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| Julia and Ananya talk in Math |
Dear Parents,
We have gotten off to a quick
start in our 2012-2013 school year. You
have already seen your child’s Home-School Journal. Thank you for writing in it
and sending it back on time J.
We have enjoyed learning (or
relearning) our many classroom routines and expectations. Ask your child about
these things:
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The flower tour
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Our three school
rules (be safe, be kind, and be responsible.)
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How we earn “warm
buzzies”
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How we use the
colored tiles in the hallway to remember how to walk in a straight line
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Our expectations
for being in Circle: “listen to the speaker, look at the speaker, no
side-talking, hands are empty, and we share our good thoughts.
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Our bathroom
signal
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Our “get-a-
drink” signal
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When and where we
hand in our Home School Journals.
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Class chores for
next week.
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Our class pets:
worms!
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Xander’s idea
that “if you think you can, you will”
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Wylie’s idea that
you can grow pickles: you grow cucumbers
and then you soak them to turn them into pickles.
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The great songs
we learned in Music class this week.
A few notes:
1)
please remember
to send in a spoon or fork with your child if he or she needs one to eat their
snack. I have a couple of extra spoons on hand, but it’s a lot easier on the
kids if I can attend to them and not have to step away to go find a spoon or a
fork.
2)
one student shared this morning that he got a
surprise from the tooth fairy. Another student called out, “there is no tooth
fairy. It’s your parents.” What I said
was, “just like we all have different last names and we live in different
houses, we can also have our different thoughts about such things as the tooth
fairy. Some families choose to believe in it and other families don’t. We don’t have to change our friends and
change what they think. We can let them be happy. And we can be happy ourselves believing what our family believes.
It’s ok to disagree with each other and still like each other.”
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| James and Leo sort frogs in Math |
3)
I am sending home
a refrigerator magnet to help students remember our classroom schedule.
4)
I am sending home a reading log today, and
I’ll send a new one home each Friday. Students should plan to read 15 or twenty
minutes each night, and you help them record what they have read. Pass in the
sheet on Friday to keep track of the wonderful books that have been read!
That’s all for now, folks.
What a wonderful class! A special welcome to two new students and their
familes: Chloe Pecor (an effervescent first grader) and Ally Clos (a
smart-as-a-whip second grader from Ohio).
Have a nice weekend!
Mr. Bolger
