Tidbits

1 – Picture proofs were sent home last week. If you would like to order picture, there was an order form included in the envelope. If you would like to order reprints, please let me know. Since I only have a few of them, I won’t be sending them home unless you request it. Picture makeup day is this Thursday, November 15th. I will only send the children whose parents have reached out to me in advance.

2 – THANK YOU to the many parents who offered to help with our book labeling. I can’t tell you how much it meant to me. I’m so excited for our Dyad Reading program and truly feel it will be a great benefit to your children. I am hoping to have the program started before the end of the week.

3 – Several of you have asked about reading groups. We will be starting them after Thanksgiving. If you are interested in coming in and being part of our reading groups, please let me know and I will be in touch with more details.

Recap

We had so much fun this week! Between Red Ribbon Week activities and our Gary Hogg author visit, we had extra activities every single day. The children in particular loved our assembly and classroom workshop with Gary Hogg. He came to our class to go over writing techniques and also gave a great presentation about the power of stories, putting in our full effort and so much more. The children wrote some great stories!

With all the special events, our classroom excitement level was high and our classroom behavior was not as good as usual. There were several frustrating moments, but I am very hopeful that with a return to our normal routines this week, we will get back into our regular rhythm. I was very pleased with so many of our students that worked hard this week–some completed record amounts of work! Of course, our real goal is mastery of knowledge and skills rather than number of works completed, but I love to see the pride on their faces and in their voices as they realize how much they are capable of. It is truly a joy to be in class with them!