News from Mrs. Weaver

1. News from Mrs. Weaver Important Notes August Transportation: If your student’s transportation changes let me know, PLEASE. You can e-mail me, call me, or just send a note with your child, I always check to see if there is mail each morning. Snacks: It is up to you to send your child with a snack each morning. Birthdays: I will send home a note a week before your child’s birthday with information on what you can send for their special day! Star of the Day ! For the next 6 weeks we are doing the STAR of the day. You will get a note home a week before their day explaining what to do. This is your child’s chance to tell all his/her new friends who they are. Please put pictures, drawings, stickers, etc. whatever your child wants that describes them. Please limit the pictures to 10. On that day, please bring a special treat for the class (about 22) and remember we are PEANUT FREE. This is also your time to come on in to our classroom, if your or a grandparent are able to come in and help your child as they describe their poster, that would be wonderful!! (If you need white poster board let me know) Occasionally we need help with special supplies for class projects. I usually make a rotation schedule about who I ask. So if you receive a note to donate a specific supply, please know that we really need the help. Thanks for the understanding! Also, we are always looking for simple house hold items to use in our classroom. For example, if you have any cookie cutters, beads, buttons, film canisters, storage containers, etc. we would be more then welcome to take them off your hands. We will also be doing different projects with magazines, so if you have an old “school” appropriate magazines or even Zoobook magazines, etc., we would gladly take care of them for you . Usually we can recycle anything!

2. News from Mrs. Weaver Important Info! September Book Orders: I will send home Scholastic Book Orders at the beginning of this month. This is a great way to add to your home library and also help out our classroom! *Book Orders are due: Friday, Sept. 13th Water Bottles: After some trial and error I would like each student to bring their own water bottle to school. These will stay at the school on their desks to decrease the amount of movement in and out of the room! Please send ASAP. Monthly Calendars Every month I am going to send out a calendar with our ‘specials’ for each day and any other important dates you may need to know. Whenever you see P.E., it is your job to make sure that your child has the appropriate shoes to wear. Our specials include guidance, computer, extension (extra classroom time), music, library, P.E., and art. This month and next month you will find a name on each day. If you see your child’s name that is the date of their star of the day you signed up for. I will be sure to send you a note with information on what to do for that day! If you have any questions please let me know  September Birthdays! KoriKeil- September 23rd Anna DuFloth- September 27th

3. News from Mrs. Weaver October A Few Notes • Blankets and Pillows: • We are working up to not needing a rest time during the day so we will be shortening out rest time and slowly sending out rest time items home. We will be sending home blankets October 1st. I would like to have pillows home by November 1st. So keep an eye out for those items coming home. • Release Time: • If you pick up your child on the playground after school everyday, please be sure to wait for us on the playground. As a safety precaution, we will only release on the playground, not the bus alley. • Water Bottles: • We will now be sending home water bottles at the end of every week. Please be sure to send back, washed, the following Monday. Thanks! What We’re Learning! We are now over a month into school and getting into the routines of our classroom. We will continue working to establish our classroom culture and learning how to work together. A focus will be kindness this month, learning to be kind to our friends. We will working on putting others before ourselves and using kind words while we speak to one another. This month we are starting our adventures through the alphabet while learning the sounds of each letter. We will learn to say the sounds, write the letters, and even find them in words. We are also getting into our Math Investigations Workshop where we will be focusing on counting and different way to use these numbers we find. With this we will begin comparing and ordering different sets of objects and numbers. We will have some fun themes like fire prevention week, pumpkins, and monsters! October Birthdays! Preston- October 6th Nico- October 12th

4. News from Mrs. Weaver Upcoming Events November • Nov. 11: No School- InService • Nov. 20: End of the 1st Trimester (Keep an eye out for Progress Reports to come home). • Nov. 27-29: No School Thanksgiving Break! • Notes • Pillows: Pillows are coming home this month. We will still take about 15 minutes of rest time this month but we will slowly move to no rest by the end of the year! • Snacks: I have noticed quite a few of the kids no longer bringing snacks to school. PLEASE remember to send on every day in their front pocket of their backpack!! • Pick-up: If you pick up your child on the playground after school, you MUST pick up inside the fence and not in the bus alley. Thank you! What We’re Learning! • November will be such a fun month of remembering what we are thankful for and doing all sorts of fun turkey activities. We will be working this month to use respect whenever we are talking with an adult and our friends! • We will finish our adventure through the Alphabet and have an Alphabet Party! We will begin working on sight words, punctuation, and more writing. • In Math we will be continuing in our unit of counting and comparing numbers along with sets of objects. We are also working on identifying our teens numbers. • Also, please be sure that when you get your “Nightly Reading Record Sheet” home, be sure to fill it out as you read with your child. If you read 5-10 minutes every night, fill it out, and send it back to school. Your child will receive a Book It coupon for Pizza Hut!. Keep on reading!! November Birthday’s Aliya- November 19th

5. News from Mrs. Weaver Upcoming Events December • December 4th: • Early Release @ 1:00 • December 5th: • Gingerbread Day @ • 8:45-10:15. • Please be sure to come and watch your child sing Christmas songs, then to help them make gingerbread houses! • Dec. 23- Jan. 3 • Christmas Break! • School will resume January 6th. • No Birthday’s this month! • Have a Merry Christmas!! What We’re Learning! This month will be filled with all sorts of learning activities using the theme of Christmas. We will be learning measurement with gingerbread men, writing about Christmas tree decorations, and new sight words through Christmas stories. This month is a quick month but we will be sure to load it with fun and learning! We are currently working as a class on earning a Pizza and P.J. Party. We just had a Movie and Ice Cream party because we earned enough marbles through respectful choices on the carpet. Each child now has chosen their own carpet spot so that we can learn how to self-control and be responsible for the place they chose. I am confident that they will learn to take ownership and responsibility for their choices! The 12 B’s of Christmas! This month we will be working, as a school, on our 3 B’s. We are calling it the 12 B’s of Christmas. Children who are making a good choice according to our 3 B’s in the hallway will earn a “B card”. After they earn 12, Santa (Mr. Soriano) will come and visit them with a special treat! We are excited to work as a class to achieve our goal for each student!