We're BACK!!! Quarter 2, HERE WE COME!

Happy Monday everybody!!! We are back in action! First of all, thank you so much to everyone for taking time out of your busy lives to come to conferences last week and learn about all of the wonderful things your child is doing in first grade! I loved having the opportunity to visit with each one of you about your amazing children. We got right back into the swing of things today. I enjoyed hearing about all of your fall break adventures in their journals this morning. Sounds like everyone had a good or adventurous time! A few injuries, stings, vacations, staycations and playdates made for some great share-outs today. We kicked off second quarter in math today with learning some tricks for story problems. Today we learned about some "brain alarm" words to help us know what to do when we are reading story problems. Check with your child to see if they can remember what the words are in a story problem to help us to we are going to PT+ to find the answer. Also, we learned about the strategy of drawing pictures in story problems because the "PROOF IS IN THE PICTURE!". Thank you to everyone who brought us apples for Apple Week this week! If you did not send an apple in today, no worries! Feel free to send one in tomorrow. We had so much generosity that I think we have plenty for everyone! Thank you so much. Don't forget that next week is Pumpkin Week and we need each child to have their own pumpkin. I noticed that they marked them 1/2 off at Walmart this weekend, if you still need one! Thank you in advance. Don't forget that tomorrow is our annual Taco Dinner and Cookie Dough Pick-Up! We will be serving a FREE taco dinner from 5-7 for families, so come on over! Also, if you sold Cookie Dough (and LOTS of you did since we were the top-selling class) it will be available to pickup tomorrow as well! Did you get our letter about our Basket for our annual Basket Auction? We have a Family Golf-themed basket cooking, so if you can donate any items big or small to our collection it would be awesome! All the proceeds from this awesome event go directly back into the classrooms. Let me know if you have any questions. Finally, next week is our Fall Party already! Where did October go? Yikes! Please mark your calendars that next Thursday October 31 from 12-1:30 will be our "Fall Festival". This will be a first grade opportunity to showcase what we've learned about plant lifecycles and experiment with some different activities. Parents are invited to help run different stations and hang out with us! THEN, at 2:30 we will be having our traditional Fall PARTY! This is where we will eat our treats, play games and make crafts before we head out for the evening festivities. As always, parents are welcome to attend one or all of the day's events. Let me know if you have any questions or if I can plan on you to come by and help us out! Here is a schedule of our Specials for the week: Monday= B Tuesday= C Wednesday= D Thursday= A Friday= B Have a wonderful night! Don't forget to send your child in a jacket tomorrow...it was pretty chilly at recess this morning. See you soon!