Monday Message

Sorry, I know it's Tuesday!

    First of all, thanks to everyone that joined us for Eckert's on Friday.  It wasn't the best weather but I think everyone still had a good time.  Our next field trip will be to the Magic House on October 9th.  I know we have three field trips that are pretty close together but the Magic House only offered us dates in early October.  If your child wore their yellow field trip shirt home please return it to school as soon as you can.  Also, please email me any photos you took on our trip.
   We have now completed our first math book which worked on numbers 1-10.  This week we started our next unit in math working on number bonds.  We will learn how to use number bonds to decompose numbers.  The students work with workmats and manipulatives to help them do this.  They are excited about this.
    We continue to work on letter sounds and sight words.  Please make sure that you are practicing sight words for a short time each evening.  Most students are doing very well with their sight word tests.  Also, be sure that when your child is writing in their homework that are stretching their words if they are not sight words.  They are expected to spell sight words correctly but all other words should be stretched.  This means they should be writing a letter for each sound that they hear in the word.
    This weeks events...
Thursday is the JAM World Record day.  JAM stands for Just A Minute.  For one minute our entire school (and thousands of others around the world) will be physically active.  We will be dancing to one of our brain breaks that we learn in P.E.  Students are invited to dress in exercise or comfy clothes.
    Thursday is also Grant's Farm Night.  This is one of my favorite nights of the year.  Grant's Farm is open to Sappington Families only and it is a blast.  There's a DJ, face painting, and other activities.  The weather looks perfect and parking is free!
    Friday there is no school for students.  Teachers will be attending professional development sessions all day.
Please have homework complete by Thursday since we do not have school Friday.  We will also go to library and have our sight word tests on Thursday.