The First Week of School Went GREAT!!!!!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, my new batch of babies.
What a sweet class... This year is gonna be Great.

I want to send out special Thanks to:
Alurrian's Mom for helping me with labeling supplies the first day of school. That was the smoothest my first day has EVER been. WOW... what a difference. Thank you so much.
Thanks to all of you who brought your supplies to open house...that also helped with organization.
Thanks to EVERYONE who completed and turned in their paperwork and fees this week. That's one less thing we have to worry about. I will remind those of you who I am still missing items from.
And Thanks to Rachel's mom for joining us for lunch one day this week. Your baby was so excited.

Our first DIBELS testing will be this coming Wednesday. Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep on Tuesday night, and a good Breakfast Wednesday morning. DIBELS scores will help me determine how to help your child read better through our reading groups.
(We will test again after Christmas and again at the end of the school year)

Monday we start our curriculum and homework. Be on the lookout for Reading books to come home that week as well as homework and reading passages.

For Reading.... Monday is Day #1 And Friday is Day #5
Reminder.... Day 1 (we introduce spelling words/pretest, introduce the reading story and vocab.)
Days 2 and 3 (we practice the reading skill of the week, and read the story with comprehension questions)
Day #4 we Take the story quiz (13 questions are completed on the computer)
The written part of the test has two questions about the story.
Then there is a FRESH READ story with 5 questions about it. (using the same story skill we learned that week)
***You will receive the Written part of the test each week to see
(it will have the breakdown of how many your child missed in each section.
Day #5 We review the week... and do story art.
**REMEMBER due to holidays ...sometimes the day #1 may not fall on a Monday and day #5 may not fall on a Friday.

Language Tests will be given on Day #5 as well as Spelling Tests.

Usually FRIDAY's are a VERY busy TEST DAY.
HOWEVER, it also is our SPECIAL CLASSES day.

Every Friday we will have Computer Lab 9:15 - 9:45am Wooooo Hooooo
Then We alternate weeks with Music and Library from 10:30 - 11:10
THEN We have free centers every Friday from 2:00 - 2:25 (for those who earn it)
WOW... busy busy.

We start fresh the next Monday with new words, a new story etc. SOOOO it is very important to ATTEND SCHOOL on Friday's if at all possible. It is a big day.

Have a great Weekend.
-Mrs. Mainor