October 2020

 Thank you for helping to get our school year off to such a wonderful start!  I have been enjoying my time with your children thus far, and am so very glad that we have the rest of the year to spend together.  Thank you, also, for your patience, and prayer as I have been out with back issues. I am praying for answers soon! My family and I have been blessed by your kindness and generosity in providing meals for us during this time.

Bible memory books are due on Friday, October 16. The verse is Genesis 8:22 - "As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

Please be sure to send your child's Bible memory book to school on Friday, October 16. I will send a new verse on Tuesday, October 20.

Our classroom is full of excited learners this year!   We have been reading Colors Glowing, our first story reader of the year.  The students are having a good time reading about the Miller and Lopez families, and we have had a few good laughs together at some of the silly situations that the characters find themselves in!  Reading homework begins this month. You should have received your child's reading tracking calendar in his/her homework folder on October 1. Your child's goal is to read (aloud to a grown-up) for 150 minutes this month.

We are working on many interesting things in math class this year,  and I would like to ask for your help.  I would like each child to spend some time at home practicing math flash cards for addition and subtraction.  These can be bought (they are available at Wal-Mart, as well as many other stores) or made with index cards or poster board.  Children should practice addition and subtraction facts up to 20.  This will help your child as concepts become more difficult in math class, as well as when we begin administering timed tests. We will begin using our Kickin' It math minutes program soon and the students are very excited to begin earning belts for knowing math facts!

          A Look Ahead:

~There is no school on Tuesday, November 3. This is Election Day and our school is a polling location for East Nottingham Township.                  

          ~The First Quarter will end on Thursday, November 5.  Report Cards will be sent home via RenWeb on Friday, November 13.

~Picture Day will be on Tuesday, November 10.

          ~Conferences will be held on Thursday, November 19. There will be no school on this day. Please watch for information to be sent home in the white envelopes.

~Wednesday, November 25 will be a half-day of school. School will be closed Thursday, November 26-Monday, November 30 for Thanksgiving Break. We resume school on Tuesday, December 1.

Thanks!

            Again, thank you for your help thus far, and I look forward to continuing to work with each of you as our school year progresses!  

 In Him,

                                 Jackie McClure