Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter
(2018-2019)
Please read carefully (this newsletter and all of
the papers included in the folder this week)!
It was a great first
week! We are settling in and
learning our new routines and expectations. Just a few reminders to help our
classroom run smoothly:
***Please check folders each day. Take out any papers on the Left at Home side and
complete or sign any pages on the Bring Right Back Side as soon as possible.
*We realized some of the stickers were on the wrong sides, so we are working on
correcting that! The front of the folder is for things left at home and the
back of the folder is for things that need to be returned. Thanks! *
***Accelerated Reader books will be sent home this week. There is no written homework
but we expect children to read with someone each night. Sometimes there will be
books in their bag that they can read to you, most times you can read to them
and have your child pick out the letters and words they know. You can also use
books from home to add to your log located in the folder. At the end of the
year students with the most books read receive prizes. We are also enclosing a read aloud list to
give you some ideas of books that will be helpful in building vocabulary.
***Sight words will also be practiced each night in place of written homework.
Begin with the first list. I will test students and put a star under the list
when they’ve read it correctly you can then move on to the next list. Cut out
the flashcards as you work on them and keep them in the envelope included in
the communication folder and begin working on List 1.
***Help your child
learn their Identification
number. This number was sent
home in their welcome letter. If you need it again, please let me know. It will
be used to get lunch, log on to the computers and check out library books.
***Please send a snack each day. We have an early lunch so we will grab a quick snack
while we work in the afternoon.
***Don’t forget to
send a dress code appropriate extra set of clothes to keep in your child’s cubby. Please put it in a bag (a gallon
size Ziploc works great) and label it with their first and last name.
***LABEL EVERYTHING! Make sure backpacks, lunch bags, coats etc.
are labeled with first and last names. All money being sent to school must be
in an envelope labeled with first and last name, teacher name, what it’s for,
and the amount included.
***This week we began learning
how to use the manipulatives and staying in our centers for our Math Groups.
***We will begin our
new Reading story, The Little School Bus by
Pamela Paparone. We are using this story to talk about school and bus safety,
following directions, and characters in a story. This story will be continued
into next week with other Back to School literature. Ask your child about the
books we’ve read this week. The Kissing Hand was one of our
favorites. We even had a scavenger hunt throughout the building looking for
Chester the character from our book and important rooms in our building. We
didn’t find Chester but we did find a cookie for our hard work!
***There is no school
on Labor Day, and it will be Day 6 when we return on September 4th.
***Picture Day will be on September 14th.
***This newsletter
will be sent home as a hard copy and located on our class blog. The remaining newsletters for the year will
be on our class blog and sent out as an email unless you request a hard
copy.
***Thanks for a great
start to the school year; we are looking forward to working with you and can’t
wait to see all of the progress!
