Thanksgiving and the middle of the 2nd 9 weeks!

       It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is less than 1 week away, and that we are in the middle of the 2nd 9 weeks!  :)  Phewwww!!!  I was just watching OUR babies--you may have given birth to them, but they are my children, too now!--- today and thinking about how much they had already grown... in heighth and in knowledge. It made me feel a little sad.  Before you know it I will be writing, "It's summer vacation, already! Can you believe how time flew??" 

       Don't forget our Thanksgiving Feast is Tuesday at 12:00 on the stage in the gym.  I have sent home reminders about what you are scheduled to bring.  Please be here by 11:30 to finish set up before we bring the kiddos down.  Please join us in eating our Thanksgiving Feast.  We would love to have you!

      Be sure to look at Scholastic online.  This is a great way to order books for the holidays without your child seeing them when they take them home.  There is a link to Scholastic online ordering on this page.  Look at the right side of the page.  When you order online, you also earn free books for our classroom and yourself.

       I have not made a link for Study Island on this page, but I would like to let you know about a great program that our school purchased 2 years ago.  It is called Study Island, and is aligned with our new Common Core Standards. Students can learn through the use of technology and GAMES!  It also has a page where I can monitor student progress. If a child is struggling in an area, it will let me know so I can work with him/her. Go to www.studyisland.com. Your child's username is his/her firstname.lastname@HCES.  Your child's default password is falcons. This is a great tool.  We often use it in the classroom together, but have not used it in computer lab because students cannot log themselves on. It takes an entire class period to log on, but that is all we get finished.  :(  If any parent would like to volunteer to help get students logged in on Tuesday mornings from 10:20-11:10, I would be happy to have you  helping!  I would really like to use this resource more frequently!