Mrs. King's Class

Just wanted to let you that we will have PE tomorrow, but we will not have it on Friday. The PE teacher will not be here on Friday so we won't be able to go. We had 100% attendance yesterday and today! YEA! Keep it up!!

Ms. Trowbridge's Class

This week we are learning the letters P and C. We will also be finishing up our math chapter on numbers 0-5. We are learning how to compare numbers, more than or less than. Everyone understands more than but most are having a difficult time with less than. This would be a perfect concept to practice at home simply by asking the students who has less than who. Please continue to be practicing handwriting at home. Yesterday, we did our first handwriting assessment for a grade. Students are graded on how well they are able to form the letters, some students are great at it and some still need some help. Remember, www.handwritingworksheets.com is a super place to visit to help work on the formation of letters, just simply type in what letters they need to work on. For example, this week's assessment was Mm Rr Ss Tt, I just typed that into the maker using the D'nealian font and that was their writing assessment. Please use this website often and have your child write the letters we are learning weekly. This way everyone will get a good grade in the writing portion on the progress report. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Ms. Wolters' class

We had a good week this week. We had our first test Friday on the letters we have learned: m, s, t and r. Most of the kids seemed to do pretty well but a few struggled with following along and following the directions. This will improve with time. Next week we will be having a test on number 0-5 and ordinal numbers first - fifth. Try playing some games using the ordinal numbers such as lining things up or who goes first or second in a game. The kids are doing great with counting and writing their numbers and letters. We read the story rainbow fish for the letter r and the kids seemed to enjoy that. We made a rainbow fish with a glittery scale. The story is about sharing and making friends so it was a great lesson on character. Thanks for all you do and I look forward to a great week next week!! Enjoy the weekend.

Ms. Wolters

Mrs. Wright's Class

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Mrs. King's Class

Yea it's Friday!!! We have now made it through the first 15 days of school. Wow!! We visited the Treasure Box today-everyone who was here got to go. We will start tracking points for the Treasure Box-a sticker day gets a point and if they get caught being a kid of Character they will be able to earn extra points. They will need to earn 10 points for a trip to the treasure box.
We are going to start earning class points as well. We will set goals and rewards as a class next week and I will let you know what we come up with.

A new homework packet went home today-remember it is not due until next Friday. Thank you to all the parents who remembered to send the homework in. If you forgot just send it in on Monday-last weeks only.

I hope that the invitations all got home for the Pool Party next Saturday-there was a misprint on the date-it is Saturday, August 29, 2009-the original invitation had Saturday the 30th. I correction went home today, but I wanted to mention it just in case the papers don't make it all the way home.

You may have noticed that your child came home with a green or yellow this week. I have really cracked down on interrupting, talking while someone else is talking and keeping our hands and feet to ourselves. Those seem to be the biggest problems. We will continue to work hard on these and other social skills as we also grow our academic skills. I have to say really for having 25 children in the room they are doing a great job overall!

Have a great weekend and I will see you all on Monday!

Ms. Trowbridge's Class

Remember, homework is due tomorrow. If you need more time to complete the packet, please let me know. A new packet is going home tomorrow, please let me know if you do not get one. I would also like to thank all my parents helpers this week, you have really made the week go smoothly for me. If you did not get a chance to sign up to volunteer and would like to please let me know I still have a few spots open. We would like to welcome Ms. Laura to our classroom. She is our new aide who will be helping us out everyday in the afternoon session. Make sure you are checking and emptying your child's folder everyday. We have had a few yellow lights this week, please make sure you are talking with your child about how important it is to stay on green. If you have any questions, please email me!

Mrs. Wright's Class

WE HAVE 100% attendance again today.

Super job students and parents for making it a priority to be at school each day. I will be creating our Volunteer Calendar for the month of September soon. If you would like to be added, please let me know at least 2 days and times that work with your schedule. Thanks!