Buddy Reading

Every Wednesday our students get to work with their kindergarten buddy from Ms. Cadieux's classroom.   Each week your child will be reading to his or her buddy.  If you have any easy books at home that you no longer use, we would love to have them to read to our buddies!  The kids started last week by interviewing their buddy to find out what he or she is interested in.  We had so much fun!

Friday Success

Every Friday the students who have turned in all their homework and have had excellent behavior get to participate in Success.  It is a time at the end of the day for students to just relax and have fun.  Each week your child has math homework.  In addition, sometimes your child might bring home an extra paper for practice, or something that needs to be signed by parents.  Please make sure you check your child's planner each day.  That also means your child must be prepared every day by bringing the planner to school!  Please make sure your child has his or her planner every day!

Short Vowel Shake It!

Learning short vowels can be fun!  Click here to see the chant we use in class.  Feel free to practice it at home too!

After

The boxes are empty and we are into our third week of school.  It's been a rough start this year!  We are still experiencing problems with our technology and waiting for some things to get finished from the construction this past summer.  Speaking of summer, it' super HOT in our classroom!  Even though we got new windows, they don't keep out the sun or the heat.  They installed new pipes for the heating systems, but we do NOT have air conditioning and it is in the upper 80s in our classroom all day.  Feel free to send a bottle of water (with a tight cover) to school with your child. 

Before...

This is what I came back to on Monday.  This summer Russell Academy was thrilled to get new floors and windows, along with some other improvements to the building.  At the end of the school year last year, movers came in and packed up the entire building.  They moved everything back in and the unpacking began.  It took me all week to unpack and try to get the classroom looking good.  I'm excited for you to all see it.  My husband came in every day to help and I had a friend or two help at times.  I'm looking forward to meeting all my students and having a great year together!

Special Performance

Today two of our students did a performance for our class.  They have been working hard practicing their parts and getting ready for this day.  Good job Frida and Zoe!

Science Fun

This week the students have been going through the steps of the scientific process.  This experiment they had to decide which would drop first, a roll of heavy tape, or a paperclip.  Gravity is amazing!