Great News! Great Week!

Wow! We have been quite productive this week and have done reader response journals, gotten a good start on math with graphing, and learning to see ourselves and others as leaders. Thanks as always for your support and thanks for the many offers of time and dedication to our class. I cannot imagine sharpening as many pencils as Mrs. Weber did for the class this week, and I really appreciate everything all of our parents and community has done to help us get ready for a new school year. There are no words.

This year we will have a student teacher in the Fall semester. Maria LeStage comes to us as a community member and student teacher from Texas State. In the past, I have seen so many high quality teachers come from that institution, I can only be excited that we will have that extra help, support, and enthusiasm in our classroom.

This week will bring a few changes, but we are happy to have them. It will be a great year, and as always call me (or email me if you have questions). I will see you at the Tiger Prowl Monday night!

Language Arts: Procedures for Reading and Writing Workshop; Begin learning procedures for word sorts (spelling patterns) and choosing appropriate books
Math: Procedures and Expectations for Problem Solving and Independent Math Station/Game Time; Finish graphing (ongoing) and begin time to the hour and half hour and reasonable durations
Social Studies: Citizenship and School Leaders
Science: Scientific Process and Investigation: Lab Safety

Reminders:

• Students need to make sure and dress comfortably for the heat. Recess is at 9:30, so it shouldn't be too hot, but they should be comfortable going outside.
• Please send a change of clothes which will be kept in your child's backpack. We all know that accidents can happen, and this will allow us to handle this situation more discreetly.
• Students should wear P.E. ready shoes on Tuesday and Thursday. These are our PE days.
• Students may bring a healthy snack for during the school day. Please remember that colored liquids are not allowed, and snacks should be portable and create as few messes as possible. Students may be working on other activities while snacking and so minimizing snack messiness will be helpful.
• Students are allowed to bring a miniature hand sanitizer (provided by their parent) and kept in their backpack to sanitize hands. This will cut down on transmission of germs and colds. Teachers usually have non-alcohol based hand sanitizer provided in the classroom.
• Please return student take-home and reading folder daily. Please sign the daily behavior calendar and reference the behavior policy. It should give you a clear picture as to how your child is performing according to grade level behavior expectations. It is important that they learn how to transport these materials and they will be needed every day.
• Please encourage your child to do their best in the upcoming reading testing. This will help us to best place them in a reading group to stretch-not-discourage them.

Dates:

August 29th: Beginning at 3:30, we will be starting our Tiger Prowl. We will be delivering curriculum information to your home. PLEASE let us know the times you will be home or if you will not be at all. This will help to reduce the number of visits to empty homes :)

Sept. 1st: 5:30 Curriculum Q&A. You will have the information from the Tiger Prowl. Feel free to come up and ask questions of the teachers about general policies and procedures. Please note that this will not be a presentation and not a time to conference. Contact your child's teacher if a conference is needed. Goal setting conferences will occur later in the month.

Sept. 5th: No School

Sept. 6th: Reading Rally K-2; 8:15

Sept. 9th: Grandparents' Day

Sept. 11th: Patriot Day

Sept. 14th: Early Release - Students go home at 12:45

Sept. 15th: PTA Event

Sept. 26th-30th: Education Go Get It Week

Have a great week!