Holiday Homework

Since our main focus is writing, it would be a great support to help your child to continue this during the break!

Here are some fun ideas to keep the writing exciting for your child:

Salt Plate Spelling - Pour salt on to a plate and have your child spell words with their fingers (sight words or CVC words - cat, bat, hat, sit, hit, bit)

Shaving Cream Spelling - Put shaving cream on to a plate/table and use it to spell words with fingers

Water coloring - Do some painting to promote writing.

Here are some helpful links for writing as well as math (Click on them to open!):

ReadWriteThink

PBS MATH

I hope you have an amazing break! See you January 15th (Minimum Day)

Meet Blue Barry Bono Jr.

. . . Our Room 4 Beta Fish! The whole class took a vote to see what our fish's name would be! Bono, the monkey character from stories early in the year won by nine votes. BUT some students thought it sounded great to say Blue Barry Bono Jr. and it stuck!!

Thank you to Patrick's family for giving our class a pet!

Halloween Parade - Wed. October 31

Our annual Halloween Costume Parade will be this Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. It would be great if you would like to dress your child in a school appropriate costume and come watch them walk around the blacktop. This will be Kindergartens first all-school event so it will be a great experience for them.

*If your child will be dressing for the parade, please bring an extra change of clothes for after the parade.

Fall Carnival - Friday November 2nd

Emory School's Fall Carnival will be held on Friday, November 2nd. The Fall Carnival is a great experience for all children and is a great way to support your child's school.

The carnival takes a lot of support from not only Emory staff, but from parent volunteers to make it a success. Please take this opportunity to think about your interest in volunteering to help in different areas. One responsibility of our class will be to help operate two booth activities. I will send out a paper notice for parents who are interested in volunteering on Monday, October 22nd.

Thank you to those parents that have already shown support by donating candy for the event!

Lowe's Family Activity

Movie Night CANCELLED

The scheduled Movie Night for October 19 has been cancelled. If the office has new information about a new date, I will let you know!

Emory Blue Slips

At the beginning of the year, there was a paper that outlined the school-wide positive behavior support plan. One of the ways that the school promotes behavior is through Blue Slips. While I do not give out a lot of them during our class time, students do receive them during other times of the day when other staff or teachers "catch them being good." The slips are collected and counted for each student. They do get prizes for their slips. I wanted to remind you so you can help support your child to earn Blue Slips outside of the classroom - while in other classes or out on the playground at recess and lunch time. Here is a picture of the Blue Slip.