Dear Parents,
This is my final newsletter. Nov. 3rd will be my last day. I have received
many hugs and wonderful cards and words from many of my past students who
heard that I was retiring and have come by to say goodbye. I have shed many
tears and am sure I will be a “basket case” next Monday. I have already
fallen in love with each of your sweet children and will miss them
terribly! But, I will be back to see them and I am very sure that Mrs.
Landre will take them through the rest of the year with grace, confidence,
skill, and love.
The next two trimesters will be much more challenging. I know the students
will all do well because each of you is so committed to the support of your
children and their educations! Continue to work with them, as you have in
the past, and I am sure that they will be successful beyond your
expectations!
Mrs. Landre is inheriting an outstanding class. They are mature beyond their
years. They come to school with big smiles on their faces and a willingness
to not only work hard, but to help their teammates, as well. They will
continue working on Units 3 in Open Court and math. Keep your children
working on those wonderful heritage dolls, and reading every night –out loud
and with expression! Encourage them to keep journals and write their own
stories. The more they read and write, the better their scores will be at
school and the stronger their confidence and belief in themselves will be.
Mrs. Landre will be organizing her own labs and I wanted her to call on
volunteers where she needed them most. I have given her your names and she
will be in contact with you. I also filled out the report card grades and
comments and have prepared binders with copies of all the testing, so you can
have mutually enjoyable and informative report card conferences. She is also
aware of the three students who are leaving on independent study and has
binders almost ready to go for their trips. In addition, she and Mrs. Rand
in Room 16 will be organizing some intervention classes to help our
struggling readers. We have begun some book clubs for our advanced readers.
Hopefully, everyone will be able to be in at least one book club before the
end of the year.
Our room is all decorated for Halloween. Send your child with a costume that
he or she can put on alone. Come and take pictures. After the parade, we
will come back to Rm 15 for treats and good byes with parents. Take care. I
will miss you all.
Much love and many warm hugs, Mrs. Mac
Mrs. Mac’s Busy Bee Newsletter October 23, 2008
Dear Parents,
We are finishing up Unit 2 on Animals and getting excited at the thought of
studying “Things That Go.” We are either drawing pictures of transportation,
or cutting them out of magazines and newspapers and bringing them to class.
We are sorting them and mounting onto our Concept Board according to whether
the transportation is used on land, in the air, or on water. How many
unusual forms of getting around can you find? How about a hot air balloon or
a camel? Have fun being thoughtful and investigative --trying to think of a
way to travel that other might not think of!
Our trip to the zoo was wonderful! Thank you so much to the parents who
helped us by being a chaperone –Big hugs go out to Kevin’s dad, Vanshika’s
mom, and Mrs. Hubacek (a fantastic parent from last year who stepped in and
help us out!) We saw some very interesting animals and truly enjoyed
comparing the micro bats that the Bat Lady brought to show us on Thursday
with the Macro bats at the zoo! What a huge difference in size!
We continue to learn about bats, owls and spiders, and are getting to know
some of the students in Room 1, as they join us for art projects and
singing. Our Halloween party and parade will be here before we know it, so
we are hurrying to make decorations for our classroom. We never seem to have
enough hours in the day to do all the fun things we want to accomplish.
Newsflash! ---Attached is our revised Prep-Schedule! Can you believe that it
was change THREE more times during the last 2 weeks! I waited until Mrs.
Amundson assured me this one was final before sharing it with you.
Keep practicing reading at home! And, remember to play math games to
practice those addition and subtraction facts. This next trimester will be
full of new challenges and we want to be ready to meet them with great
success!
Mrs. Mac
Mrs. Mac’s Busy Bee Newsletter 10/16/08
Dear Parents,
Tomorrow is our “re-scheduled” trip to the Oakland Zoo. Thank you SOOOOOO
much to the parents of Jia, Kevin, and Vanshika for volunteering to
chaperone. We also are fortunate to have a parent from last year who was
gracious enough to agree to help us out, as we were still short chaperones ---
so a HUGE THANK YOU goes out to Mrs. Hubacek! Chaperones will be driving
themselves to the zoo, but should MEET IN ROOM 15 AT 8:30 for instructions,
map of the zoo, and a list of students in their groups. You may wish to
carpool to the zoo and back to save gas. Our buses will park near zoo’s main
entrance. We willwalk as a class to the front of the zoo and pose for a
class picture. Bring your cameras! Then we will divide into groups and walk
into the zoo together. Thank you in advance for all being on time, so we can
start off on our adventure relaxed and prepared!
ATTENTION PARENTS: Thank you in advance for remembering all lunches must
be completely disposable ---this means no containers, thermoses, etc, and
spoons, forks, or chopsticks must be disposable, as well! Everything must be
something that can be thrown away when your child finishes eating!
A big thank you to Joyce and Ankur for bringing in prizes for our Dragon
Mart! Your generosity continues to put big smiles in our hearts!
NEWSFLASH! ---Time is drawing near to begin working on the first of our grade
level projects. We will be making Heritage Dolls. Watch for instruction
sheet, form to be filled out, and cardboard doll “cutout” that will be
coming home in Monday’s homework folder. Students have three weeks to work
on this project. Due date and all instructions are on the instruction
sheet. Have fun working together on this project.
