Parent-Teacher Conferences

I am looking forward to meeting all of you next week. If for any reason you cannot make your appointment please call me at 678-2285 so that we can re-schedule your conference for Friday, October 5th.



Saturday, Sept. 29	Monday, October 1st	Tuesday, October 2nd	Wednesday, October 3rd	Thursday, October 4th	Friday, October 5th
		James @ 6:50			Make-up Day
	Jacey@ 7:10	George@ 7:10
Truth @ 9:00	Isabelle@ 7:30	Kyoko@ 7:30	Natalie@ 7:30	Lucien@ 7:30	Mikayla@ 7:30
Hallie@ 9:30	Aminah@ 9:30		Owen@ 9:30
	Gina@ 9:50			Katie@ 10:10
	Undra' 10:10	Asa @ 10:10	Sasha@ 10:10
		Saviva@ 3:00	Cooper@ 3:00
	Autumn@ 3:20	Jacob@ 3:20

October 1-5 Parent Teacher Conferences & Progress Reports

October 4 (Thursday) Parents Coffee -7:30am -8:15am

October 4 (Thursday) Awards Assembly -8:15am in Playroom

October 8-19 Fall Break- No School

October 8-12 Fall- Intersession

October 22 School Resumes

Weekly Update

Next week we will begin our 5th novel. All three classes voted and the winning book is Julie of the Wolves!

1973 Newbery Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Miyax, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl is completely and utterly lost on the tundra of the North Slope of Alaska. This is so not good. She has run away from home and her boy-husband in Barrow, Alaska, and is headed for San Francisco to meet her pen pal, Amy. But things aren't going too well, apparently.
But our girl has a plan. She will become a member of a pack of wolves, which will give her access to food. So using their gestures, mannerisms, and howls, she manages to become friends with the pack, led by a regal wolf named Amaroq. She lives among them for a while, but when winter approaches, the wolves leave her to take up the nomadic (traveling) life of winter.
As Miyax thinks about this setback – now she's really alone – she remembers everything that happened in her life that got her to this point.

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thank you for returning the parent teacher conference sheets back to me so quickly.  I will send home a master list of the conference times tomorrow.  Please note that I have scheduled a twenty-minute meeting for every parent. Additionally, many conferences are scheduled back to back. Therefore it would be helpful if you could be in our classroom at your scheduled time so that we may make the most out of our discussion. If for any reason you cannot make your appointment please call me at 678-2285 so that we can re-schedule your conference for Friday, October 5th (our make-up day).

Saturday, Sept. 29	Monday, October 1st	Tuesday, October 2nd	Wednesday, October 3rd	Thursday, October 4th	Friday, October 5th
		James @ 6:50			Make-up Day
	Jacey@ 7:10	George@ 7:10	Hallie@ 7:10
Truth @ 9:00	Isabelle@ 7:30	Kyoko@ 7:30	Natalie@ 7:30	Lucien@ 7:30	Mikayla@ 7:30
	Aminah@ 9:30		Owen@ 9:30
	Gina@ 9:50			Katie@ 10:10
	Undra' 10:10	Asa @ 10:10	Sasha@ 10:10
		Saviva@ 3:00	Clerisa@ 3:00
	Autumn@ 3:20	Jacob@ 3:20

Socks

Thank you to all of you who signed up to bring food, supplies, and smiles for Grandparent's Day.

It was a pleaseure for me to meet everyone this morning. 

Overview

Socks is the name of the newest character to be created by Beverly Cleary. He is a young tabby cat with four white paws, and he lives happily with a young married couple, Marilyn and Bill Bricker. The center of the Bricker household, Socks rules it affectionately but firmly.

Into this loving home, however, comes another pet. This creature has a small, wrinkled, furless face, and Mr. and Mrs. Bricker spend an inordinate amount of time trying to burp it. Its arrival fills Socks with jealousy and a terrible anxiety. How the rivalry between Socks and Charles William, the Bricker baby, turns into an alliance makes a domestic drama both touching and funny.


Although her story is about a cat and faithful to his point of view in every detail, Mrs. Cleary demonstrates with it the emotional upheaval experienced by a child who must learn to share his parents. As young readers come to understand Socks and his problems, they will gain a new understanding of themselves. But, most of all, they will laugh.