the day. Mrs. Fitzpatrick joined us on Thursday. We know that her favorite color is pink, she likes to play golf, her favorite food is pasta, her favorite restaurant is Olive Garden and her favorite number is 18. While you are meeting our new classmate at lunch, stop by and meet Mrs. Fitzpatrick and tell her how glad you are that she is a member of Room 115.
The third huge news from that short week is a new rewards system in our classroom. Each child has a card with spaces available for twenty hole punches. A punch is given out to the children that are making good choices, doing their best and following the rules. Punches are given out throughout the day in small increments of time. When a member of Room 115 gets all twenty punches, he/she gets to read our behavior notebook. It is kind of like a menu full of extra special things to do in the classroom. For example: walk around in the classroom in your socks, trading seats with a friend for one day, bringing a stuffed animal to school, bringing something for show and tell, working on the computer, using Mrs. McDevitt's supplies, sitting at the round table in the lunchroom with a friend, and wearing a hat in the classroom We should have people reaching the twenty hole mark this week. Exciting times!
This week we will be studying the letter "Nn" as in nurse in the night. With the following word wall words: is, him, out, then, have.
Earlier in the fall, grade level t-shirts were purchased. It is planned for the t-shirts to be sent home on Monday and can be worn every Tuesday. If you didn't purchase a grade level t-shirt then continue to wear regular uniform attire on Tuesdays. I will send an email home on Monday going over the exact "rules" for the grade level t-shirts.
Library day is Monday as is Italian Ice Day. I sent out emails to the families that still have credit for prepaying Italian Ice. If you did not get an email on Friday then your child does not have money for Italian Ice.
The children did not like waiting until 2:00 for snack on Mondays so I'm going to go back to having a snack time and then a Nancy's Ice on Mondays. It was too long for some students to go without taking a brain break. So scratch my idea of snack time and Nancy's at the same time.
We will continue to take a nap until January 20. January 20 is the end of the semester and nap mats will be sent home. TRUST ME...it is going to be a hard adjustment for everyone to drop the rest time. Be very patient with your child as he adjusts to a very FULL day of learning. (Meaning: it is common for more emotional late afternoons and early evenings as the children come home from school exhausted!)
I will begin Accelerated Reader next week. Look for a very important handout to come home on Thursday that will go over how I handle AR in the classroom. I have arranged for a volunteer to help me every Wednesday in the classroom as the children begin to take comprehension tests on the classroom. My handout will explain everything about Accelerated Reader, please be sure to read it.
Start sending in shoe boxes next Tuesday. Adult sized shoeboxes work best to make a mailbox to hold all of our valentines. The really good kind is the ones with a separate lid but they are more and more difficult to find so the ones with a connected lid will work too. No more toilet tissue rolls or egg cartons but still send in cool whip containers.
Information about our bowling field trip will come home on Thursday. You are invited to attend our field trip or pop in during our 9-12 stay at Brunswick Lanes on Friday, January 27.
I will begin report card testing this week. I will be testing on sight words this Friday. I will only be testing on the words from August through December. January sight words will be tested next nine weeks.
Book orders are coming home on Monday. Return money by Friday if interested. If you order on-line our code is GL88R.
No school on Monday, January 16 in honor of the birthdays of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee .
This has been long and thanks for sticking with me. Email me with any questions or concerns you may have.
On a totally personal note: If you do not have a connection to a Girl Scout for GS cookies then let me help you. My house is the cookie house for our GS troop. If you need any GS cookies then let me grab a few boxes off my dining room table. Cookies are $3.50 a box. The cookies arrive Tuesday and will be in my dining room until March 11 so let me help you with any of your cookie needs.
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