Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week Theme: Send A Message. Stay Drug Free.
October 21-25, 2019

Red Ribbon Week is a national event that promotes drug awareness and prevention each year. At Addison, we use this week to encourage our students to make good choices. We hope you will support us in celebrating happy, healthy choices at home! J
Monday – “Make a pledge Monday!” – At the start of this nationally recognized Red Ribbon Week – Students will sign class pledge to show that they pledge to live a healthy life! Students will receive red ribbon stickers and pencils.
Tuesday – “Hats Off to Being Drug Free!” – Students will wear hats to show support.
Wednesday – “Wear Red Wednesday!” Wear red to support a healthy life!
Thursday – “Don’t Let Drugs Mix You Up!” – Students will wear mismatched clothes.
Friday – “Team up against drugs!”- Wear your favorite team gear or Addison spirit wear.

Science Lab- Making a Wind Vane

September 30-October 4

Hi,
 I hope all of you have a fun Fall break and everyone can relax! Here is a glimpse of some things we will learning about and things going on in the classroom:

Language Arts- We will be working on wordless stories. We will continue to work on good writing with beginning capitalization, spacing, punctuation and writing a narrative story. We will continue to work on Daily 5 routines. The children are doing a great job with this and learning the details of Daily 5.

Math- We will be working on subtraction with a focus on word problems and continue to work on place value. The children are doing a great job with place value and seem to have a good understanding of the tens and ones.

Science- We will be discussing magnets in Science Lab and during our STEM day.

Social Studies- We will be finishing up continents and oceans. Please continue to work on this at home as they will be assessed on this standard.

Picture day will be October 3rd and our STEM day will be October 4th. Please have your child wear their STEM shirt on the 4th. When we return from break conference sheets will be sent home. Please sign and return those ASAP. We will have student lead conferences do plan for your child to attend the first half. 

We are in need of some foam hand soap and snacks for the classroom. Please help your child to remember he/she needs a healthy snack each day, his/her agenda and take home folder. Thanks for the donations that have been made. 

Classroom and Help Needs

Hi!

I hope all of you are having a great week. As many of you know, tomorrow is our Family Fun Carnival. I am sending you a link if you are able to volunteer for this fun event. They are looking for more volunteers. We hope you can make it out with your kids and enjoy an evening of fun. Here is the link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d4cadaa28a13-addison

Also, be sure to check out the Addison website if needed. We are in need of some things for the classroom: foam hand soap, candy for the treat jar, items for my treasure box, extra snacks, games such as Jenga, puzzles (100 -200 pieces). I greatly appreciate all the items that have been donated to my classroom. Thanks for your time and continued support with your children. Please send in your child's homework notebook every Monday.

Homework Ideas: (extra to spelling work and monthly homework calendar)

• RAZ (reading books online at their level)
• using weekly spelling words in sentences (writing)- can be sent in with homework notebook each week.
• Sight Words- this helps with reading skills and writing as well
• Global Address including full home address
• Writing about activities completed for homework calendar
• Complete and return any unfinished work sent home

I hope this helps in giving you some ideas for activities at home. I am proud of your children. I can tell they are working hard.I am proud of their progress. Keep up the great work!

We are working on the following in the classroom:

Social Studies- We are discussing the continents and oceans

Language Arts- nonfiction and text texts

Writing- making good sentences/stories (beginning capitalization, spacing, ending punctuation, lowercase letters etc.)

Math- place value and counting from different numbers to 120 and writing them

Foundation and Science Lab

Dear Parents, 

We have just under 2 weeks left of AESF's funding drive to support the Science Lab. Addison families have raised just over $22,000 so far but we are only at 20% participation. 

If you haven't donated yet, please consider making a donation. All the students benefit and no amount is too small. Help us be the class with the highest participation and reach the goal of $38,000 so you child can see Mrs. Hallmark and Mr. Cohen get Yucky!!! Also, if you donate $500 or more you are automatically entered in a drawing to win 6 Disney tickets, a reserved year around parking spot, and two reserved seats for Gator Gala and Awards Day.  

Thank you for your continued support!

Readers on Friday!

Thanks to the volunteers that came in and read to the class! We enjoyed it and had so much fun! Thanks for your time!