See you soon! Mrs. Mac
Important Dates To Remember:
October 17– Field Trip to the Zoo
Mrs. Mac’s Busy Bee Newsletter 10/02/08
Dear Parents,
We’ve started our Unit on Animals and are very excited for our trip to the
zoo. Thanks so much to Bhadresh’s parents for both volunteering to help us
chaperone. Also a big thank you to Vanshika’s mom for volunteering.
Finally, we really appreciate Rishab’s mom and dad for volunteering to join
us. Dad will take baby brother around the zoo, while mom helps us by
chaperoning a group of students. It is wonderful how Room 15 parents come
through when we are in need of help!
Chaperones will be driving themselves to the zoo, but should MEET IN ROOM 15
AT 8:30 for instructions, map of the zoo, and a list of students in their
groups. You may wish to carpool to the zoo and back to save gas. Our buses
will park near zoo’s main entrance. We will walk as a class to the front of
the zoo and pose for a class picture. Bring your cameras! Then we will
divide into groups and walk into the zoo together. Thank you in advance for
all being on time, so we can start off on our adventure relaxed and
prepared!
ATTENTION PARENTS: Thank you in advance for remembering all lunches must
be completely disposable ---this means no containers, thermoses, etc, and
spoons, forks, or chopsticks must be disposable, as well! Everything must be
something that can be thrown away when your child finishes eating!
A big thank you to Christopher and Joyce for bringing in prizes for our
Dragon Mart. Also a big thank you to Joseph for the wet wipes. We can
always use those! Your generosity puts big smiles in our hearts!
We are working with subtraction and learning the bones in the body, parts of
a flower, and embarking on the study of both owls and bats! Have some fun
exploration at the library on these subjects.
See you soon! Mrs. Mac
Important Dates To Remember:
October 7 – Field Trip to the Zoo
Mrs. Mac's Busy Bee Newsletter 9/25/08
Dear Parents,
We have had a great week of learning. We finished up another chapter in our
math book and will have finished Unit 1 in reading by the end of next week.
Thank you for sending in your parent sign ups. I will be sending sets of
decodable booklets home to be stapled to many of you who volunteered to do
work at home. I have divided up the work so as to not be overwhelming.
Please try to complete the project and return it within a week. Thank you
again for offering your help! Those who signed up to help in the classroom
or with the computers will be hearing from me by phone next week to set up
our schedule.
All our permission slips are in for our trip to the zoo. Thank you so much
to Vanshika’s mom for volunteering to be a chaperone. If you meant to
volunteer but haven’t, just send in a note with your child letting us know.
Each room needs to have at least 4 parent chaperones, so hopefully there are
a few more of you that could come?? or perhaps you have a grandparent, aunt
or uncle that would like to help out?
A big thank you to Rishab, Snehal, Joyce and Anna for donating books from the
Book Faire to our classroom library. A big thanks also to Joyce, Snehal,
Deeksha, Joseph, and Bhadresh for donating prizes to the Dragon Mart. We are
very excited to go shopping and spend our money next week! A heart full of
appreciation to Snehal’s family for donating money for mailing our penpal
packages. And we really appreciate Deeksha’s family donation of more wipes
for our classroom use.
We are especially grateful to Vanshika’s mom for volunteering to be our head
Room Mom this year! Her help in planning our parties will be indispensable.
She and I will be meeting
Shortly to discuss our Halloween party and parade.
See you soon! Mrs. Mac
Important Dates To Remember:
September 30 – Picture Day
October 7 – Field Trip to the Zoo
Mrs. Mac’s Busy Bee Newsletter 9/18/08
Dear Parents,
Thank you so much for coming out for Back To School Night! I am so proud so
many parents attended. Thank you, as well, for sending in both classroom
donations and field trip slips and monies. We only need to hear from four
more families! I am thrilled to have a class full of such sweet, bright
children. I know it is going to be a great year for everyone.
We will have finished up our beginning of the year testing by this Friday.
The students have been great during this arduous process. It is nice to be
able to spend more time, now, with new learning activities.
My apologies for not including the colored paper needed for this week’s word
collection page of our homework! You will find one in today’s Thursday’s
folder. If you and your child already made your collection on another piece
of paper, that is fine, too. Additionally, you will find a class schedule
and a sign up sheet for volunteering in the classroom.
We shout out a big THANK YOU to Chloe and Christopher for donating items for
our Dragon Mart, and send out warm THANKS to Joseph, Ankur, Vatsal, Chloe,
Vanshika, Snehal, and Joyce for buying books for our class from the Book
Faire. Your generosity warms our heart!
We are also happy to announce that Anna’s grandmother will be our Music for
Minor docent. We are very lucky to have her bringing music into our lives
every Thursday afternoon, starting next week.
Finally, our website update is almost complete. Check back often. We will
be adding events to our calendar, as planned, and changing web pages to keep
interest, challenge, and learning opportunities available.
See you soon! Mrs. Mac
