Oops. After dismissing students, I saw a note that was supposed to be sent home today. It was a reminder that either the money for the Preferred Coupon Books or the unsold books need to be returned to school on Monday. I still show that RH, MB, SB, MK, CS, IF, and ES have not returned money or books. If you child has the money or coupon books in their backpack, please email me and I will dig through it while they are at recess on Monday. My apologies.

We had a noisy N day. (I'm not just saying that because of the letter N--it was way too loud today!) We played musical chairs, we fed sound muncher (who ate a nose, by the way), and we learned some new signs (soup, popcorn, potato, orange juice, cake, waffle, ice cream, chicken, and meat). Instead of journals, today we used mini whiteboards to practice writing the uppercase and lowercase letters A-N. For science, students were first asked to predict which objects would sink and which would float and then we experimented. They were very good at predicting! Students are able to recognize an AB pattern in math (2 alternating colors), but I asked them to trace shapes to create an AB pattern and few were able to do this. It just shows me what I need to spend more time teaching.

There was a green sheet of paper that went home last week asking if your child needs a sack lunch on our early out day. Most of you will not need to return that form. If your child will be going to daycare on the early out day, and the daycare kids have already eaten, you might want to order a sack lunch that your child can take with them to daycare. If you will be picking up your child on that day, chances are you will simply feed your child lunch when you get home. I just thought I should clarify this.

Have a great weekend. Please feel free to email me anytime you have a question, or comment on the post and I will respond to you. I'm quite the computer geek and am on it frequently.