Thinking of you..

I hope everyone is having a nice relaxing break! I just wanted you to know I am thinking of you and excited about our fresh renewed start in January! Have fun with family, eat lots of yummy food, and read read read :) See you in a week.

Happy New Years from my family to yours!

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Late Start for Students
On Wednesday, February 18, District Two will hold a planned late-start day for students in order to offer teacher professional develop-ment in the morning. The same procedure will be followed as when there is a two-hour weather delay, except that schools will provide student supervision for parents who need to drop off their children at the usual time: Buses will run two hours later in the morning, 4K morning classes and pre-K special education morning classes will not meet, and school breakfast will not be served. The school day will end at the usual time. We appreciate your support as we utilize this prime time to focus on teacher techniques and train-ing that will boost the effectiveness of District Two’s EXCEL personalized digital learning initiative, with the goal of maximizing the return on investment for each student.






School Check-in


The new system is finally up and running after a bad scanner was replaced. Please run in your newsletters that all parents will need their ID to check-in to the school. This includes lunch visits. We will not require this for big events like awards day or parties.

Holiday pictures

Holiday pictures are Friday. Just a note- Santa will not be in the pictures. If you have any questions please feel free to email :)

Pilgrims and Indians

We have been really digging deep each day and learning so much about the pilgrims, Indians, and the first Thanksgiving.

Ask your child these questions at home. They should know the answer! :) 

1. Why did the pilgrims leave England?

2. What was the name of the ship they rode on?

3. What was the first winter like?

Below are a few pictures of what we've been working on. The kids have been working so hard on becoming more independent while sounding out words as they are writing. 

Duck Dynasty day/hunt for a cure

The kids looked so awesome in their camo gear! 

Fall field trip

We had such a fun time at Fishers!!!

Math fun!

Today we worked with partners on a fun math activity! :)

Walk at school day

Last week we had our walk at school event! The kids had so much fun walking, listening to the 

police officers, fire fighters, nurses, and DOT representative. :) Here are a few pictures I wanted to share. 

Fireman visit

Oh how the kids loved learning about fire safety and seeing the awesome fire trucks!!! What a fun way to start our Monday :)

Field Trip Permission slips and money!!!

Tomorrow is the last day for field trip permission forms and money! Please have that turned in to ensure that your child goes on the field trip next week. :)

Daily five FUN!!!!

We are slowly getting immersed totally in Daily 5. Yesterday I captured a few pictures of them doing word work and listen to reading! I really like the structure and fun of daily 5 and the kiddos do too!

Building our reading stamina!!!

Since the 3rd day of school we have been working on building our reading stamina. Our goal is to read independently for 15 min. The first day we started at 30sec (which I totally expected ) and boy have we grown since then :) I made mini goals for the kids....5min...10min...and 15min... We have already reached the 5 min. goal and the kids reward was a cup of icecream. This past week they reached 10mins so today we had our lollipops as a treat and 5min. extra recess. We are working towards that big 15 MINUTES :)  Happy Friday everyone!!

Friendship Fruit Salad!

What an awesome day we had on Friday!! It was certainly busy with 2 related arts, a fundraiser kick-off, and of course our FRIENDSHIP FRUIT SALAD. Thank you for sending in the fruit that was assigned to you. The kids absolutely loved it! 

Exciting news to share!

Parents,

    I wanted to share some news with you. I am expecting a sweet baby due in mid March. I already have a precious little one, Millie who is 8 months old so I will certainly have my hands full but I'm super excited!

 

Lots of fun this week!

This week we worked on our pete the cat art and writing project. The kids loved listening to the story on the promethean board "I love my white shoes." The sang along each day and then they made their own!

I also introduced our writers workshop journal this week. We will be writing in these journals everyday and at the end of the year the students will bring these home. It's so awesome to see their progression throughout the year. (the pictures wouldn't cooperate and turn the right way!)

 

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome 2nd week of school :)

Good morning! It is my hope that you and your little ones had a restful weekend. I know by Friday most of the class was dragging along. I understand this is a hard transition from summer and this week will be even more of a transition as we really get into our schedule and learning more :) I hope, last week, you heard all about the fun get to know you games we played as well as the fun activities we did. I have attached a picture of the straw name activity we completed last week.

1st day!

What an awesome first day in K5! We had so much fun getting to know each other, playing, learning the routines, and of course drinking our jitter juice. I know this is going to be a fantastic year. READY...SET...LETS GO!! :)