THANKS

I wanted to thank each and everyone of you for making our conferences so successful!  I had 100% of the parents and students that were scheduled attended conferences!  That is wonderful.  Thank you for making your child's education top priority!  You are GREAT!

Just a reminder that tonight is FUN night here at Hawthorne.  The cost is $5.00 to get a wristband and that will let you jump in the bouncy activities and also play the games.  There will also be wonderful food available at a small price.  I hope you all can make it, it should be an exciting evening.

Also please keep sending in those box tops, milk moola, soup labels and milk caps.  We are hoping to win this party since we have not had much luck winning anything else.

I hope your child has told you about the new books we have gotten in our classroom - they are wonderful.

Keep Saving!

Keep Saving and sending in these items.  We are currently in 3rd place for the school.  1st place has

1st Place~ Rowland- K- $78.10 & 278 Soup Labels                        = 1554 Points

3rd Place~ Neumann- 3rd Grade- $45.55 & 320 Soup Labels          = 915 Points

If we get the most, our class gets to have a special party that we get to help plan!

VALENTINE LIST

This is the letter that I am sending home today to let you know about Valentine's day.  If you have any questions, please let me know.  I look forward to seeing all of you at conferences.  If you have not signed the blue conference letter sheet, please do so and send it back to me ASAP.  I hope that everyone has a time that works for them.

Mrs. Neumann’s Class Valentine List

Aryssa                      Dakota

Alex                         Emma

Aaron                      Amy

Anna                       Vianney

Jaxon                       Brady

Nyalaam                  Emily

Christian                  Raven

Nick                        Darsh

Yash                         Iain

William                  Regina

Jacy                         David

Riley                       Jacob

Cody                       Mrs. Ille

If you would like to bring Valentines for your classmates, please remember to bring one for everyone on the list.  We will be having our party on Tuesday, February 14.

Upcoming Information

Conference letters go home tomorrow, (Friday, January 27).  Please write this on your calendar.  Conferences are on Thursday, February 9 from 3:30 - 7:00, Friday, February 10 from 7:30 - 3:30, and Thursday, February 16 from 3:30 - 7:00.  I do not have many open spaces, so please let me know as soon as you can if your time does not work so we can figure out a better time.  Thanks!

On Wednesday, February 1 we will have our Reading Rocks and Math Rolls presentation.  Can't wait it should be exciting. 

We will have our Valentine's party on Tuesday, February 14.  If your students wants to bring Valentines to school, they must bring one for everyone.  I will be sending home a list of student names soon. 

Please remember their is NO SCHOOL on Monday, February 20.  This is President's day.

Fun night is planned for Friday, February 24.  I am sure they are still looking for volunteers.  This takes a lot of people to make it a success, so please consider helping out. 

January News!

We had our Reading Rocks presentation on January 5.  We added a Math component to our assembly - it is called Math Rolls!  We learned about asking questions as we read.  This is what good readers do!


We also welcomed a new student to our class.  Her name is Emily.  She is from Texas.  Boy was she surprised to feel our cold weather.


On January 10th, we took our AIMS Web reading tests.  The students did awesome with this, they all made gains! YEAH!  I will be sharing this information with you at the upcoming conferences.


On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we learned about Martin.  We read a story that his sister wrote about him.  Ask your child about what they learned.


On January 19th we had an all school assembly.  This was a lot of fun.  Each grade level shared a poster of what they have been learning.  We also practiced our PAWS and CLAWS and sang a song with the whole school.  We also toured the school to see all of the learning that is going on here at Hawthorne.  Wow!  what cool stuff everyone is doing.  If you come to school you should check out some of the work that is hanging in the hallways. 


Tomorrow we have Reader's Theatre.  The story that will be presented to us is Jack and the Beanstalk.  Also look for the conference letters that I will be sending home tomorrow.   Please send them back as soon as you sign them and mark them on your calendar. 

Holiday Break!

Happy Holidays! 

I hope that you will enjoy this break with your families.  I will be sending home a packet for you to work on over the break.  I encourage families to work on some of it together.  The first page in the packet will have some directions.  The pages are color coded, so the yellow pages are some fun math games, the blue pages are some old DOL's that we have done for writing and the pink pages are reading practice pages.  Please take some time to work on some or all of this packet.  I would like to encourage every student to still do as much "Good Fit Book" reading as they can and log their minutes in their assignment book.  Let's see how many total minutes as a class we read over break.  It will be 12 days of break.  I do not expect you to read everyday, but if you are traveling, it really helps pass the time in the car, on the plane, or on a train, however you maybe getting to where you are going.

I wish everyone a safe, and happy holiday season!  See you next YEAR! 2012!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Greetings to all families.  I hope everyone has an enjoyable long weekend and that you will be able to spend some quality time with your families, near and far. 
Please take some time with your student and play some games.  I would also like to encourage you to read together, and also have your student spend some extra time just reading.  With four days off of school sometimes we forget that this is a great time to dive into our favorite books.  We can actually spend more time reading then just our daily goals! Also remember to record all of those minutes in your assignment books.  If you are traveling, reading in the car on the drive helps a lot to pass the time.

Have a wonderful, safe, break and I look forward to seeing all of you on Monday, November 28!