Weekly News 9/6

Happy Friday! We've been spending time getting to know each other, learning what makes up our identities and beginning some of our routines in reading and writing workshop.  Another large focus has been community and what makes a strong and positive community.  We've had some great discussions, teamwork and self-reflection throughout the week.

Be sure to ask your child about:

• exploring our classroom libraries 
• why do people read? 
• how they know they are in a just right book
• the different genres of books
• painting self-portraits
• their goals during team challenges
• flexibility and persistence during team challenges
• beginning writing workshop
• brainstorming special people and places
• playing the name game
• our identity bag museum
• sharing their identity bag
• "practicing" for indoor recess and morning choice time 

Room parents:
We are looking for some room parents for both classes.  The job is pretty low key! Basically, you would need to be a liaison between the PTO and class parents and help us organize some of our classroom parties.  Let us know if you're interested!

Donations:
If you have any legos, board games, blocks or building materials at home that you are not using much anymore we would love to use them in our classrooms!

Upcoming:

• Picture day- September 12th 
• Open house (with your child!)- evening of October 3rd