Friday's schedule

Happy Halloween!
Friday will be a busy day for us...the children can come to school in their costumes (please no masks or heavy/cumbersome props)...the Halloween parade will begin at 9:00, we would love for family members to be spectators! In good weather, we will start at the school and walk to the nursing home...if the weather is bad, we will parade ourselves around the gym!
Our class Halloween party is scheduled to begin at 11:00...I'll send home reminder slips on Wednesday for any party commitments you may have made....parents are welcome to attend...it is at your discretion whether to bring a younger sibling.
Students will be dismissed at 11:45...lunch will not be served at school.

Oops!!

Apparently, I made a rookie mistake....I sent the orange "respect" shirts home but they are actually supposed to stay in the kids' lockers and put on for the "GOTCHA" parties while they are at school.
Our first GOTCHA party is this Friday, October 23.
So....please....take pity on me and send the shirts back to school...I am begging!
(The students will take them home at the end of the school year.)
Thank you!

Stressed....

Yes...if a 100% is scored on the spelling pre-test, they do not have to take the test at the end of the week...not a big deal, really, they will just sit at the back table and draw a picture...
However, when the children saw their test scores today, I had two boys in actual tears because they each missed one word...I did give the 'feel good' speech... that it is okay....this is just a practice...but they still took it pretty hard.
I would love if you could pass the thought along....

Peer Tutoring

When a student is done with his/her math work for the day...and it does not have any mistakes....they are deemed an 'expert' and can circulate the classroom to see if any of their classmates need any extra help.

Handwriting is a lot of work!

It takes a lot of effort to get those letters formed correctly....
and facing the right direction....
and to have the correct pencil grip....