First week!

Dear Families,

We had a great first week getting to know our new students and returning students!  We spent a lot of time getting to know each other and learning new names and classroom procedures.  Overall, things went very smoothly!  Thank you for sending your children prepared with their supplies.  We now have things organized and ready to go!

Next week we will easing into more lessons and work.  We will also be starting our new Daily 5 reading curriculum.  We are still in need of new and used books to add to our classroom library.  We would appreciate any donations you would be willing to make.

Parent Orientation will be Thursday, September 4th from 6:30-7:30. Come anytime during that hour to meet Ms. Krista and Ms. Sharon and look around our classroom.  We are looking forward to meeting the parents of all our wonderful students!

If you are interested and willing to become a certified driver for classroom field trips, Academic West will be available during that hour to get your background check and fingerprinting completed. This would greatly benefit our class in allowing us to take more field trips throughout the year.  They will also be able to answer questions you might have about this process.

 

Snack sign-up reminder!

Dear Families,

School is starting Monday!  This is just a reminder that we would really appreciate it if everyone could each sign up to bring snack for 2 weeks during the school year.  We still don’t have anyone signed up to bring snack in the first week of school.   If you are having trouble accessing the snack sign-up link, try copy and pasting the link in a new tab instead of clicking on it directly.  Thank you!

Here it is again:  http://wejoinin.com/sheets/tkrhz

We have 30 students.  Here are some snack suggestions:

  • • Raisins or other dried fruit
  • • Granola or granola bars
  • • Crackers
  • • Trail mix
  • • Pretzels
  • • Goldfish crackers
  • • Cheezits
  • • Rice cakes
  • • pickles
  • • Graham crackers
  • • Tortilla chips & salsa
  • • Nuts
  • • Cheese (block, sticks, etc)
  • Dry cereal
  • Bagels and cream cheese
  • Orange juice, apple juice, white grape juice, (nothing that could stain the carpet)
  • Whole wheat bread, or other healthy bread varieties
  • Fresh fruit;apples, bananas, grapes, strawberries, etc
  • Canned fruit; peaches, pears, etc.
  • Pre-cut veggies: cucumbers, carrots, celery, etc. with Ranch dressing
  • fruit snacks
  • Yogurt and granola
  • gogurts

*** Please no candy, pop, or red juices

Exciting online reading program!

Dear Families,

A parent of one of my students has generously paid for a subscription for our entire class to use an online reading program call Raz Kids. This subscription includes access to dozens of books (fiction and non-fiction) through a range of reading levels. So far my student who has been using it at home loves it and his mom is very excited about this reading program. We’ve also heard great things from other parents who have used it.

I have added each student to my class account. You will just need to go to www.raz-kids.com and go to student login. The user name is: mskristasclass. From there you will just select your child’s name from the list and they can start reading. I have tried to match each of my returning students with their appropriate reading level. However, I had to estimate the ability of many new students. Please let me know if I need to adjust the reading level for your child. I really encourage you to have your child log-on soon and check it out.

Have fun reading!

Ms. Krista