Cheers to a second week!

Well we had a great first week. This week we are continuing to work on our behavior and reviewing our class rules. The students have come up with some great rules ( respect each other and the classroom, clean up after yourself, keep the classroom clean, don't speak when others are speaking, respect everyone...)
We have started our math unit which is patterns. Students are learning about what/ how to make a pattern, repetition and how to have several different attributes to one pattern. We are also counting up to 10 and learning the written words for each number. We have started our number printing book as well. I encourage you to count with your child at home as high as they can count and practice writing the numbers out.

We are also going over the different sounds letters make in the alphabet as well as the name of those letters. Please keep in mind that ( i ) in french sounds like  E in English and the (e) in french is euh. I will send home a sheet in their homework duo tang with all this information along with frequent words, numbers 1-100, and some suggestions on what you can do at home with your child.  As we do each sound we do a printing sheet to practice our upper and lower case letters. If you have the chance to work on their printing skills at home they would greatly benefit from it. You can do the alphabet in upper and lower case letters.

I will be sending home scholastics order forms this week. If this is new to you it is a booklet that you can order books from. I send home all selections just in case you have a younger or older child at home that might want to order from it as well. There is both English and french selections. Please do not feel obligated to order from it. They do have monthly promotions that sometimes benefits our class. Last year we got 2 free books for each child and coupons to buy books for our class. I will send scholastics out at the beginning of every month and have them due back in by the middle. It would be great if you could send a check in rather than money ( I will except money though if you don't have cheques)

We are hoping to plan a fall field trip for October sometime. If you are interested in volunteering please let me know. Once I know more I will pass the information along. Iam also open to suggestions.

I think that's all for now. I hope to see you all next week at the open house. Until then have a great rest of the week and a fabulous week end.
Here's hoping for sunshine!!
:)
Laurie Anne