First Blog Post

Hello and welcome to the first blog post! This will be used as a communication tool to keep you updated on what we are doing in the classroom and upcoming events/reminders. Let me know at anytime if you have any questions or concerns!

Optional Survey:

I would love to get to know each student better, if you find some time, I'd love to read your answers to this survey to get a better perspective and to help each student have a wonderful school year: https://forms.gle/Rq5vQxnPhuShwsyo7

Here are a few reminders: 

• Please be sure to have the decorated writing folder returned the first week of school
• Students can bring a beach towel to leave at school for a few weeks
• My email is tumat@kaukaunasd.org 

Upcoming Events:
9/1: First Day of School

9/6: No School

9/13-917: Safety Week

Leader in Me:

NDLC has adopted a new social emotional curriculum called Leader in Me. We are so excited to start the year with it! This week we are going to really start building our classroom community. We will do this by creating a class motto, leadership roles, learn about the 7 important habits, and setting classroom expectations. More information to come on this!

Reading:
Book bags will not be sent home until the second week of school.  Please be patient with me as I work to help your child find "just-right" books to read.  Remember, you can always read a book to your student...that counts as their reading time too!! Reading at home should foster the love of reading and not become a fight, if that happens take the night off from reading. 

Writing:

As we start the year off in writing we wanted to focus on ways we can build students up to feel more successful writing outside of school.  

We are going to explore the many ways people write daily:

--Why they write?

--What they write?

--Who they write for?

--How they prepare to write?

--And tools they use to write?

(And at the end of the week we'll share our work with you!!)

Math:
In math we will spend the week building routines and habits.  More importantly we will have lessons around growth mindset.  We want students to see that it's important to take risks.  When we take risks we learn and grow...even if we make mistakes! 

Books we'll be reading:

Over the course of our first week we will be reading many book written to create a classroom community. Here is a picture so you can ask them at home about the stories and the lessons they teach!