October 19, 2018 Newsletter

Dear Parents,

We’ve had a busy and exciting week in Room 115!  The zoo was obviously a highlight but we’ve had a lot of fun in the classroom too!

The students have been working on their “Mom and I Went to the Zoo” innovations.  These will be completed this coming week and will go home as soon as the students read them to the class.  Like the Brown Bear books that went home last month, I would encourage students to read them often!

In the art area, students finished their teddy bear masks, which we will use for a special Teddy Bears' Picnic activity next week.  The students also made Readers' Theater masks of different zoo animals that they will use to act out "Polar Bear, Polar Bear" by Bill Martin, Jr.  They will help write the script next week.

We finished our second topic in math and will be beginning our third one next week.  Our focus will be on numbers 6-10.  I would encourage you to review the daily math papers that are coming home with your child to help them get a little extra practice.  Students should also be completing the number formation homework that has been going home twice a week for some extra practice. 

We will be going to the library on Wednesday.  Please be sure to have your child return his/her book by then.  Also, please make sure you read and return our class books as soon as possible too.

I will be sending the November Parent Volunteer Calendar home by the end of next week.  If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom at all, please let me know as soon as possible so I can plug you into the calendar.  Be sure to include which day(s) you are available.  The volunteer time is 10:10-10:55am daily.

I will also be sending the Parent Conference Schedule home next week.  Thursday, November 29th is a conference day.  There will be no school for students but I am looking forward to meeting with all of you.  I will set up 20 minute conferences.  I will try to coordinate conference times with teachers of your other children, if applicable. 

I hope you have a great weekend!

Melanie Duncan

PS… I told the students that their homework for this weekend is to look for the funny “a” and “g” on signs and in books.  We learned about them in Fundations and they are excited to be letter detectives!