A quick Monday update

Today, we had a short line heading into school. We were missing our 4 friends who moved to the new class, 2 students absent, and the bus students got held up for about 5 minutes! But once the bus students got there we had 18 present and everyone remembered tennis shoes for P.E.! Way to go students and parents!!!

We started the second week of Unit 1 in reading. We have Amazing words like proud, preparation, guide,create and cooperate! We talked about times when we have felt proud and ways we can cooperate in school. We worked on writing the capital and lower case Ff and Gg's. We will take a couple letters a day and hopefully get through Mm by Friday!

We will be working on our speaking and listening skills as we talk about the "All About Me" pages your filled out before Open House. We will take the students in order of their show-n-tell days. This will just be a telling time, without bringing anything from home.

We practiced "I am _______ " and filled in the blank first with our name and then a picture of how we are feeling. Most students wanted to put both a happy face for liking to be back at school after the weekend, but sad that some of our friends were not there. By lunch and afternoon recess they connected with Caitlin, Aayla, Kian and Duncan and everyone enjoyed seeing each other! Because of this big change all of the students after #9 will have a number change. I moved the mailbox numbers and the children adjusted well. You will be able to tell when you get Thursday folders what you child's new number is.

Finally, we got to one of Mrs. Clapper's favorite bear stories "Berlouis" and listened to two versions of "Flight of the Bumblebee" on YouTube. See if your child can tell you the connection between the story and the song. We introduced the work 'ENCORE' and they enjoyed requesting an encore of the song!

We're looking forward to a terrific Tuesday tomorrow!

~ Mrs. Carol Clapper