Ms. Jalee and Ms. Vanessa

Hello Parents!

We are so excited to announce that the Original Works order forms are here and ready. Please look for them in your child’s backpack. There are so many wonderful things you can order with your child’s artwork on it. These make wonderful Christmas gifts and grandparents love them. The best part of all is that all proceeds go to your student’s teacher for them to decide how to use in the classroom.

If your child’s artwork has already been turned in to Original Works, you will receive a packet with a picture of it and order information on the back. Please follow the instructions for ordering. If you order by Tuesday, November 5th, you will receive your orders in time for the holidays. If you are unable to order until after, no worries. You will still get your items, they just aren’t guaranteed by the holidays.

If your child’s artwork has not been turned in to Original Works yet (all of ours have), you will receive an order form as well as their artwork with the packet. Please fill out the order form and return it and the artwork to your child’s teacher. If you want to guarantee that you will get the items by the holidays, this needs returned to their teacher by this Friday, November 1st. Any orders turned in between the 2nd and the 12th can not be guaranteed by the holidays. This is the same if your child has not made a piece of artwork yet.

Please support your child and your teacher by ordering.

Thank you for all you do. If you have any questions feel free to email me.

Ms. Jalee

Hello Everyone,

We are fully entrenched in Fall now and the weather is definitely getting colder. Just a reminder that we will be going outside to recess everyday unless the state tells us it is too cold, the air quality is too bad, or it is a torrential downpour. Please make sure your child is dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing and that they bring a coat or jacket and other accessories as needed.

Along with celebrating Red Ribbon week this week, we will be having spirit week where children can dress up with certain themes of the day. Here is the schedule for this:
Monday-“Show your true colors and say no to drugs”
Kinder wear red, Level 1 wear orange, Level 2 wear yellow, Level 3 wear green,                       Level 4 wear pink, Level 5 wear purple, Level 6 wear red, Level 7 wear orange,                         Level 8 wear yellow, Level 9 wear green, Or wear rainbow colors.
Tuesday-“Don’t get mixed up with drugs” wear mismatched socks.
Wednesday-“I’m wild about being drug free” crazy hair day. (please remember we have P.E. this day and students will be participating in P.E. with or without crazy hair so don’t make it too distracting.)
Thursday-“Team up against drugs” wear your favorite team shirt or jersey.
Friday-“Saying no to drugs is no sweat” wear a sweater or hoodie in class.
**Besides the specific dress up themes, students are expected to wear school dress code, no jeans and collared shirts.

We will be having our class Halloween party this Thursday from 1 p.m. to about 2:30 p.m. We will have a Track It Forward sign up ready shortly.

This Friday we will be having a small Dia De Los Muertos celebration. We will mainly be learning about what it is and why it is celebrated, but we also want to celebrate our ancestors. We would like all students to bring a picture of an ancestor and come to school prepared to share something about that ancestor. It does not have to be someone they ever met, and if they are unable to bring a picture, no worries, a name and fact about them are enough. Here are two examples from me:
 This is my Grandpa Hutchinson. He had Parkinson’s disease and I don’t remember him ever being able to speak but he always whispered that he loved us and always had orange cream cycles for us.
 This is my Grandpa Stacey. I grew up on his cattle ranch. He expected his grandsons to work hard and had a soft spot for all of his granddaughters.

One more update for this coming Friday. Ms. Tiffany and I have a very exciting event to attend with a close friend to both of us, and we will be leaving at noon that day. Due to this, our students will be spending the rest of the day with the other lower el teachers. We have put students in groups of 2 and 3 and they will participate in whatever activities those other classes will be doing for the remainder of that day. Ms. Tiffany and I will be back Monday morning.

We finished our read aloud book Charlotte’s Web last week and were able to watch a short clip from the movie as a class. After doing that we learned about Venn Diagrams and compared the movie and the book. This week we will start our new read aloud book, Roald Dahl’s Matilda. I have not personally read this book, but I have been told by many teachers that is is a great read aloud.

