Thursday, August 30, 2018

More pics

Paper Chain challenge!!!!!


Community Building Activities

Please send in paperwork if you haven't done so already.

Remember notes for change of plans.

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This week we have been focusing on community building activities and activities that allow us to experience how we will learn in the classroom.  Personalized learning and differentiated instruction require the students to be able to navigate their learning environment.  The classroom needs to run smoothly with everyone understanding the expectations.  It takes time at the beginning of the year to set this up, but we get that time back when the learning takes off!!  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a call, text me, or email me!

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

First Day of School!!!!!!

Homework:
If you did not send paperwork in with your child, please send it in as soon as possible!
No other homework.  Homework-general grammar and math, will start next week.  More information on that will have its own blog post.

SUPER IMPORTANT!!!!!!
Your child has a normal end of the day routine that they will do on most days.  That routine might be different for some days, but for the most part, it is the normal end of day dismissal routine.  If that routine changes, we MUST have a note.  For sports, we encourage parents to send in a forever note for that season.  Example:  Any time there is soccer, Joey can stay after school. If the practice doesn't start right after school, then he will go to the BNML.  Mrs. Fournier is organizing an after-school program, so if you need information on that, please email her at jfournier@maplerun.org
If we don't have a note, and we cannot contact you due to time issues, then your child will have to go with his or her normal routine that you shared with us on the form you filled out.  You can always email us and copy Brenda on the email.  We can't guarantee that we can check emails after 11:45 am because we are teaching Core subjects and out for recess duty.

Unified Arts Schedule
 Monday:                              Music 5T PE 5M
Tuesday: Art 5T PE 5M
Wednesday: PE 5T Art 5M
Thursday: PE 5T Library 5M
Friday: Library 5T Music 5M

Please send in pictures/drawings/maps, etc for your child's All About Me poster. We will start working on these this Friday, or next Tuesday, depending on what we get done tomorrow! We always over plan the first week!!!!

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Monday, August 13, 2018

It's August!

Hi everyone!  I got back yesterday from our annual visit to Long Island.  We had a wonderful time in the city shoe shopping,  seeing family, and eating at our favorite Japanese Steak House!!!! 

Now it's time to think about this school year, which isn't hard for me since I taught summer school and am working on a writing committee this week!  Ms. Hathaway and I will be at City School organizing our On Demand Writing Prompts for our Common Local Assessments.

I sent out more information on the August 27th 5th Grade Orientation.