Announcements January 2000
Welcome to the New Year 2001!
We are off to a great start in the new year of 2001! The class is working hard on:
SCIENCE (solar system and water habitat study)
LITERACY (reading books and doing writing projects using our Bird Print Writing Process)
SOCIAL STUDIES( learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., studying Spanish, studying geography, doing an online project with other schools called "A Sense of Caring" and starting a new online project called "Family Elders")
MATH (quilt math, math facts/computation, and clocks/time)
The class is working in small groups to do science, literacy, math, and social studies projects. Each group is named after a continent and each group cooperated in making a list of good work habits. The groups are doing a great job of learning together and helping each person in the group succeed in learning!
Important Information: Check the announcements below!
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Take Home Folders/ Reading Book Bags/ Home Learning Activities 1. Take Home Folders: Thank you for making sure your child brings his/her take home folder to school each day and that you check the folder each night for notes and announcements. The children bring these folders back and forth each day whether or not there are new papers in the folders. Doing so is an important process of home/school connection. Without the folders, important papers can get lost. Help your child remember to show you the folder each school day and to have the folder back in his/her backpack for the next school day. 2. Reading Book Bags: Soon, we will be sending special plastic zip-lock bags with books for you and your child to read at home in the evenings. Listen to and help your child practice reading the book, he/she brings home and be sure he/she reurns it to school the next day (even if your child hasn't finished reading the entire book). We use these books in the classroom as well as at home. Click on Reading Book Bags to learn how you can help your child with reading at home. 3. Home Learning Activities: Along with our classroom curricular projects, you can help your child meet state and district education standards through home learning activities in math, spelling, and writing. Help them practice addition and math facts for the numbers 1 to 20. Help them practice telling time first for the hour and half hour, then for fiftenn and forty-five intervals, then for minutes by fives, and finally for all minutes of each hour. Take the following link to help your child practice reading and spelling our list of high frequency words. 4. Super Classroom Spelling Words: We work on spelling for words that we are use in our stuyding and writing about in our classroom projects including lessons in Math, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, and Reading. Go to this link Super Classroom Spelling Words to find our super spelling words! Enjoy working with your child to learn these challenging spelling words. |
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Winter
Weather: Children go outside for recess
three times a day unless the weather is very cold, windy, or wet. Thank
you for being sure your child comes to school with a
warm winter coat,
gloves or mittens,
a hat or hood to
cover the head, and outdoor boots or shoes.
We continue to take field trips to the nearby
pond to do science observations during the winter months so each child
needs winter clothing to be warm on these walks outdoors.
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Cold
and Flu Season: During
the winter cold and flu season, we want to do all we can to keep our
class and each child healthy and strong. If your child has cold or flu
symptoms and illness, please keep him/her home until well. A sick child
has a hard time doing school activities and needs to be home to rest
until well. Additionally, if a child comes to school with a contagious
illness, he or she spreads that illness to classmates and teachers.
Please be sure we have all your phone numbers plus emergency family
or friends phone numbers on file in the office and classroom so there
will be no delays should we need to contact you because your child is
ill and needs to go home. Thank you for caring for your sick child at
home until he/she is well.
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