BACK TO SCHOOL!!

School Supplies: 24 count Crayola crayons are acceptable. Disregard the supply list requirement of 16-count crayons.

If you are stopping by the school in the next week to purchase your supply bags and composition books, I would like to invite you to also drop off your school supplies in the classroom. If you are unable to do so, I would like to request that you follow the following schedule for sending in school supplies during the first week.

  • Tuesday 8/25: Supply bags, pencils, erasers, glue sticks, crayons/markers/highlighter, and agenda book
  • Wednesday 8/26: Folders, notebooks, dry erase markers, place mat, scissor
  • Thursday 8/27: Tissue boxes, sanitizer, wipeups
  • This is not an official school supply, but I would like each student to have a sock to store the dry erase markers in. It doubles as a white board eraser for the small boards we use each day during math time. Finally, a school supply that puts the lost sock mate to good use! (Bring this on Tuesday or before.)

Additional items needed for the classroom: paper plates (dinner and dessert sizes), ziploc baggies (all sizes), AA batteries for our "listen to reading" cd players, markers of all kinds.

Labeling Supplies: If you could, please use a Sharpie marker to put your child's name on the inside of the supply bag, initials on the glue sticks, glue stick caps, dry erase markers, highlighters, and full name inside the agenda book in pen or pencil. If you stop by on Sunday after Mass or Monday sometime, I can help you label the supplies.

BOOK COVERS: During the first week, I will have the students bring home one book each night to be covered. You may use the fabric book covers or you can use the old-fashioned brown paper bag covers. Our social studies and reading books are "jumbo-sized" and the Everyday Math reference book is the smaller size if you are buying the fabric covers. Please look through the books on the nights they are sent home to get an idea of the content we will be covering this year.

Writing Center Wish List: scented markers, fine-point markers for writing, fancy pens, & stationary cards, paper, and envelopes.

2nd grade has PE on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. However, the first PE day for 2nd grade will be Thursday the 27th, our first full day of school. Be sure that your child has athletic shoes, the Holy Family PE uniform, and girls must have their hair pulled back. I recommend that you purchase a package of rubber bands for your daughter's hair and keep it in the PE bag.

Snacks: Please pack your child a nutritious snack each day. We have a 15 minute snack break each and every day at 10:15 a.m. I always have kids who forget, so I would like to have emergency snacks available. If you would like to be one of several "snack parents" who send in extra food items for us, please send me an email and I will start that list. This can be a service hour opportunity.

Suggested Items for "Class Snacks:" Pretzels, animal crackers, individual fruit cups, applesauce cups, (and please include a pack of spoons), Goldfish, Cheese-Itz, and Chex Mix are popular items. Watch for the Publix "buy one, get one free" sales if you are a class snack provider!

Great Snack Suggestions for Everyone: Think protein! Cheese sticks and a handful of nuts (pistachios, almonds, walnuts, etc...), peanut butter and apple slices (shake slices up with a splash of apple or orange juice to keep from turning brown, or sprinkle some cinnamon on them), green peppers or carrot slices with ranch dressing, a couple of ham rolls with a splash of mustard, a bag of fresh grapes or cherries, a banana, a yogurt or pudding cup, cheese and crackers. For optimum classroom performance, please try to AVOID SUGAR for snacks and lunches.

Dismissal: EXTENDED DAY is available during the first week of school, even the noon dismissal days. Be sure to stop by the school office to fill out the Extended Day enrollment form prior to the first day of school, and please send me an email to let me know the days that your child will attend.

Additionally, I appreciate knowing in advance if your child will be picked up from the single-child car line, the car-pool line, or if he/she will be goin to extended day, especially during the first week.

Disclaimer: I noticed several typos on this page before I sent out my email to ask everyone to check here for information. If you read this page prior to my editing, "Oops! Sorry!" I am working on a new laptop and the typing is not what I am used to! I hope I caught all of the errors this time. :o)