Back to a Full Five Day Week

• We are back to school with a full five days this week, and my calender is showing no interruptions this week, beyond our big Fundraising Assembly on Friday to name the top winners and give a special treat to everyone as the Fundraiser was a huge success. Thank you Parents as we all know that is in large part due to your great efforts. Unfortunately, we did not quite raise enough for Mr.Q to shave his head. (That would have been entertaining to say the least).
• We started working with Money last week in Math, so it would be very helpful if you could be getting your child to continue to count out the values of coins or ask them to show you a certain amount. The next step will be having a certain amount like $1.00 and spending $.87 and then figuring out that they would still have $0.13 left. Again, don't make this "school work". Keep it light and fun, it'll be less stressful for everyone. And it is such a powerful way to strengthen number sense and problem solving skills.
• One thing in writing we are really focusing on is to get the children to take more ownership over their writing and to keep going back to their written pieces to be the one to notice when they have forgotten a word, capital or period and fix up those errors before they share it with someone else. Some students are already doing a wonderful job of Self-Monitoring their work.