Today, on this Day of Remembrance of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, our Eighth Grade class prepared and delivered this prayer: Dear Loving Father, We pause to remember the great losses and courageous acts of September 11th. We lift up those who are still affected–families of the victims, police officers, firemen, first responders, […]
Dear Kindergarten Families, Here we go starting our 4th week of school! Your children are building stamina and working at a nice pace. We are working on beginning and ending sounds, rhyming words and writing sentences. Math finds us printing numbers, working with place value, patterns, and counting to 100 by 1s and 10s. Reading […]
Dear Families, Thank you for taking the time to meet last week during parent-teacher conferences. In the last few weeks, we have been busy learning new routines, taking assessments, playing games to build our class community, and reviewing math and reading skills. I look forward to this week being a “normal” whole week. Weekly Homework […]
Third grade families, Thank you all for taking the time to meet for parent-teacher conferences last week. It was wonderful to chit-chat and set some goals for your child this school year! We have a regular week this week. We will spend time getting back into our full days of school routines. Important Dates Friday, […]
Dear Families, Thank you to all who came to the conferences. I truly enjoy hearing your unique perspectives of your child. Please do not hesitate to email me if there is a change in your schedules or if your child has any changes as well. This last week was wonderful, we were able to fill […]
Dear Kindergarten Families, Hope you all enjoyed Labor Day weekend! I am looking forward to meeting with you for conference this week. Last Friday marked our tenth day of school. Before Labor Day weekend, we talked about community helpers and chose our class jobs. To help us to understand place value we choose jobs every […]
Third grade families, Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a restful Labor Day weekend. We are back in school and ready to roll! It was wonderful seeing so many of you at our Back to School Night last week and I look forward to meeting with you all this week for our goal-setting conferences! […]
Hello Families! First, I would like to thank everyone for attending our “Back-to-School Night” last Tuesday evening. I was so glad to be able to chat about first grade. If you could not make it that evening, I have send the slides via email. Many of the photos on the slides have links for you to […]
Our First Week of School! We had a wonderful 1st week of school! We talked about the characteristics of a good friend. This week, we made “Rainbows of Friends”: Red=Love, Orange=Honesty, Yellow=Happiness, Green=Sharing, Blue=Hard Work, Purple=Imagination, and Marshmallows=Kindness. This coming week we start Music and PE. Please have students wear their PE Uniforms on Tuesdays […]
Wow! Look at the beautiful chart we created about friendship! These first weeks, we will read stories about friendship and what makes a classroom happy. In creating our chart, they came up with many thoughtful ideas about what a good friend looks like. First grade had a terrific week! They have already learned many of […]