Only on a Monday

We have begun our first full week of school.  It will be very busy and a lot of time will be spent learning some new routines.  We will also spend some time celebrating birthdays.  (Yep, two this week).  And making sure I can read our schedule correctly.  We actually ended up going to recess an hour early because I looked at the clock wrong.  I think the class really enjoyed knowing that sometimes teachers make mistakes too.  I was so focused on meeting with my small reading groups that I didn't read my own schedule correctly or the clock for that matter.  Needless to say ~ only on a Monday.  Tomorrow we will really work on the routines and making sure we are in the right place at the right time.

Speaking of new routines - Spelling/Word study should have come home today in the SEED Binder.  Please make sure to read the instructions and make sure your child has completed their homework correctly.  Did you help them complete the Reading Log?  If not, please make sure to do this every day.  Just try to remember - the more you read, the better you read.  I know it is corny, but it is the truth.  I like to relate it to learning to ride a bike.  The more you practice, the easier it is and you fall off less. 

Web page Update - I spent a lot of time over the weekend updating www.mrsrichard.org It isn't finished being updated yet, but I hope to keep plugging away at it each day.  For now all of the pages you can reach from the home page button bar should be updated.

Facebook at School - I am sure your child has probably mentioned that we have facebook in our classroom.  Yes we do have it, but it isn't actually on a computer.  It is much more old fashioned - dry erase markers on laminated sentence strips with our pictures.  Right now we have been using our facebook wall as a way to gather data (which we graph), but it will also be used as a place where students can tell each other about the connections they have made with the texts and a number of other areas which we will be covering this school year.  If you are in the neighborhood, please stop on by and check it out.  We have also been getting Mr. Monroe and Mrs. Brown to update their status also.