Week of November 25, 2013

Aloha Families!  This week is a short week.  We end school on Wednesday at 12:45 and come back to school on Monday December 2.

Wednesday we will be making pumpkin pie!! Yummy!  Please send all of your ingredients in by Wednesday before lunch.

This year due to an error in scheduling  Surf Night will be held on Friday November 29th.  I plan to be in my usual spot selling baked goodies.  I hope to see all of you there!

Here is a quick peek at some of our Turkey Disguises that came in this week!

Stop by and take a look at our classroom door this week.

I would like to take this time to thank all of you for your support during the year.  We couldn't do it without you!!

Have a restful and Happy Thanksgiving!

Week of November 18

This week is a full week of school.  On Wednesday I will be sending home our Wednesday envelopes with lots of  notes.

Next week we will have 3 days of school.  On Wednesday is our Turkey Trot.  Please read the notice in the Wednesday envelope.

On Wednesday of next week we will also be making pumpkin pie!  Please sign up to send in a donation for that day.  The sign up sheet will also be in the envelope.

Week of November 12th

I hope everyone had an enjoyable three day weekend. Since it is a short week and we have other items we need to finish, we will not have any spelling words this week.

Instead we will have a skill sheet along with a math sheet all week.

On Wednesday I will be sending home a fun family activity.  It is called Turkey In Disguise.  I am asking that you help your child to disguise their turkey so it won't be eaten on Thanksgiving.  Please help them to complete the attached worksheet at well.

This is a fun way to help your child be creative and think outside the box a bit.  Please send in completed turkeys by Monday November 18th.

If you have any questions please contact me.

November Is Here

Aloha Families!  I have not done a very good job of keeping up with our website.  I am making a concious effort to update this once a week!

Can you believe it is already November!  Time is flying by and we are learning so much everyday.  This month we will continue with our study of Nocturnal animals.  This week is all about the desert.

Last month I put up a Donor's Choose project and it was fully funded!  I am so happy our class will have 4 iPads now for an iPad center.  We have been using them for reading and KidBiz, and now I hope to start using them for other projects.  Thank you so much to those of you who donated.  I truly appreciate your help!

Our class had lots of fun on Halloween and made some fun treats to eat.  Thank you again for all the donations.

 Here are some pictures of lots of fun things we have been doing in class.

Costume Graph

Candy Graphing

Halloween Riddles

Mosaic Pumpkins

 Drawing Sugar Skulls

Nocturnal Animal Pictures and Facts

I am looking forward to a fun filled November!!

Frogs and a Field Trip

Aloha families!   This week we are learning all about frogs.  We will be studying their life cycles and lots of interesting facts.  If you child has any books or items about frogs that they would like to share please send them in.

Don't forget this Friday is our Field Trip.  Permission slips and money are due on Wednesday.  I have sent home notices/permission slips in your child's homework folder.  Please let me know if your child cannot attend.

Moving Along

We are already 6 weeks into our school year and the students seem to have adjusted very well.

Keep checking homework and behavior charts daily.

This month we have a Field Trip to the Hawaii Theatre.  It will be on September 20th. Flyers went home last week.

We will be seeing  A Korean Cinderella.

The cost is $12.

If you have any questions just contact me.

Spelling Homework

Our back to school week went very well!  We are working on our rules and  routines and getting used to being back full time.
This week we will begin our regular spelling homework.
Each week I give the students a Pre-Test to see how well they know a skill.  If they pass the Pre-Test I will give them a more challenging list of words.  Each night they will have a spelling assignment.

Monday-Write words 3 times each
Tueaday-Write the words in ABC order
Wednesday-Write 10 sentences using a word in each sentence.
Thursday-Study words for spelling Test.

Our spelling rule this week is short a.

Please check your child's homework journal to see what list they have to study this week.

If you have any questions please contact me.