next week schedule and its reading week! YAY!

Parents,

Thanks for supporting my blog! Well most of you! I appreciate you! :):)
Next week is reading week, I hope you have gotten out the handout a few days, please make sure to record the reading minutes with your child! :)
TO kick off the reading assembly, they are doing a fun theme reading week' next week! A little note from out PTA committee!

·        Monday, February 24^th: “Wild Wear”—Wear mismatched shirt and pants and remember to be “Wild About Reading”. No costumes or accessories please. We will kick off reading week with “The Magic of Reading” with magician Mike Hamilton at 9:15 a.m assembly.

 

·        Tuesday, February 25^th: “Family Fun With Books” — 8:00-8:45 a.m.  (last name beginning with A-M) & “Wild Fan Day”. Wear your favorite team’s jersey, t-shirt, colors or even your own sports jersey/t-shirt. Bring some of your favorite books to read with a family member before school. Breakfast will not be provided, but students are welcome to bring their own snacks to munch on.

 

·        Wednesday, February 26^th: “Family Fun With Books”—8:00-8:45 a.m. (last name beginning with N-Z) &“Wild Hair Day”—Show your wild side by creating a crazy hairdo.  NO DYED HAIR!!!!

 

·        Thursday, February 27^th: “Wild Animal Face Day”—Use face paint to create your favorite wild animal. Have wild fun during recess and explore a fire truck with your buddies.

 

·        Friday, February 28^th: “Wild Socks/Shoes”—Dig out those “wild” socks or shoes and wear them proudly for our “Wild About Reading” finale.  Classes that have read the most minutes will celebrate with a class party. 

 

Business:

 

1. Please please please please please talk to your child about NOT being physical, we have quite a few of incidents and near dangerous situation where it could have been FATAL! I am not exaggerating! We had some children been physical this week, which includes, pushing, choking, punching, etc. This is a very serious matter and was dealt with seriously! Please please also help me tell your child if another child is being mean, physical towards them that they do not 'return the favor' and it does NOT give them the right to be mean or physical towards them back.  

 

*also NO throwing of snowballs and NO running outside or inside, we have daily injuries from children NOT listening and NOT following this rule!!!!!!!

I know these sound harsh but SAFETY IS OUR TOP PRIORITY!!!!

 

 

2. Duck necklaces! I am so proud that the children have been trying their best to collect as much donations for heart research:) I know they are very excited to collect the different duckies with different amounts of donations, they are most welcome to wear their duck necklace BUT if they play with it or distract others during class time, warnings will be given ( up to 3 times!) then it will get TAKEN AWAY! Please talk to them about that!

 

3.  ATTENDANCE---Please make sure that your child comes on time to school! It is very important that they are ON TIME.

 

4. Library books---It must be brought EVERY MONDAY to return to the library!

*if Monday is a holiday, bring it the following day! I will return it for them!

*please make sure that you treat library books with TLC (Tender loving care!), water damage or other damage will result in you buying the same exact book for the library!

 

5. SHOES for PE on Tuesday, we still have quite a handful of students that do not bring or wear the right shoes for PE and that result injuries when they try to run (before we can actually screen and see who wore the right shoes), that has resulted in injuries! Please Please Please, wear the appropriate shoes! SAFETY ISSUE!!!

 

6. Center Time--The toys always need some Tender Loving Care! Most of the children play with them nicely but there is quite a handful of children that throw, step, etc on these toys as a result, there are many damaged toys. Please talk to them about it. I might have to start asking you to buy new toys if your child damages it.

 

7. Please, read everything! It is so important! (a lot of answers can be found here and in different entries of this blog!)

 

Agenda----

 

1. Chinese---WE will finish learning the vegetables vocabulary! Check blog for audio clips!

 

2. Journals---We have started our Chinese journal, where we are writing the date, day and the weather, so far it has been really good! Most of the children have great handwriting skills! This is a good practice for the children to start recognizing some Chinese words.

 

3. Math--We have started switching up the addition and subtraction questions into the same worksheet, that has resulted in lots and lots of confusion, please please please, help me emphasize that they look at the sign first, whether it is + or - first.

*also, some children make careless mistakes, their answer is correct but they draw the wrong amount of circles, it is considered wrong (part of their common core curriculum is that they need to know what numeral value is, for example 3 means 3 circles!)

 

4. Health--we will discuss the different things that makes people healthy! (food, exercise, etc)

 

5. TEST next week on vegetables unit! please please please make sure to go over or play the audio clips (from my blog) with them, this really helps them! repetition is needed for these kiddos!

 

lets see who reads the whole blog, bring a white paper with a green star (do not color the star) drawn on it, also please write their names on it, bring it on Monday:) I will ask students to take it out of their backpack! thanks for doing this!

 

Have a great weekend!