ROOM 6 NEWS
September 2007
Welcome to all new and returning JM families! I look forward to an exciting year ahead and will do everything possible to provide a positive, safe and stimulating learning environment for your child and our class.
Your child should have brought home a large manila envelope last Monday. It contains a lot of material you will find informative and may answer many questions you may have about Joaquin Miller. If you have not returned completed forms and an earthquake bag for your child, please do so ASAP! Thank you for your attention to this request.
Back to School Night is scheduled for Wednesday, September 19th. Our second grade program will take place from 6:30 – 7:15 pm. At this time I will share our academic year with you. This will include information about the second grade Living History day, the reenactment of the first Thanksgiving, which will take place early November. Please make arrangements for childcare, as this is a parent night. Mark this date on your calendar, hope to see you then!
Remember that every Wednesday, is a minimum day. Your child will be dismissed at 1:25 pm.
Have you checked out the Joaquin Miller Website? www.joaquinmiller.org
Our class has a web page where I hope to go into a reduced paper world by posting my newsletters, and reminders for the year on the page. (Once you’re on the site, click on classes, Mrs. Fong’s class.) I am asking for your email address. Whenever there’s an information update, I will send you a notification via email! Please complete the attached yellow form. Our room coordinators will develop a class roster with this information, to be used for room 6 communications only.
Thanks to Anna Bizzack (Ethan) and Amy Schoenblum (Jordan) for volunteering to be our Room Coordinators.
Our class also needs a couple parents to help out during computer lab. This commitment, if we get two volunteers, is every other week. Our time in the lab is Thursdays, 1:50-2:50 pm. If you can help, sign up on the bulletin board by the lab or send me a note and I will sign you up.
The first official homework packet comes home today! As you probably noted, your child has a homework folder. Homework is sent home on Monday and is due back Friday. The weekly homework packet includes a writing assignment, spelling words and math. Writing should be done in their journals. This way both you and I can track their progress throughout the year. A spelling pretest is given on Mondays, final spelling test on Fridays.
It’s been great getting to know the students in Room 6! They are eager and already hard at work! I look forward to an exciting year.
Posted by fong at September 3, 2007 03:42 PM