Savanna 1-24-14

Dear Parents,

            With the shortened week, I have just a couple of housekeeping items to share with you.

1.     With the snow day Wednesday we will now be adding May 7, 14, and 21 as full days of school, rather than Early Release Wednesdays.  Please mark your calendars accordingly. 

2.    With the heavy boots needing to be worn to school, your child may bring in a pair of slippers or sneakers to leave at school to change into if they would like.

3.    Please help your child practice their multiplication facts for 10 minutes each evening.  We are working on fact fluency and this focused practice will help.

           

Below are a couple of important dates to put on your calendars:

Friday, January 24- Disco Dance-7pm

Thursday, February 6- Report Cards Issued

Friday, February 14- Imagination Stage Field Trip

Monday, February 17- President’s Day Holiday- No School

Wednesday, March 5- Wax Museum

Thursday/Friday March 6-7- Parent Teacher Conferences

            As always, I appreciate your help and support.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. 

 

Savanna Update

Dear Parents,

         I would like to being this week's note with a big thank you to everyone for all the well wishes I received concerning my surgery.  I truly appreciated all the kind words.  All went well and other than not being able to bend down and lift heavy objects, I am well on the road to recovery.  

         We spent this week getting back into the full swing of school.  We took some time to review school and class rules, as well as to talk about expectations for the coming months.  Now that we are finishing up the second quarter we talked about the need for all the children to step up and take a bit more responsibility for their work and actions both in and out of the classroom. 

         We are continuing our unit on Multiplication. In this unit, the children will learn their multiplication facts from 1-12. To help with this, each child will need a set of multiplication flash cards at home to help with the daily review of these facts. I am assigning an additional 10 minutes of practice of facts each night as part of the daily homework.  This practice can be with the flash cards, a computer game, or with an app on a hand held device.  A great resource for computer games is the Tuckahoe web site.  Under the “Links” tab there is a list of Math sites.  One site the children enjoy is both AAA Math, and Gamequarium.  If you and your child find a site you particularly like, please share it with me and I will pass it along to the others in the class. 

         In Science we are learning about ecosystems, habitats and adaptations.  We will be testing this unit out in the next week or so.  We have continued our work on grammar, sentence structure and paragraph writing in Language Arts.  In Social Studies we kicked off our unit on Ancient Rome with a computer scavenger hunt.  All in all it has been a busy week of learning.

Below are a couple of important dates to put on your calendars:

Friday, January 17- End of 2^nd Quarter

Monday, January 20- Dr. King Holiday- Schools Closed

Tuesday, January 21- Teacher Workday- No school for students

Wednesday, January 22- Full day of School-No Early Release

Friday, January 24- Disco Dance-7pm

        

         As always, I appreciate your help and support.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.