Welcome to a new school year! I hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend! In our Literacy block this week we will be sharing a few great stories, be sure to ask your child about Buddy and Earl, and the Elephant and Piggy characters! As we share fun stories about friendship we are getting to know each other, building our sense for stories, enjoying stories together, and developing or maintaining the love of reading we all want our kids to have! This time of our day is called Interactive Read Aloud, and we sit together on the rug in a circle, so that when we discuss different parts of the book we can all see and hear each other. This is a critical piece to building the kind classroom environment where students feel comfortable taking risks and learning about and respecting one another. We will also be working on Community Writing this week, which is where we work together to create labels, messages, and anchor charts that help solidify our understandings of new concepts and stories. Stay tuned for more components of our literacy block in upcoming blog posts!
This week you will be receiving an Everyday Math family letter. Look for it in your child's red take-home folder. You will receive a family letter at the beginning of each unit. This family letter provides you with answers to all of the homework problems. It also explains the topics we will be covering throughout the unit. Please keep this in a safe place so you are able to refer to it throughout the unit.
In our first few days of school, we will also be going over all of the rules and routines. A behavior agreement will be coming home today, and it needs to be signed and returned to school. It will be coming home in your child's red take-home folder. Please help your child become responsible for bringing their red take home folder to and from school each day.
Do you have an old sock laying around the house that doesn't have a partner? We would love to use it in our classroom! If you could send an old sock (or more than one sock) to school with your child, it would be greatly appreciated. They make wonderful erasers for our white boards.
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