Monday News for Sept. 14th

Your child has been assigned a reading partner and math partner.  These partnerships will change from time to time based on specific learning goals at the time.  Please enjoy the photos!

We are taking part in the Journey North Symbolic Migration project.  Your children will be acting as ambassadors by participating in this project.  We have worked to protect the Monarch Butterfly by raising several butterflies and then releasing them. The children are decorating paper butterflies during this time  that will be sent through the Journey North program to Mexico where they will be received by Mexican children living near the Monarch sanctuary.  The children in Mexico who live near the sanctuaries will keep the butterflies and will then send them north when the real Monarchs leave their wintering grounds for the north.  It is always exciting when our packet arrives in the springtime with butterflies from all over the US and Canada.  Please check out the link to Journey North and the Symbolic Migration website for further information and some fun kid activities!  Once we send our packet out we will be posting to the map.  We'll let you know when we post!

This week we are beginning Writers Workshop.  The children were asked to write about something important to them.  We used this as a baseline to see where individual students are as developing writers.  This gives us an idea of what we need to address in writing with each child.  Each student will keep this piece of writing and will be able to measure their own progress as writers as the year moves forward.  

Reminders:
Please remember to send your child with sneakers on Tuesdays and Thursdays for PE!

Library Day - Please make sure your child has their library books on Wednesdays so they can take out new books.

Homework Folders- Please remember to send the Homework Folder to school each day.  Besides using these for homework we also use these folders to send home any parent information we receive from the office.

Have a wonderful week ahead and feel free to contact us with any of your questions.