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| Our wonderful Crew! |
Hi everyone! Here is the first blog for the year! I hope it will give you an idea of what happens in our room. We had an amazing start to the school year! I am thoroughly enjoying getting to know each of your children! When you see a caption that is bolded or it may show up as a different color on your computer, please click on it for more pictures. I'm going to try to shorten my explanations so please ask your child to explain in more detail. (I'm sorry if the formatting is uneven.) You can also check homework on the blog page. Please subscribe to my blog. After September, my blog will only come to subscribers. Thank you!
As part of Expeditionary Learning, we met in Crew every morning after announcements. Our goals for Crew were 1. Learn each person's name in our crew and 2. Learn something new about every person in our crew. Many of our activities this week helped us reach our goals. We greeted each other in different ways and took part in many get to know me activities. We also spent time learning about the quote "We are crew not passengers" by Kurt Hahn. Some of our Crew's explanations of crew included, "A crew is like a family. They always stick together and help each other out." "Crew never leaves one person all alone." "Crew always finishes." "Crew does our best work."
We also learned about protocols and procedures, along with labeling folders and notebooks. Mr. Blanchette reviewed lunch procedures with us. Ms. Sakai read Why Can't I Fly? by Ken Brown.
We also learned about protocols and procedures, along with labeling folders and notebooks. Mr. Blanchette reviewed lunch procedures with us. Ms. Sakai read Why Can't I Fly? by Ken Brown.
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| Tyndall leading the neighbor game during Crew. |
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| Kaiden sharing her "Getting toKnow Me" summer object! |
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| Mrs. Malloy's and our class walking from one end of the playground to the other and ending at the same time. Please ask your child about this. |
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| Mary Jane shares her summer mystery object. |
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| Liam shares the rope he made and his baseball. |
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| Rookie and Vet buddies, Noah, Parth and Tristan, interview each other. |
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| Students rotate through each paper and write a compliment or something they learned about each person in our crew. This was for our Crew goal #2.They brought these home! |
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| Finn is reading his comments written by each crew member. |
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We want to welcome Mr. Rinka to our crew! Please check out his family pics. Mr. Rinka and his daughter, Madison! |
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| Matthew, Noah and Aiko help to create our birthday graph. We also analyzed the data. |
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| Thank you to Maya, Rose and Piper, along with their families, for tending to our garden this summer! |
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| Zhi, Matthew and Cole role play "Knock on the door" before students practiced. |
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| Nadia leads our Mindfulness time. |
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| Mrs. Nolan and Mr. Hughes talked with our crew about band and orchestra. |
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| Aiko leads us in Bippity Boppity Boo! |
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| Gonoodle is one of our favorite brainbreaks. |
Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents
1. Thursday bags are due by Monday (or the first day of the next week.)
2. Please turn in the purple walking permission slip by Tuesday, Sept. 8th.
3. Please turn in the $10.00 (check or cash to Atwater School) for Scholastic News and the planner.
4. Please turn in $5.00 for a special end of the year book to help cover the cost of pictures to Ms. Sakai (cash or check.)
5. Please check over and initial or sign your child's binder each day through September to help get into the routine of checking it each day.
6. Band and orchestra sheets are due on Tuesday, Sept. 8th.
6. We will begin our Reading Log on Tuesday, Sept. 8th. Students should read at least 20 minutes every day and record it on the log. Because we know that special events, family gatherings, and children are involved in out of school activities, they may choose to skip one or two days a week as long as they make it up on other days. For example, in a 7-day reading day log, students may read 5 days but a total of at least 140 minutes. Next week (6 day log since we don't have school on Monday), students may read 4 days for a total of 120 minutes. Some families find it easier to read 20 minutes each day.
7. Vet parents: Here is Senor Becker's blog address. http://www.srbecker.blogspot.com. It is also on my Website's Parent Page.
8. My website address is: www.two4kids.net/room210review. My conference schedule, class photo and Parent Orientation packet will be updated soon.
Important Dates
Monday, Sept.7, 2015-No school-Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015-Thursday bag and purple walking permission slip due
Thursday, Sept. 10th-Parent Orientation-7:00-7:30 pm
Friday, Sept. 11th-No School-Planning and Record keeping day for teachers
Saturday, Sept. 12th-Atwater's Centennial Celebration-5:00-9:00 pm.
Friday, Sept. 18th-Ms. Sakai will not be at school as she is taking Mr. Stanco in for a doctor's appt. I will be available via email.
Monday, Sept. 21st-Picture Day
It has been a pleasure meeting and seeing you the past week!
Thank you for your cooperation as we begin our year!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Deb
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