Text Box: The beginning of school has came and went already and we have gotten out to a great start. Students are still learning boundaries and school rules but we are progressing nicely. Academically we will review our alphabet from Aa—Zz and the words I, and can in our preview unit Start Smart. The first reading unit will focus on Families which will begin the last week of August. We will concentrate on one letter a week starting with Mm and then Aa in unit 1 of reading. Please have your child read the sentences and booklets that are sent Text Box: home in their folders in the homework section. Please make sure that any written work or tracing is completed by your child and not an adult or older sibling in the home. Your child will not learn how to write it if they do not try themselves. It will improve and become easier in time. In math will discuss shapes, colors, sorting (by color, size, shape, and object). Copying and constructing a two-color pattern. We will also work on counting skills and recognizing, writing, and matching sets of objects to the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Text Box: We are learning our buses and will begin leaving from the room in the afternoon and will begin to walk to the room in the morning by ourselves within the next two weeks. Be patient while we are picking up a few new things in the room like painting, computers, and listening center. These will be added one each week starting next week. Look for a newsletter each month to help keep you informed on what we plan to do in class. Text Box: We will have a celebration day on the second Friday of each month to honor those who have a birthday during that month. We are allowed to have only one party each month. The only items we can have at our celebrations include: Text Box: popcorn, baked tortilla chips and salsa, yogurt, fruit and vegetables. For drinks we will serve juices only. Our first celebration will be August 14th. Back to Faculty Page Text Box: Celebration Day Text Box: The first couple of weeks…... Text Box: August, 2009 Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 1

             Please hang the color day chart on your refrigerator at home to see what color to wear to school each day.  This begins on Monday.  If you cannot find yours please let us know and we will send home another one.

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Mrs. Edwina, Mrs. Emily and Mrs. Jacklyn