Sorry to make this a long post, but there is one more thing that is very important that I need to address. These past couple of weeks we have seen an increase in students not bringing a lunch or having a very insubstantial lunch that is either not very much or full of sugary food that will not sustain them but just give them a short energy burst. Things like a fruit cup or a bag of graham crackers are not enough. We understand that sometimes in the rush of getting to school in the morning, lunches get forgotten or go unmade. However, just this past week we had about 6 instances where students did not have a lunch. When we can, we supply them with food from snack, but most of the time these snacks are just things like Goldfish or pretzels. Some ways to help with the chaos of the morning is to prep lunches the night before. That way things are already in their containers and you can just put them in lunch boxes and be done. If nothing needs refrigerated, pack the lunch boxes the night before and that way they are ready to just grab and go. Ms. Tiffany and I highly support encouraging children to learn to pack their own lunch, but in doing this, children needs some guidelines. Something she does is have the main part of the lunch ready for them and then allow them to pick a certain amount of things from different tubs in the pantry. For example, if the main thing is a sandwich, they can then pick from things like fruit cups, apple sauce, chips, granola bars, yogurt, etc. This way they are part of the process, but they are bringing things that are healthy and not overloaded with sweets. Again, we know life is crazy, especially when getting ourselves and children ready in the mornings, we both have children of our own. We want to encourage you to put more focus on making sure lunches get to school for the kids so they do not have to go hungry or just have something small for lunch. Thank you for your support in this.

As always, thank you for all that you do!!!

Best,

Jalee

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying your Fall Break. I know I was able to get some much needed rest and relaxation with family.

Just a few reminders. This week is Red Ribbon Week at school. This is when we really focus on teaching the kids to take care of their bodies by not doing drugs, eating good foods, surrounding themselves with good friends and be a good friend, etc.

Tuesday is also picture day. I sent home order forms Wednesday. I also shared the digital form in a previous post. Please see that post to order on line and for any questions.

Thursday is our first box tops store. Make sure your child’s box tops are cut out nicely and that they are not expired. I also helps if you count them and write how many box tops you have on the bag.

We will be having our class Halloween party on the afternoon of Thursday, October 31. I will let you know when the sign up on Track it Forward.

We finished our History portion of the school year with our home projects and this week we will be moving into geography. All levels will be learning different aspects of the study of the earth.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Thanks for all you do!

Jalee

Hello Everyone,

Picture day is Tuesday, October 22. An order form was sent home Wednesday, the 16 (today) Here is a digital order form. Overall this is the best way to order so you don’t have to worry about sending any money or checks to school with your kids. Pictureday

Also, here are some FAQs and answers:

Thanks!

Jalee

Hello,

Thank you all for your wonderful support with our field trip this past Friday. I felt like it was a great success and the children had a good time. Thank you to anyone who was able to chaperone, come with their own child, transport their child, or help our field trip run smoothly in any way. If you see Ms. Mikaela, please tell her thank you as she is the one you put this field trip together and ran all the behind the scenes work.

This week is Fall Break. We will not have school this coming Thursday and Friday, October 17th and 18th. School will resume as normal on Monday, October 21.

Picture day is Tuesday, October 22. Please be watching for the picture order forms to come home.

Box tops store is Thursday, October 24.

We had some wonderful home projects this past week. Ms. Tiffany and I have really enjoyed seeing them all and learning about new things. If your child was not able to get their home project done and presented this past week, please help them get it finished and brought to school this week so they have the chance to share their knowledge with the class.

Thank you for all that you do and all your wonderful support.

Jalee

Multiplication Chart and Word Sorts

Time Box and Word Sorts

Categorization

Golden Bead, building numerals

Collective and Plural Nouns (sorry about the glare)

Compound Words

Bead Frame

Multiplication Bead Board

Stamp Game