Important News - Read All the Way Through

Just a few quick thoughts. WANTED to post this on Thursday after Open House, but for some reason, we had no Internet (or TV) service with Cox Cable.

• Thanks to all who were able to come to Open House! I talked to 22 families!
• Please make sure your child wears his/her name sticker on Tuesday.
• Please make SURE your child wears his/her bus tag EVERY day.
• Please check the agenda pocket daily for info. We will be sending home so much info that needs to be signed and returned....I'm not even sure it will all fit in that agenda pocket!
• This year, Mrs. Cox would like the children to wear a bus wristband for the first 4 days. It has bus info on it. It's waterproof and the info was written with a Sharpie, so it SHOULD hang in there, LOL. They will be wearing the wristbands home on Tuesday.
• We will meet in the gym in the mornings for the first 4 days at least.
• If you want your child to eat breakfast at school and you did NOT write a note to that effect on the Info Sheet, email me, please.
• Here is our resource schedule. I will update the Resources/Schedules page on this blog sometime before school begins: Monday = PE (Mr. Riley)   Tuesday = Music (Mrs. Gibson)   Thursday = Art (Mrs. Pait)  Friday = Library (Mrs. Eggers and Mrs. Cimbron)
• Due to extremely large class sizes in kindergarten, they will be hiring an additional kindergarten teacher. The office will determine which students are pulled from each classroom to populate the new class. We have no word on when this will occur...

• MY CLASS WILL BE SPLIT FOR LUNCH - LOL, well, that sounds odd. What I mean is this: in an effort to maximize instructional time, AS OF THIS WRITING, it has been determined that half of my class will have lunch every day beginning at 11:15 and the other half will have lunch beginning at 11:20.  They will sit at adjoining tables in the cafeteria, so that Mr. Ward will be able to monitor everyone. They will ALL get their full half hour for lunch. Children will be assigned to one time or the other and will not switch times. The children will be reunited after lunch. Bear in mind that this is NOT set in stone, but as of yesterday, this was the plan. More details as I get them. I am actually excited about this, because it allows us to utilize every moment possible during our morning literacy instruction!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing the students again on Tuesday! Check back before then...I will probably post again before school starts!