Weekly News!

I hope you had a great weekend!  We are off to an AMAZING start to the school year and I am looking forward to our first full week as an entire class! 

A few important messages about this week:

*Please make sure you are dropping your child off in the commons area and not walking him/her to the classroom.  This helps build and foster independence.  

*I hope to see everyone at Teacher Talk Tuesday!  It is 7pm-8pm and will begin in the gym.  Grading & Reporting as well as classroom policies, procedures, and Q & A will be covered.  It is a night FULL of important information, so I hope to see everyone there!  Please try to find childcare but know that your child may come if absolutely necessary.  

*Our field trips begin this week with a trip to Imaginon & the airport overlook.  Please keep in mind the following regarding Thursday:

• On Thursday's trip to the airport, we will be eating lunch and discussing the various planes, etc. in accordance with our studies of transportation.  We do not pack disposable lunches because it does not make sense to teach reusing and recycling throughout the school year only to abandon it on the many many trips we go on due to convenience.  Therefore, I will send home a reusable Ziploc container with your child on Wednesday, the day before the trip.  It will have your child's name on it in masking tape.  Please pack your child's entire lunch in the container.  Water bottles and snacks may remain separate.  We will transport the lunches in a cooler to and from the trip.  At the end of the day, Mrs. Kang and I will wash the containers in the school's dishwasher to be ready for the next field trip that includes lunch.  
• Reusable containers will only go home the day before a trip where lunch is included. 

*I was notified today that MRSAEvents.com will no longer be a working website.  If you created an account, you can disregard it.  Instead, we will be using sign-up genius for parties, events, etc.  In fact, our parent-teacher conferences in October have already been set-up and are accessible at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EA5AD23A2FF2-parent.   

*An email went out this weekend regarding field trips.  Please make sure you sign-up as soon as possible so your child is not left out this week!

*This week we are learning about:

• inferences
• beginning, middle, end, characters, plot
• writing basic ideas and sentences with matching pictures
• colors
• shapes
• numbers & proper number writing
• transportation
• unique characteristics of friends and family