Thursday, September 19th

Please click this link to read next week’s newsletter: September 23-27. Thank you for reading the newsletter each week!

Please email me a picture of you at work and include a Kindergarten-friendly sentence that describes what you do. The full description of this project was in last Thursday's post. Please go back and read the information. I'd like a picture and sentence for both parents. Thank you for doing this by tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you to everyone who has turned in the field trip forms and payment. Both forms and payment are due no later than September 26th. 

Our September reading logs are due on September 27th. If you're keeping the reading log in the Daily Folder, I checked them on Tuesday and gave your child a sticker for progress so far this month. Thank you for reading to your child each evening. The benefits of reading to your child far exceed the prize they will receive next Friday for completing the log. 

Next week is the last week of the first quarter. I am continuing to collect data and complete one on one assessments with the students for their first nine weeks report card throughout next week. If you know in advance that your child will be out of school for any day next week, please let me know so that I may adjust my assessment schedule to ensure your child’s first nine weeks assessments are completed. 

We are so excited to announce this year's Be a Champion and Read contest! Our Columbia students are challenged to read six appropriate books to qualify for the AEA Grand Prize: Iron Bowl tickets - one winner for each team - for the student and two guests. Each prize includes sideline passes and pre-game activities. Logs for keeping up with reading progress will be sent home with your child tomorrow. We are thrilled to make this an exciting month for our readers! These logs must be turned into the library by October 21st.

One way that you can help your child is by helping them learn to independently open items they may have at lunch (milks, chip bags, cheese sticks, etc.).  We have a very short time in the lunchroom, our schedule for lunch is from 10:20-10:50. While this may seem to be enough time by the time we go through the lunch line, get settled at the table, then open containers, about 10 minutes has passed. Then we lose another 5 minutes for cleaning up. If your child still struggles with opening the containers then consider changing what you send the lunch item in or open the container enough that your child can finish the process successfully. Please practice opening lunch and snack items with your child throughout the week. The more opportunities they have to do this, the easier it will become! I appreciate your help with this!