Welcome Miss Lee!

Our class has a new assistant teacher! Miss Lee will be working with us in the mornings until lunch. She is wonderful! When you drop off your child, come up and meet her!

Festival in the Park

Festival in the Park!

Our class will be attending Festival in the Park this Friday at Freedom Park. We will leave the school around 9am and return in time for dismissal. Many of the booths will have activities for kids. We will also be receiving one of our ecosystem lessons from Miss Staci while we are there. If you would like to come with us, please see me so I can tell you about our schedule.

Below is a list of things your child will need:

-snack

-lunch

-water bottle

-walking shoes

-comfy clothes

-sunscreen, hat, sunglasses are optional

Why do we practice spelling and ways to learn spelling words

We are all writers! We all have something to say, and it is important to be able to effectively communicate our ideas to others through our writing. Spelling our words correctly will help us to do this! It is an important part of our writing lives! Each week, students will be responsible for learning 10 words. They will write their spelling words on Mondays in their agendas, and will practice them at home. On Fridays, students will be tested on their words. I am trying to ensure that they do this, but some students might fly under my radar! So please check their agendas on Mondays to see that they have some words to learn. Below are some ideas to help students learn spelling words.

Strategies to learn spelling words:

- Write spelling words 3 times each

- Put words in ABC order

- Categorize words

- Make or purchase letters that can be manipulated to spell words

- Spell words in a pan of sand with a stick

- Make a big alphabet chart on poster board and tap out letters with a flyswatter to spell words

- Write sentences using the words

- Make flash cards for the words

- Write acronym poems with the words

Composting Newsletter

We are composting!

We are composting at CCS! We want to help the planet like worms, trees, flowers, and our Friendship Garden by composting.

Composting is turning some of our food trash, and things that were once living that are found outside into good soil.

We will compost at CCS by saving some of our food left over from lunch. We will also collect dried leaves and other things outside that were once living.

Composting Do’s: Composting Don’ts:

-fruit -meat

-worms -ice cream

-soil -cake

-sun -fabric

-vegetables -milk

-water -juice

-paper -candy

-bark

-leaves

This newsletter was created by Kylie, Callie, Zoe, Greyson, Arianna, Joneisha, and Chantail

Week of September 8-11

We are going to have a busy week!

Tuesday (Sept. 8)- we are going to ImaginOn. Don't forget your library books and library cards! We welcome parents coming with us!!!

Wednesday (Sept. 9)- we will be having our first ecosystem lesson with Miss Staci from Reedy Creek at Freedom Park from 1-3pm. There will be a note sent home on Tuesday telling parents more about this.

Friday (Sept. 11)- half day; students need to be picked up by 1:00.

**The rest of the week will be spent decorating our classroom shirts and preparing a presentation on composting that our class is doing for the whole school!

Classroom Shirts: (we could use the following if you have them at home)
-buttons with big holes
-big knitting needles
-knitting/craft thread
-fabric scraps
-sewing sissors (they will be returned!)

*we could also use some parent volunteers in decorating our shirts!