Book Order Forms Went Home This Week

Book order forms went home this week.  Orders are due next Friday.  All of the information is on the Book Order page of the blog.  Have a great long weekend!

Today we painted bookmarks!

Parent Help Needed

I need a parent volunteer to file papers for Thursday folders each week.  Is there a parent available on Tuesday or Wednesday mornings to take on this job?

Great work by a Shark!

Great work by a Stingray!

The second grade was given a great gift today!

I just received news that the Bill Gates Foundation and the Christopher family are going to donate 60 subscriptions of Time Kids to our second grade class!  I am so excited that our students are going to each get their own subscription.  I was only going to be able to afford 10.  Thank you Gates Founadation and the Christopher family!

We had a great week!

We survived our first week of school!  I don’t know about all of you parents, but I am exhausted!  I think we had a pretty good first week.  Your kids are all pretty spectacular.  I am looking forward to a great year.

We had our first “Enrichment Wednesday” and I can already tell you that it is going to be my favorite day of the week.  Our students work so hard on their academics that it does my heart good to see them enjoying something fun.  We had our classical music going, the creative juices were flowing, and your kids were having a great time.  Soon the students will get to choose their own enrichment classes, but I am so thankful to get to start out with my own kids.  You can learn a lot about someone by watching them be creative.  They have requested painting next week, so I am thinking watercolor bookmarks.

We are starting reading centers next week.  I did want to let you know ahead of time that I am going to be very strict on talking during centers.  Please don’t freak out if your child has a few negative Dojo points this week.  In order for centers to work, the independent centers cannot be socializing.  It is an adjustment, but hopefully if we start out on the right foot the rest of the year will go smoothly.

Have a great weekend, hug your kids for me, and I will see you all on Monday!