Hello and welcome to my web page! I find this to be a useful tool for parents in trying to keep you up to date with school activities and important dates. I am looking forward to a great year with your child and cannot wait to get started! Sometime this week I will be sending home the last book order for the 2009 school year. I don't send one in December because I feel families have enough other expenses to worry about. We will do a book exchange in our classroom. A boy will bring in a book for a boy and a girl will bring in a book for a girl. Students will not know until the day of our holiday party who will be receiving the book they bring in. This book order will be due on November 13th. You will not receive another book order from me until the end of January. Our Taste Fease for first and second grade will be on November 25th at 1:30 in the High School Cafeteria. Soon, we will ask for volunteers to help set up and get plates ready for the feast. You are welcome to let me know ahead of time if you are interested in helping. We are doing our best to do extra things to try and keep the kids healthy in our classroom. Clorox/disinfectant wipes are used frequently to wipe off desks and tables. We still have some of these left to use. If you would like to send in extra donations that would be wonderful. We use the hand sanitizer as well. The school provides that. Also, if your child reads/sings any of the color word books to you and you sign them saying they did so. Your child will earn a prize from me when he/she returns the signed item. This will also occur when the paper yellow and salmon colored reading books start coming home that go along with our series.