Next week, your child will receive their first homework sheets. We will only be doing math next week. There will be a half-sheet of purple paper attached to the math homework explaining what needs to be completed. There is a total of four sheets that need to be completed and turned in by Friday, September 3. I will not collect homework before Friday. The following week (week of September 7), you will see more math homework, reading, and new spelling homework with a complete letter detailing how spelling works in my room.
As always, continue to read nightly with your child and write down books in his/her reading log.
August 28, 2010
Math Home-School Connection
Our new math program, Envisions, has provided families with a "Home-School Connection" for every new theme. We began Theme 1: Understanding Addition this week. Friday, I sent home a folded paper that informs families what we are doing in class while we study the topic. The Envisions program has a total of 16 topics which vary in length. Please be sure to review the new math words with your child as well as complete to supplemental activities to ensure your child has a full grasp on what we've been doing in class. There is a game on the back side which can be played multiple times for a fun way to practice and review addition.
This sheet should remain at home. It is not necessary to turn into me.
This sheet should remain at home. It is not necessary to turn into me.
August 27, 2010
August Character Student
Our August character trait was responsibility. This month's character student is Eden. She has been a great helper in the classroom, cafeteria, and during resources. I can depend on Eden to follow directions and help her classmates out. I'm super excited to have Eden as part of our class this year! Congratulations to Eden!
Traffic Pattern Monday 30 and Tuesday 31
Parents/Guardians,
With good news sometimes comes bad (or should I say inconvenient) news: The district has agreed to install an additional 50 parking spaces (that’s the good news). The inconvenient news is that it takes two days to do so. That means that the traffic flow in the morning and the afternoon will be interrupted by construction. Specifically, when entering the drive-through (on the east side of the campus) both lanes will immediately become one lane for a short distance (we are adding three or four new spaces in that location). Then when you exit the campus, there will only be one lane to exit (we are adding about 10 new spaces on the right side).
Hopefully when that is completed, they will immediately begin paving the dirt area near the back field and then they are going to pave half of the area behind the two story building. Our goal is to always help the traffic and make the traffic flow better.
So, please be patient with the construction as well as the interrupted flow of traffic. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.
Christopher E. Begley
Principal - Loretto Elementary
With good news sometimes comes bad (or should I say inconvenient) news: The district has agreed to install an additional 50 parking spaces (that’s the good news). The inconvenient news is that it takes two days to do so. That means that the traffic flow in the morning and the afternoon will be interrupted by construction. Specifically, when entering the drive-through (on the east side of the campus) both lanes will immediately become one lane for a short distance (we are adding three or four new spaces in that location). Then when you exit the campus, there will only be one lane to exit (we are adding about 10 new spaces on the right side).
Hopefully when that is completed, they will immediately begin paving the dirt area near the back field and then they are going to pave half of the area behind the two story building. Our goal is to always help the traffic and make the traffic flow better.
So, please be patient with the construction as well as the interrupted flow of traffic. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.
Christopher E. Begley
Principal - Loretto Elementary
Message from the Cafeteria
Beginning Monday, all students must have money with them unless they are on free lunch or have money in their accounts. Each student is allowed a $1.50 credit to his/her account. After that credit has been used, the child must bring money or he/she will be given a cheese sandwich and juice. For all students whose parents have completed a free/reduced application, the child must pay $1.50 daily until the application is processed. Children who were free or reduced last year will have the same status for the first 30 days or until a new application is processed. After the 30 days if a new application is not processed, the child goes back to a paid status. If parents want to continue receiving assistance, they must complete a new application for each new school year.
August 22, 2010
Lunch
There's been a minor change in our lunch time. Originally you were told 11:00, but it has been changed to 11:05. Our Early Release lunch time will remain the same, 10:25.
August 21, 2010
Summer Reading Log
I hope you were writing down all of the great books you read this summer. Make sure to send your child's summer reading log to me as soon as possible. All of the books the children read will go towards our end of the year school-wide reading goal. In addition to that, every child who read at least 20 books gets to go to a back to school reading party to reward them for their hard work this summer. If you could send in the reading logs sometime the first week of school, that would ensure your child doesn't miss out on the party!
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