Little Blue Bulletin: 8/20-8/24

Welcome to the Little Blue Bulletin. This short newsletter will be a recap of our week. It will also give you upcoming sharing topics and other important information. It's important that you read this bulletin each week for updates.

Check attached calendar for upcoming dates.

Sharing:
Week 1: Share your baby name card. (Your teacher has it.)
Week 2: Favorite Team sport

Preparation Tips:
Start with introducing yourself. Add 2 or 3 sentences to describe your topic. Stand up straight, look at your audience, and speak clearly.

Book Bags:
Our first bookbag went home today. Please make time this week to complete the given assignments. You will find the bookbag activity inside the bag. Read the card carefully so you can follow the directions correctly. It's VERY important that you return all parts of the book bag on Thursday morning next week.

Language Arts:
This we practiced writing our names in our best handwriting. We talked about how many letters were in our names, and how are names start with capital letters. Last we talked about places in the world, and things we can do that start with the same letter as our name. Come see our names all over our room!

Math:
This week we started our skills groups for graphing and patterns. Students are learning out to sort, tally, graph, and give statements about graphs. We have been gathering many different types of data to make real graphs, pictographs and bar graphs.
We also had a celebration for our 10th day of school on Wednesday. We now are working on learning groups of ten and place value.

Social Studies:
In Social Studies we are learning about how to get along with others. We made our "Talk It Out" stoplights. It helps us learn different strategies to solve our conflicts.
Red: Stop! Cool off.
Yellow: Talk and listen to each other. Brainstorm a solution.
Green: Go! Make a plan and go for it!

Other:
We started P.E. this week. Don't forget to have your child wear short sleeves and good running shoes on Wednesday and Thursday.

Thanks!
It was great to see so many parents at lunch on the lawn. Thank you for taking time out of your busy days to come join us at school.

Little Blue Teachers