Parents and Family Caregivers

We have been in school over a month now – can you believe it? Time is flying by and October arrives this weekend. Wow! 

If you haven’t done so already, please take a few minutes to read the school-wide discipline plan with your Room Eleven student. The agreement is printed in the front of your student’s planner and we ask you and your student sign the plan and return it to me as soon as possible. I have received several signed agreements and to those families, I say Thank You. 

It is important for families and students to have a complete understanding of our daily school expectations. This year we have implemented a Positive Behavior System. Everyday an expection is reviewed by Mrs. Rice during morning announcements and in our classroom via the lcd projector. The students are working toward these expections. Each week is a different theme. Here is a sample of what areas we have covered: listening skills, how and when to say thank you, being prepared for class, having your materials ready, etc. Ask your student what they know.

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We’ll be staying sharp for a while since Saphire’s mom popped in after school today! Mrs. S scooped up all our colored pencils, whisked them away to the staff workroom (where the heavy-duty electric pencil sharpener lives) and sharpened a boatload of pencils. Thank you very much! She promises to be back on Monday morning to prepare materials for our upcoming fun and colorful chain link synonym & antonym activity.

Don’t forget our Roadrunner Rally tomorrow morning and our first 2011-2012 Student of the Month assembly in the afternoon when we honor our classroom leaders along with last Spring’s STAR test super stars.

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Three cheers for Damian’s mom!  Hip, Hip, Hooray! First, Mrs. M checked the planners for neatness and parent signatures. Next, she reviewed the math homework from yesterday. Most everyone is going to take a second try at the same rounding homework again tonight. We will keep reviewing the concept.

•(♥).•*´¨`*•♥•(★) Our Friday Parent Volunteer (★)•♥•*´¨`*•.(♥)•

A shout out goes to Saphire’s mom who came in this morning, collated handouts, stapled, copied, and helped organize classroom learning materials. Thanks very much!

Important Music Fundraiser Coming in Two Weeks

What could be better together? 

Dinner @ Rubio’s

&

Dessert @ Yogurt Island!

Hwy 111 & Washington

Mr. O is in control.

More music theory today.

Last week, musical sounds filled the air!

Sight reading musical notation for the first time.

Making Music Magic

We are learning music theory or, the language of the discipline. This includes understanding the two types of staffs the notes sit on, names of the notes, and how to count out each note/beat.

Woo Hoo! (as Mrs. Rice would say) We were certainly feeling the love all day in Room Eleven.

What a day for our kids. It truly was a wonderful Wednesday.

Jazlynn’s mom volunteered from beginning to end. We kept her very busy working in the morning with small groups reading “Sacagawea’s Journey” and another small group practicing place value during Math time. Thank you Ms. Gomez for managing so well and giving so much of your time.

Just as we began our day the phone rang and it was Jesse’s mom – she was calling from Staples to ask about our Tri-Write pencil supply request! She then went to every local store and bought what was available. Within the hour we had more Tri-Writes. Thank you for your generosity!

But that’s not all…

Even before school started, both Saphire’s mom and Christopher’s mom asked to help too! Saphire’s mom took a bunch of folders home, glued on the “Work In Progress” cover sheet, brought them back to our library, laminated them and by 2:30PM all had been trimmed neatly, ready for our use tomorrow. Again, thank you for donating your time to help us succeed.

meet the math magician

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html