Tid-bits here, tid-bits there. This week's blog is full of tid-bits of information.
FIRST OF ALL - THANK YOU!: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for the wonderful birthday gifts I received last Monday! I will be sending thank you notes home throughout this week but they don't always make it home so I wanted to make sure to tell you thank-you here as well! FIELD TRIP INFO: Last Wednesday, field trip information for the May 4th field trip was sent out. Yes, I have received the e-mails from those interested in chaperoning. I always wait a full week after the information goes out before compiling a list. Please note - we are only allowed to take 6 chaperones with us. Some years we have had the exact number needed. Some years we have more than we can take. If we have more than we can take I will do a random drawing of names. Chaperones will be contacted tomorrow. Also note - permission slips and money are due by this Friday. GRADED WORK: Be sure to look at your students graded work as it is sent home in the red folders. That will give you ideas of areas in which to help your scholar at home. This week a bi-weekly will be sent home. It includes letter identification and sight-word identification. The chart shows not only how the scholars did this time, but also last time so that you can compare. Also be on the look-out for the written phonogram test. Keep it and use it as a guide for areas in which to help your scholar. PLEASE EMPTY BACK PACKS DAILY: Some students are acquiring a large stack of papers in their red folders and their backpacks. Please check their backpacks daily. Last week we also found some rather moldy leftover snacks at the bottom of the backpacks as well. :-P I do recommend periodically throwing the backpacks into the washing machine for a good cleaning. ;-) MOUSE SOUP: Students will need Mouse Soup next week. If your scholar does not have that book here please make sure it is here by Friday. Mouse Soup – Arnold Lobel 9780064440417 GENERAL ACADEMICS: Spalding phonogram focus - /ch/,/ar/,/oi/,/ur/,/ai/ Spalding word focus - day, eat, sits, sit, lot, box, school Math - Subtraction Science - Planets History - Famous presidents Literature - Little Bear UPCOMING DATES: Kindergarten Info Night: Tuesday, April 18 Restaurant Day: Wednesday, April 19 Clean-Up Service Project: Saturday, April 22 (This looks so cool. I already had plans for that day, though. I bet it will turn out really well. If any of you go, be sure to e-mail me and tell how it went.) Spirit Day: Friday, April 28 Admin Appreciation Day: Friday, April 28 Please see the weekly school Roosevelt Review that comes out each Friday for more information about upcoming dates and events. ON A PERSONAL NOTE: So do you remember when I wrote about reading last week and how the scholars who have recently discovered that they can read and can't seem to be able to read enough and have so many questions and the more questions I answer the more questions they have are just hungry for more??? Well, at my dance lesson last week I was describing that to my dance teacher. He listened for a bit and then said, "Are you just like your kindergarteners? Are you feeling that way too about dancing?" "YES!" I yelled into his face. "That is exactly how I feel!" He then spent the rest of the lesson patiently answering every single question that I had. NAME THE GOOD: -Birthday balloons - Scholars that are reading - Salsa dancing - Recesses that are not too hot, not too cold, but just right Have an exciting week!
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