Thursday, September 30, 2010

Here comes October!

My favorite month is quickly approaching!
We will have a lot of activities going on in the class room in the next few weeks.  Please be checking your student's homework folder every night for updates.
Most importantly, please mark October 7th as a day to make sure your child attends school. This is our 40th day and we will be celebrating it by having a apple feast! As we study apples we are taking note of all the foods that we can make with apples. I will be sending home a sign up sheet for apple treats to bring in to our apple feast on the 7th! Make sure your child can attend.
Please continue to support your child in their homework studies as well as reading. We are committed to reading 280 books as a class in order to help donate 1 million books to needy kids thru Scholastic books.
We are excited to help others in this way.
Book orders are due on Friday.

As always have a fantastic week!
Mrs. Nye

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Welcome, Fall!!

Supposedly fall is here. That is easily argued when stepping outside! However, we are glad the cooler weather is slowly approaching our playground!
I hope you have had a wonderful weekend.
This week we will be working on fractions, estimating and word problems in our classroom. 
In reading we will continue learning to code our words. We will be writing about Johnny Appleseed
and working on learning some tougher spelling words.
As always, I appreciate all of your support and look forward to helping you in any way I can
with your student.  Parent-teacher conference openings are still available this week. Please contact me if you would like a spot. You can sign up on the bulletin board outside of my room.
Have a super week!
Mrs. Nye

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Apple Unit

Hi Everyone!

This week I am glad to be back! I missed all of my students and our daily activities.
We will be focusing on nouns, verbs and sentence structure this week. In math we
will be using a pictograph and charts to determine information asked for. We will
also be continuing up our friendship reading series as well as beginning a study of
apples.
Please help your child to finish homework nightly and study words for test on
Friday.  Don't forget to read to them for 15 minutes or have them read.
Conferences will be next week. If you have not signed up please email me for
a time that will work for you.
Thanks so much ! Have a terrrific week!
Mrs.Nye

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

September, already?!

   Welcome to my first posting on my new blog! I can hardly believe that it is already September.  It seems like yesterday I was meeting my new students.  Since then we have had a great time getting to know each other and learn about our school and classroom procedures.  I am happy to announce that the students have adapted quite well to morning and afternoon routines.
    This week we have some exciting events happening. I hope you will find time to stop by and participate in some of them.
        Sept.1      Open House 6-8p.m.
        Sept 1-3  Scholastic Book Fair
        Sept  6     Labor Day/No School
Please check back to this blog regularly.  Spelling words for this week's test are located on this blog under August 30th. Next week I will post new words, homework and any other important announcements.
   Thanks to the families that returned their Highlights subscription request forms. We were able to earn some free gifts for our class because of your participation! A special thanks to all of the parents who donated books for our class from our Book Fair class wish list! We love them!