We've had a wonderful first week of school, playing lots of get-to-know-you games, singing songs, learning the routines of the school day, and exploring classroom materials together. It's hard to believe we've only known each other a few days because this group is already working so well together as a team!
SUPPLIES AND ROUTINES Thanks so much for all of the school supplies, and to everyone who donated extra items off of the classroom wish list! We greatly appreciate your generosity! If you took something off the wish list but haven't sent it in yet, please send me an email at [email protected] to tell me the item is on the way. At this point in the year the only homework the children have is to read at least one book per night. Right now this might just mean they are listening to you read, which is perfectly fine. Before long we will begin reading simple books in the classroom and bags of books will come home for nightly reading that are on your child's just-right level. I'll let you know more when that time comes. For now, please establish a routine of reading nightly together. Blue folders are a very important way for us to communicate with one another. There will be many days when nothing is in the folder, but please check it daily anyway in case we've sent you a note or anything else that is timely. Return folders daily to help your child get into the routine of turning this in each morning. If your child is a walker, you probably learned yesterday that when it rains walkers meet at the exit doors at the back of the school. This will continue all year whenever there is inclement weather. Thanks for your patience yesterday! HOPES AND DREAMS This week we discussed what we hope might happen over the course of this school year. Today the children drew and wrote their "hopes and dreams" for the upcoming year. Here are some of the things they said (without student names attached...can you guess which your child may have said?): "I hope to learn about outer space and how to draw it." "I want to learn to read." "I hope to learn about pigs and their bodies." "I hope to learn about kites and how they fly." "I want to learn about the calendar." "I hope I can learn how to make some more kinds of potions. I have a potion kit and if it explodes we put on the goggles!" "I hope I can learn to read about plants." "I hope I will learn a new kind of art." "I hope I will learn how to be a scientist because I want to learn about worms and caterpillars and all kinds of bugs...even pollinators." "I want to learn how to play piano." "I want to learn to write and read spy books." "I hope to learn about space and do experiments about space." "I want to learn how to make outfits." "I hope to learn about safety stuff and firetrucks." "I want to do science." "I want to learn about art and animals." "I want to learn about snakes and animal scientists." "I want to learn about animals this year." "I want to learn how to read." "I hope that I learn about animals. I want to learn how they grow and how snakes shed their skin." Thanks for your support already! Have a restful weekend!
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Shannon Eggleton
8/7/2015 05:44:14 am
I think I just died from the cuteness. <3 Thanks for doing this!
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Margaret Ciccarelli
8/7/2015 05:50:57 am
It's been a great first week of school!
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Allison Mansfield
8/7/2015 05:57:20 am
Ha! I love it! My favorite quote this week was by a child who spent a minute looking around the classroom like something was missing. When I asked if I could help, the child said "Well...I'm wondering...at night time, where do you guys (teachers) sleep?" :)
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Shannon Eggleton
8/9/2015 09:41:42 pm
Hmmmm...I wonder who could have possibly said that?? ;)
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