Hello Everyone,
We made it through our first week of school. I feel like it was a great week and I have really enjoyed getting to know all kids new to our class a little more and catch up with the kids who are returning. We did a lot of fun getting to know you games and team building games. We will continue to do more get to know you things and more team building throughout the next couple weeks and also throughout the year. We have also been learning grace and courtesy. This includes things like walking respectfully in the halls, how to reply to someone who greets you, and washing hands as well as many other things. Though we hit on these hard at the beginning of the year, we will continually practice them and review them as needed throughout the year.
This week we will begin some works. We will ease into our work cycle by doing a few works a day and adding as the students are ready. We will be working on writing as well as cultural. We will also be doing assessments in all areas to make sure students are doing works where they are ready.
I have posted the Year at a Glance for our classroom at the top of the blog. Please take a look at it and mark important dates on your personal calendar. I have not yet included field trips and home projects as all the details on these have not been finalized. I will get this information to you as soon as I have it.
We are in need of a room mother or co room mothers. Some responsibilities you will have as a room mother is helping set up car pools for field trips, helping arrange class parties, as well as helping with teacher appreciation week. Please let me know if you would be interested. We will be having a field trip on Friday, September 21st to Weber State for a presentation from the U of U children’s dance company. I am happy to help whoever is the room mother with setting up sign ups for this. Also, if you are available to give rides to this field trip, we will leave the school probably at 11:45 a.m., please let me know ASAP. If you can take your own child, please let me know.
***Last thing, this year we have a student who is allergic to nuts. Please do not send peanut butter or anything with nuts for snack. Children are welcome to have these things in their lunch as we will closely monitor students to make sure there is not sharing. We appreciate your help in this for the safety of all our students.
Thank you for all your support. I love all the kids already. We have such a wonderful class.
Jalee