November 26, 2012

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! We only have 3 ½ weeks until Christmas break and it is going to fly by! Here are some announcements for the week.

The holiday shop is going to begin this week. It is not a fundraiser, rather a way to have your child shop for gifts for family members. If you would like your child to do this please send the money to school with them on Thursday. This is the day we have for the children in our class to go buy holiday shop items. Please send a note with the money and let us know who you want your child to be buying gifts for. Miss Elliott or I will be going with the kids to the holiday shop to make sure they are spending the money how you want them to. There is also information about this in the Link. It is of course entirely optional. 

The weather is starting to turn cold so a lot of kids are bringing jackets to school. If your child wants to wear it inside the classroom it must be solid red, white or navy blue. They can wear any color jacket outside. Please put their name on all jackets! There are a lot of identical jackets so they are easily mixed up without names. It can also help to put our room number, 307, on the jacket so if it gets left outside it can be returned to the proper place. Please also remember that all clothes that are worn under the uniform and visible need to be red, white or navy blue as well.

Our holiday concert is on Tuesday, December 11^th at 2pm in the cafeteria. This is different than the school wide holiday concert which first grade does not participate in. I hope to see you all there!

Don’t forget that the homework packet that was passed out the Friday before break is due this Friday. The spelling test on those words will be given this Friday as well!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! The easiest way to reach me is by e-mail. My e-mail address is jcochran@lpatucson.org. I will respond within 24 hours.

November 19, 2012

There is no school on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of this week for Thanksgiving. I also wanted to let you know that our last day of school before Christmas is December 19^th. It is a half day with no after school. 

Thank you so much to everyone who sent in corn. You can still send it in tomorrow if you would like! The Thanksgiving feast is tomorrow. It is served free of charge to all students at the school so your child does not need to bring a lunch or lunch money for tomorrow.

Just a reminder that our first grade Christmas program is on Tuesday, December 11^th at 2pm in the cafeteria. I hope to see you all there!

The weather is starting to turn cold so a lot of kids are bringing jackets to school. If your child wants to wear it inside the classroom it must be solid red, white or navy blue. They can wear any color jacket outside. Please put their name on all jackets! There are a lot of identical jackets so they are easily mixed up without names. It can also help to put our room number, 307, on the jacket so if it gets left outside it can be returned to the proper place. Please also remember that all clothes that are worn under the uniform and visible need to be red, white or navy blue as well. 

The Display My Art materials will be coming home today. Your child completed a drawing at school and you can get it put on various items if you would like. Each child got a magnet with their design on it as well as an order form in case you would like to order anything. You can order online or return the form to school. The orders are due on November 26^th so that we can get them back to you in time for the holidays. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! The easiest way to reach me is via e-mail. My e-mail address is jcochran@lpatucson.org.  

Here are the spelling words for the week. Please remember the spelling test will be given on November 30th.

1. cupcake

2. softness

3. lightly

4. colorless

5. paint

6. play

7. gray 

8. hopeless

9. lonely

10. explain

Bonus Words:

1. chilly

2. November

November 12, 2012

Here are a couple announcements for the week!

We are still looking for donations of canned corn. Please send them to school by next Tuesday for our Thanksgiving Feast. The Thanksgiving Feast is served free of charge to all students at our school, and will be served on Tuesday so your child does not need to bring lunch or lunch money on that day. We need enough corn to feed 750 people so please send in a couple cans if you are able!

We are getting to the time of the year when kids start wearing jackets to school. Your child can wear any color of jacket outside, but if they want to wear it in the classroom it must be solid red, white or navy blue. Please make sure you put your child's name somewhere on the jacket. It can also be helpful to put our room number, 307, on the jacket. This makes it easier for people to bring it back to the right place if it gets lost. As you can imagine, we have a lot of identical jackets around school so without a name it is pretty common for a kid to pick up the wrong jacket thinking it is theirs.

If you child wants to wear anything under their uniform, for example leggings or an undershirt with long sleeves, it must also be red, white or navy blue.

We will have our first grade Christmas program on December 11th at 2:00pm in the cafeteria. First grade has their Christmas program separate from the rest of the school so please make a note of the different date. We'd love to see you all there!

We have a penny war going on this week to benefit a school affected by Hurricane Sandy. If you have any extra change laying around please feel free to send it in! Thank you!

There will be no school next Wednesday, Thursday or Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday. This means that homework will be sent home this Friday as usual, but it won’t be due back until the Friday after the break, November 30^th. The spelling test for those words will be given on November 30^th as well.

Here are the spelling words for this week:
1. cry
2. sleepy
3. eraser
4. might
5. silly
6. fry
7. high
8. butter
9. sly
10. sharper

Bonus words:
1. Autumn
2. leaf

November 5, 2012

Please make sure you are reading the link every week for the school wide announcements. My newsletter is mostly used for classroom announcements, so please read them both! If there is a week where I do not have any special classroom announcements I will not send home a classroom newsletter.

We are preparing for our school wide Thanksgiving feast. Every class contributes something to the feast and first grade's food is corn. Please send in a can or two of corn to contribute to the feast. We need to have enough corn to feed close to 800 people so if you can contribute a couple cans it would be very much appreciated! Please send it in the can, we cannot serve premade food at school. We need the corn by Monday, November 19th. Thank you so much for your help!

Here are the spelling words for the week:

1. stable
2. ruffle
3. simple
4. puddle
5. little
6. jingle
7. uncle
8. muzzle
9. hassle
10. pickle
Bonus words:
1. turkey
2. Thanksgiving