This week is our last week of the study Beginning of the Year.  Our focus questions for the week are “How do we make and keep friends?” and “How can we be part of the group?”We will be focusing on “group activities,” working together and cooperation.   One of our art projects this week is called circle of friends in which a group of friends will make a circle with hand prints.  This is a great cooperative activity as the children need to decide on colors, and how many hands they need and how a circle units them. Our letters of the week are G and H and our math will focus on counting 0-5.

One of our books this week is the Gingerbread man.  We will be using Gingerbread Playdough (it always smells so good) and making Goo together as a class.

A few housekeeping items:

***please make sure you have completed all SUTQ paperwork and BOTH ASQ questionnaires online*** 

EEC Open House is this Thursday from 6-7:30.

As we are participating in Step Up to Quality we have decided to offer fall conferences to our families.  These conferences will be brief as we need to complete all our paperwork on all our students and have parent signatures on a review of the ASQ and ASQ-SE.  We will schedule conferences again the week of Thanksgiving to review your child’s quarterly progress with you.  Please sign up for a time on the signup genius that will be emailed out.  I will be available the night of Open house along with Sept. 22, Sept 26th and October 3rd.  For those families I see daily, there will be no need for you to schedule a conference.  I can review the results with you at drop off and have you sign off on the review.  If these dates do not fit into your family’s schedules, please email me and we will work something out.  I would love to see you all before I leave.

 Scholastic Book Fair is all week 18-22

School pictures are October 19th- forms will be going home soon

As you all know my last day with students will be October 6th as my hip surgery is on the following Monday.  I really do not want to have this done (again) but I personally am having a great deal of pain and it is becoming ever so difficult for me to give 100% of myself to the students.  I know that they will be in good hands and I will return the second week of January.