I hope that you all had a nice three-day weekend. We are back at work until the Thanksgiving Holiday. It will be here before we know it. I hope that you all had a chance to look over your child's first quarter grades. If you have any questions or concerns about those grades please don't hesitate to contact me. If changes need to be made I will fix those and send home a new printout. Watch for those (new printouts) by this Friday, October 28.
The Scholastic book orders that I sent home last week are due tomorrow. You can order online (easiest way) using the code on the cover letter I sent home with the fliers or you can send the orders back with a check. You only need one check made out to Scholastic. There are always $1.00 books and our class accumulates points for free books for our classroom for every order placed.
We had a great Walk-a-Thon last Friday. I think some of my kiddos got pretty wet from the "fire house" sprinkler, but they seemed to love that. Thanks to those that have sent back pledges for our school. You can still send pledges per lap or a flat donation in the envelope provided. The PTA has the information about how many laps your child did during the walk.
Halloween is just around the corner. Remember that East Elementary is a "dress up" school! Your child can come in their costume all day long, but no masks or blood and gore. Face make-up and hats or wigs are ok. The costume parade will start at 2:30. Parents can watch and take pictures from the cafeteria. This week we will finish our apple head witches that have been "wrinkling" up in the window.
We have started our next chapter in math. Today we learned about how "addition helps us subtract". We took the math test last week from Chapter 3 and I will send those results home as soon as I get them onto Power School. In reading, we have moved from the Human Body to Different Lands--Similar Stories. We have heard and worked with two different versions of Cinderella (the original from France and The Girl With the Red Slippers from Egypt). Tomorrow we will hear another version of Cinderella called Billy Beg.
Today another really helpful "take-home" sheet came home in your child's folder. If you could like to count that as part of your child's nightly reading and only read the take-home book once you are welcome to do that. Please be faithful in reading those take-home books every night. I have noticed a decline in those reading every night.
Today in PE we still struggled with behavior. On Friday, our skills coach, Mrs. Willis, is going to help my class "practice appropriate behavior". Please talk to your child about behaving appropriately in PE or that privilege will get taken away from some chronic misbehavers.
Happy Reading!
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