October 31: Newsletter

Happy Halloween!!!  We had a GREAT Halloween party!  Thank you to AJ Stanley for organizing the party.  Also, thank you to all the other parents that came to help out.  The students had so much fun!  Pictures from the party will be posted soon!

Here is the newsletter for the week.

Newsletter 

I am so excited to meet with you at Parent Teacher Conferences next week!  Feel free to come a little early to look through our class books outside of our classroom.  You will also have the opportunity to write your child a note and put it on his/her desk!  They will love the surprise note in the morning.

This week Tuesday, we will begin the Scholastic Reading Counts program (SRC).  Your child will bring home their book bag.  Inside the bag will be a book at their just right level (one of their library books), a bookmark, a letter explaining all the details of SRC, and a reading log.  Please make sure to sign the reading log each night your child reads at home.  Your child will need to read 20 minutes a night/5 days a week.  They will take a quiz on only ONE book a week.  That means when they have read their library book, they can read books from home for the rest of the week.  Library books will still be due on Tuesdays.  If your child is still reading a library book, they can renew that book on Tuesday.  Let me know if you have any questions about SRC.  We will spend a LOT of class time next week practicing all of our SRC routines.

Also, if you are ever cleaning and come across any books your family does not need, our classroom would LOVE to take donations!!!  If you have gently used books which are near a second grade reading level, feel free to drop them off at conferences.  I will have a basket setting outside of our classroom for any donations.  We are always looking for more books to fill our classroom library.  Thank you in advance!

Last thing...I couldn't resist sharing this with you!  During Lead Time this week, we talked about the word KINDNESS.  Students then came up with an acronym for the word KIND.  Here is what the word kind means to them:
K: keep going, keep being a leader, and keep calm
I: inviting, I keep trying, important, imagine, intelligent, and interesting
N: nice, notice if you are doing the right thing, and nice to teachers and parents
D: diligent, different, delightful, and daring