Great 1st Day!

Hello everyone!

September is a time of new beginnings. Friendships are renewed and new acquaintances are made. Our class of seven joined with the other fourth graders (a total of 38 of us!) for a wonderful afternoon of team building.

This blog will generally be updated on Fridays as an electronic newsletter, as a way to reduce paper and do our part to help save the Earth. For today, I wanted to update it to let you know a few things.

1) Every Friday your child will bring home the blue plastic envelope with your child's corrected work for the week. This envelope will also be used for any interim communication from the office, so please keep a look-out for it. Just be sure to return it the next day : )

2) Thank you for sending in the items that were on the class supply list. We are in the process of setting them up as OG binders, portfolios, or in some cases homework folders.

3) Your fourth grader will have homework Monday through Thursday, even if it is to read for 20 minutes. Homework assignments will be written in your son or daughter's homework planner. Assignments should not take more than 45 minutes to complete. If they do, please let me know. For tonight, the only homework was to check out this blog and have your child share his or her schedule with you.

4) There will be times when we may need parent volunteers to either help in the classroom or attend field trips. We will try and schedule these opportunities on different days and at different times so hopefully, it can fit into your schedule.

Reminders:
This Friday is the other half of our team building, which will involve going outside in the woods for the low elements ropes course. Please wear or bring long pants to school that day, in addition to bug spray.

Please bring a water bottle to be kept at school. Hydration is important, and the students will be allowed to keep it at their desks.

Looking forward to more days like today! ~ Mrs. Lawless