Newsletter 8-22-14

August 22, 2014

Dear Parents,

Hello!  We have had a great first week of school!  It has been so exciting around here, and all the children really seem to be having a good time and are excited for school!  This week we have done a lot of fun “getting to know you” activities, and have created several neat art projects.  Please make sure you check out the “Who Am I?” pictures hanging in the hallway right now!  These are portrait riddles, in which other classes and parents will guess who is whom.  We worked on summer vacation stories as well.  These kiddos are great writers and it makes me so excited for all the neat writing activities we have in store this year! 

This week we completed our first math Mad Minutes and Problem Solvers, and we finished the first two lessons in our Math books and Religion books!  We are discussing how amazing our God is!  We wrote Bio-Poems today, which helped the children share a lot of neat details about themselves.  The children are very proud of these! (and I am too!)

            Memory work will begin on Tuesday.  Our first verse is the Bible verse for the year: Psalm 119:105.  There is a copy of memory online, as well as in the books I sent home on home visits. 

There will also be Spelling Words next week.  These will come home Monday, after the children take their pretest.  They will write them in their assignment books, along with the challenge work of the week.  The final test will be Friday. 

We will read our first reading stories next week.  We will review these all week, and then they will be tested over this story on Friday.  Your child will bring his or her reading book home to review and read with you.  I also sent home information packets about Book Reports home on Thursday.  Most of the students picked out their books too! 

Friday Folders will come home today with graded papers.  Please take a look at these, and send the folder back to school on Monday. 

Every day, I will also jot down some shorthand notes and initial your child’s assignment book.  It is as follows:  If your child’s assignment for the day is circled, it was not completed and he or she will have that for homework.  If it is circled with an INC. above it, it was handed in, but was incomplete or needs to be redone. Is should be then coming home and in the assignment folder.  In the box, the following means: 

P-playing around

T-talking

D-Disrespect

H-hallway problems

NF-not following directions

1-Thank you for doing such a great job today!

2-I am proud of you for turning in all your work!

3-Your behavior was excellent—make sure you turn in all your work tomorrow!

4-Let’s have a better day tomorrow!

5-Please see comment.

I will then initial it every day, and I just ask that you do the same—so I know that you have seen it!   I am looking forward to working together to insure a great year for your child!

            Also, I meant to mention this at your home visits, but the children can bring a healthy snack to eat at morning recess each day.  Fruit, raisins, crackers, nuts, etc. are acceptable snacks. Thank you!

            We will begin special classes next week, have our first library time, and really get into our text books!  What an exciting time!  Thank you for all of your support and prayers…I am SO excited for this school year. 

Blessings,

Kim Brunkhorst