Happy Monday! And, a happy Monday it was. Thank you so much for talking to your kiddos this weekend about the issues I checked on the Weekly report. Behavior was much, much, much better today! I am impressed daily on how they are all coming along. I had a few not come back today, so please get those in ASAP. Thanks!
Cross Country Club starts tomorrow morning. If you child is participating they need to have their permission form turned in or bring it tomorrow morning. Kids need to meet at the baseball field. The times and days are on the yellow sheets that came home yesterday. Run, run, run! Fun, fun, fun!
Honor choir tryouts are Wednesday at 3:05. This is for boys and girls. If they make it through this audition then they will have another one. They will receive more information on this if they make it through.
Homework tonight is two bucket slips and to finish up unfinished classwork. I noticed a lot of kids taking stuff home. Using class time wisely helps reduce homework brought home. We are allotted 40 minutes a night for homework in the 4th grade. This is strictly homework time. If they have classwork to finish, that is in addition to the assigned homework. Homework always includes studying spelling words and some type of review practice problems from any given subject area in class. Homework to its truest form will be in full swing next week. I am trying to just let kids adjust and settle in before doing this. If your child is coming home with a lot of homework, please contact me for a conference and we will find out what the issue is.
Yesterday, I made a mistake on the blog. I had said that the Ice Cream Social was scheduled for Sept. 10th. That is incorrect. It is on September 20th. Open house is the 19th and the Ice Cream Social is the next night. Please mark the correction on your calendar.
Two informational pieces came home with kids today. The first was our Saturday Live Basket Letter. The basket crew decided that the theme would be Dinner Is Served. We are hoping to put together a wonderful basket full of all different gift cards for local restaurants in our area. Yum!!! I have put a column on the right of the blog to track these cards. Each time a donation is made, I will log it on this list. That way duplicate locations can be avoided. It would be fun to go get a gift card for YOUR child's favorite restaurant. Donations can start to come in tomorrow and will be accepted thru Sept. 20th. Please put them in an envelope and write Jennifer Haarr on the front. She will be collecting them. Again, a HUGE thank you, to Casasha, Haylee, and Taryn's mom for putting this all together! What amazing moms!!!!!
The second sheet that came home is the letter about our Journey of Fallen Rock book for S.S. I briefly talked about this on the blog this weekend. I explained it even more on the information sheet. The kids were sooooo excited to see THEIR very own signed copy of the book. We read the first chapter today. Ask your child how they are feeling about this book thus far. If they share with you write the word FALLEN in the planner for $20. We can't wait to meet the author personally in October here at Arrowhead! To ensure that your child receives their copy, please send in the $4 needed to pay for the book ASAP. Please send it in in an envelope marked with your child name.
Many of you commented in the planners that I forgot to put in a bonus word this weekend. I sure did. I am sorry about that. I sometimes just get so into the information I am sharing, that I forget the fun stuff. I apologize for that. I will try to be better about that in the future.
I sure hope that you have a great night!
Ms. Erickson
