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Open House

Thank you to all of the families who were able to come meet with me at Open House last night!

It was really nice to meet all of you and go over the upcoming school year. For anyone who missed last night or would like to look at the slideshow I am attaching it here.

Open House Slide Show

I also sent two sets of papers home in your child's folders. There is an acceptable use form for the internet as well as school compact. If you could please fill these forms and return them if you did not already do so at the Open House. Thank you!

This week we had our first full week of school and it went very well! We have continued to work on learning our routines and rules. We are up to 13 minutes of independent reading, 10 minutes of writing as well as 10 minute of buddy reading. I'm so impressed with all of the kiddos.

We also began doing math centers. In the math centers I meet with one group of students while other children are on the iPads playing math games and one group plays math games with friends. The kids are really enjoying math centers!

Next week is a short week with no school on Thursday and Friday.


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