Hello there, you will notice that your student has a blue folder with them when they come home today. This folder has some important information inside. In there you will find a family handbook on the right side, as well as a pack of forms and things on the left side. In this pack are things like health file updates, contact information, and our Elementary Technology Acceptable Use Contract. Please fill these forms out and send them back as soon as possible. We are having a wonderful first day! Make sure to check in and ask what was your student's favorite thing today.
Dave
Monday, August 28, 2017
Sunday, August 27, 2017
First day, Yellow Submarine, and Milkweed...
Tomorrow is the first day of school and I am really looking forward to seeing everyone! We will be working tomorrow on a class challenge that is focused on our Yellow Submarine, and it's colorful bubbles!
Also, I would like to rear some monarch caterpillars in our room this year, and am looking for a source for milkweed. I am thinking of trying to keep a live plant or two in a container wither in our room or just outside it. To this end if any of you have some milkweed you would be willing to dig up and send in, or would be willing to let me stop by and dig up please let me know! Thanks so much, and see you all in the morning!
Dave
Also, I would like to rear some monarch caterpillars in our room this year, and am looking for a source for milkweed. I am thinking of trying to keep a live plant or two in a container wither in our room or just outside it. To this end if any of you have some milkweed you would be willing to dig up and send in, or would be willing to let me stop by and dig up please let me know! Thanks so much, and see you all in the morning!
Dave
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Getting ready for the new year!
Hello! Just about this time every year I start to get excited for the beginning of school. This post is to share that excitement and check in with everyone out there. I am so excited to see all of you during the first weeks of school, and wanted to update everyone on a few small tidbits of information.
First off, my classroom has moved, it is now just down the hall from where it was, across from the art room and right next door to Mrs. Gannon! This move is great for a bunch of reasons: One reason is it means that my grade alike teaching partner and I will be right next door. Now this is exciting because a) my teaching partner is Mrs. Gannon, and b) all the fourth graders will be in close proximity to one another which will allow them to interact easily, as well as allow me to see students who are in a different class this year, but whom I love seeing on a daily basis. Geez, that was sort of a long cascading list of different things...
Second of all I wanted to let everyone know about supplies for the coming school year. Our classroom will have all the supplies that everyone needs for a successful and engaged year. That being said, many people still like to have some of their own stuff (I know that I certainly do). Generally speaking there are only really two physical supplies that are needed in fourth grade: something to write with, and a binder to keep things tidy. If kids would like to bring their own pencils my suggestion is a simple mechanical one (Bic makes some lovely ones that come in multi-packs for a relatively low price), and a 3 ring binder, I have some wonderful plain black ones for students but some times kids like ones with their favorite characters printed on them, or kittens and unicorns or something, you know what I am talkin' about.
Anyhow, I hope you all have a wonderful final week of summer, and I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday the 28th.
If you have any questions, drop me a line at dwillard@u32.org.
-Dave
First off, my classroom has moved, it is now just down the hall from where it was, across from the art room and right next door to Mrs. Gannon! This move is great for a bunch of reasons: One reason is it means that my grade alike teaching partner and I will be right next door. Now this is exciting because a) my teaching partner is Mrs. Gannon, and b) all the fourth graders will be in close proximity to one another which will allow them to interact easily, as well as allow me to see students who are in a different class this year, but whom I love seeing on a daily basis. Geez, that was sort of a long cascading list of different things...
Second of all I wanted to let everyone know about supplies for the coming school year. Our classroom will have all the supplies that everyone needs for a successful and engaged year. That being said, many people still like to have some of their own stuff (I know that I certainly do). Generally speaking there are only really two physical supplies that are needed in fourth grade: something to write with, and a binder to keep things tidy. If kids would like to bring their own pencils my suggestion is a simple mechanical one (Bic makes some lovely ones that come in multi-packs for a relatively low price), and a 3 ring binder, I have some wonderful plain black ones for students but some times kids like ones with their favorite characters printed on them, or kittens and unicorns or something, you know what I am talkin' about.
Anyhow, I hope you all have a wonderful final week of summer, and I am looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday the 28th.
If you have any questions, drop me a line at dwillard@u32.org.
-Dave
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