Production Clothing

Please send your student in normal clothes for the day tomorrow. Preferrably something easy to change out of and into because we will be changing into the costumes prior to the show. They will wear their costumes during the entire show.

However, please make sure to send them in BLACK shoes.

Also, don't forget to send water and food with them as there will be nothing for them to purchase at school. Water is not available. You can send what you normally send them for lunch, or something to act as a dinner since they will be there late.

Thank you for your help!

See you all tomorrow!

Please feel free to email me with any questions. I will check my email often.

General Announcements

- Tomorrow is the last day to send in the trip money. Please remember to send it in because we will not accept late money.

- Please remember to send a sweater with your students. The AC is on in the classroom again now that it is hot out and some students are complaining of being cold. If your student is cold in class, please send them a sweater.

- Also, many students have been running out of water in the middle of the day. Please send extra water with them every day so they have enough for the whole day.

Thank you! 

Production Day Information

v There is no regular school for KG and Elementary students. Rather they should arrive to school either by car or by bus at 2:00pm. Please make sure you arrive on time. Before 2:oopm there will not be supervision for your students, so please bring them at the correct time.

v We have a rehearsal at 2:30 so again, please be on time so that your student may participate in the rehearsal. If they are late, this could cause problems.

v Parents and guests should arrive at 5:15pm. The show will start exactly at 5:30. Please come at 5:15 so that you may find a seat and be ready for the show. If you show up late, you may miss some performances.

v There WILL NOT be food or drinks for your students to buy while they are here so PLEASE send plenty of food and water for them to last them through the evening.

v Immediately following the show, please come to your student’s classroom to pick them up. The teachers will be leaving right after the performance so we need you to come pick up your students as soon as possible.

v Mr. Abaza has requested that your students wear all black shoes for the performance.

Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to sharing our performances with you! 

Several Important Announcements

~~My flash drive was found!!!! It was returned to me on Thursday. Thank you so much for your help looking around at home. It paid off! I really appreciate it!

~~A field trip permission slip was sent home on Thursday. It is our last trip of the year and we are making it a fun one! Please return the slips with the fee as soon as possible.

~~You may have noticed that on Thursday your student brought home a copy of the Mother's Day video in their home file. I am sorry that it took me so long to get it to you. There were a lot of mishaps in making them, but we finally completed them. I hope you enjoy it! We had lots of fun making it!

~~I know it's nearing the end of the year and we only have 12 school days left! However, we still have TONS of learning to do to finish out the year. Since we don't have exams in Grade 1, we continue learning new things all the way until the last week of school. Therefore, if you could, please try to make sure your student comes to school each day and arrives on time at 7:45am or they could be missing out on valuable lessons. It's hard to for them to complete lessons or projects when they are absent. Thank you for your cooperation.


--Thursday is our annual production. There will be a separate post coming with more detailed information about it soon. However, I just wanted to let you know that you can send in money to purchase tickets, but the tickets are also available for purchase at the door on Thursday evening. Also, your students who are performing are free but everyone else needs a ticket. However, if you have a young child who may be sitting on your lap, you do not need to purchase a ticket for them. You only need to purchase a ticket for individuals who will need to sit in a chair.



12 more days of school!!!! Our monthly value this month is perseverance. Please help us remind your students to keep working hard and being focused all the way until the last day. Thanks for all your support this year. Let's finish the year out strong!

Lost Flash Drive

Yesterday when I was absent, it seems that a flash drive of mine was misplaced. This flash drive has all of my classroom teaching resources on it and lessons plans for the rest of the year.

The teachers in the room last saw it sitting on the computer table in class.

I just wanted to ask that you check and see if you notice it around your house or check your student's pants pockets from Sunday or Monday. It is a very small flash drive so it could have easily fallen off the table into someone's pocket or backpack if they bumped the table or anything.

It is a small, dark blue, HP 8gb flash drive.

I don't think it will be at any of your homes, but I figured I would ask you to keep an eye out for it anyway, just in case it made it that way. There is a lot of irreplaceable resources and files on it, so I'd just appreciate if you could take a quick look around for me.

Thank you so much for your help!

Announcements

We were so happy to have everyone back at school today after the break!

Today, in the homework file, you will see two Journeys books. In the bottom corner, it will say Volume 1 and Volume 2. Volume 1 is the one we have been working in since the beginning of the year. It is now finished, so we are starting volume 2 this week. Please keep Volume 1 at home, it is yours to keep.

There is also some graded homework in the Homework file. Please keep that at home also.

The homework for this week is posted on the homework page. Please remember to check the homework page from a computer or laptop as we have been told that it does not work correctly on ipads/tablets.

I updated the calendar on the side of the blog with important dates.

Lastly, over the break my laptop screen was broken, so I can no longer access the school email from my personal computer. So if you need to email me, please contact me at my personal email that I use for classroom business, mrs.benfer@gmail.com. Thank you!



Our monthly value this week is Perseverance. Ask your students what this means! We learned about it today. It's a big word, but they should be able to tell you all about it!

We are having this value because even though it is almost the end of the year, we still have so much to learn before we finish Grade 1, so we need to make sure that we come to school each day ready to learn and ready to try our very best! 

Welcome back!!!

I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing break! We are excited to be back at school and finish out our learning for the last few weeks of Grade 1!

The homework for this short week is just to read for 15-20 minutes each night and to complete two Math worksheets that were sent home in your students's blue file today.

Thanks,
Miranda