November 2-4 Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 4- Late Start
November 11- Late Start
November 12 & 13- Half days of school (parent/teacher conferences)
November 17- 50th day of school
November 18- Late Start
November 20- Half day of school
What's Happening in our Class
This week we will start learning about how to have an 'other people mindset' using The Positivity Project. Our whole school is going to be using this program to help us learn how to get along better with others. More information will be coming out about this in Mr. Hubble's blog! In Language Arts we will start our first Reader's Theater. We will practice reading short, repetitive sentences that use high frequency words we need to learn. A copy of these words will come home on Tuesday. Please cut these out and help your child practice them at home. In our morning meetings this week we talked about things that we couldn't do in the past that we now can do and things that we would like to learn how to do in the future. Later this week I will send home a simple timeline for you and your child to complete and send back in to help reinforce the concepts of past, present, and future. You can use photos or drawings of your child. We will put these into a class book to enjoy in our library.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
A HUGE thank you to Katie Mandarino, Katrina Schaefer, Catherine Kirshenbaum, Alaina Brady, Kari Cheevers, Hether Flynn and Emily Allen for your donations to our Halloween Party!!! The kids had a great time and everything was perfect!!! We had cute plates and napkins for our yummy snack of Jack-O-Lantern cookies and juice boxes. We played a fun candy corn counting game (and got slime as a prize), made a skeleton out of Q-tips, made a spooky jar with fun surprises inside, and had some candy treats during our Halloween movie. We also had a fun goody bag to take home! I missed not being able to have parents in as helpers this year, but the things you sent in were wonderful!
Because we were not able to have a parade this year or have parents in to help at our party, I have linked a Halloween slide show below so you can enjoy the costumes and see all of the fun we had!
Thanksgiving Turkeys
Please turn your disguised turkeys in as soon as they are done! We are going to hang them in the hall so we can enjoy them as we lead up to Thanksgiving!
Homework Calendars
Don't forget to turn in your October Homework Calendars. November ones came home last week!
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Please remember your scheduled conference time this week. I am excited to talk with all of you! I have linked the sign-up form below for you to check your time! We will be connecting via the Google Classroom meet we used in September.
Student Login Information
Earlier this year, I sent home a packet containing your student’s login information to several websites and apps that we plan on using throughout the school year. These are passwords and QR codes. These apps and websites are also important in case we have to switch for remote learning. Although we haven’t heard any news of us going virtual anytime soon, it is always a possibility during these uncertain times.
In order for you and your student to be prepared for virtual learning, we are asking you to practice logging on and using the following apps with your student:
SeeSaw
Lexia Core5
RazKids
IXL
Epic
Google Classroom
Please use your student’s information to login and explore the apps so that you are more familiar with them. We have had some time on SeeSaw and Lexia in the computer lab, but extra practice at home would be great too!
