November 16, 2009
Dear Parents,
Today we are sending home notices requesting items for our Stone Soup, which
we will be making in class on Monday, November 23. (Please note the date
change from Friday, Nov. 20.) We will plan on having our soup at 1:00 pm. We
will also work in a Thanksgiving craft and a game or two before reading
groups, which start at 2:00.
Last Friday, some of the children had an opportunity to borrow a tape recorder
so that they could record themselves reading out loud at home. It's a helpful
exercise that is intended to aid them in improving their fluency and the
expression they use while reading out loud. Every child will have an
opportunity to take a recorder home over the next couple of weeks. (If you
already have one at home that you can use, please let us know so that we can
send recorders home with children who do not.) Recorders and tapes should be
returned to class the day after they go home.
Just a reminder that our last day of school before Thanksgiving recess is
Tuesday, Nov. 24. School will resume on Monday, November 30.
There are many items of clothing on the "lost and found" table in the
cafeteria. Every effort is made to match items that are labeled with their
owner. Most of the items, unfortunately, are not labeled. Please stop by to
see if anything in the lost and found pile might belong to your child. All
items that are not claimed prior to Christmas break will be donated.
Once again, if you are interested in leading reading groups on Monday
afternoons from 2 to 2:30, please contact MaryBeth Winstead to see on which
Mondays helpers are still needed.
Please continue to work with your children everyday to learn and develop
fluency with their math facts. As we move on to subtraction and addition of
2- and 3- digit numbers, those students who have mastered their addition facts
will have a much easier time with the new material. Mrs. Trainor has posted a
"Race for the Gold" chart to help motivate our class to increase their Mad
Minute scores.
Thanks for everything you do for our class! Have a great week.
Mrs. Frinzl
Mrs. Trainor