September 3, 2012

I trust you have all had a pleasant three day week end! It was lovely to meet so many people last Thursday at the open house dinner at the school. Even with hunting season, there seemed to be a good turn out and of course lots of good food. I have added a couple of pictures from the event for you to see.

The students are settling in nicely to the new school year. We have been working on literature and language skills, and practicing following one step directions. In math we have be working with math manipulatives, numbers, and graphs. The students are pictured here, making a real graph of boys and girls in our class. A few days later they made a little paper person to represent themselves in a picture graph.

Please note that I will be sending home a folder nightly with a simple assignment for each student to do at home as additional practice to their daily lessons. In addition, I will be sending home a reading book nightly for each student to have read to them. If you have other books at home to read to your child and prefer to read those, please just write those down on the log sheet and send the other book back to class. For doing their home fun assignment nightly, the students will get a sticker and at the end of the month they can pick from our treasure chest as a reward. Reading to young children is the number one factor for student achievement. Please make the time to read a short book nightly to your child. As time progresses, I will be sending home simple books that your child can read to you. For now though, just let your child learn to love books by being read to.

Also, at the end of each week, I will be sending home each child’s class work to share with their family. Please ask your child about what they have learned.If you have any questions, please stop by the school or call.