Newsletter 9-11-15

Mueller Moments

1st Grade * Bauer Elementary * Mrs. Holly Mueller * hmueller@hpseagles.net

September 11, 2015

What a wonderful first week of school we have had! I feel so blessed to have been chosen to be your child’s teacher. This is truly a special group of kids, and I am excited to think of the learning we will have together in the year ahead. Please see below for a few important notes and updates.

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Thank you for all of the supplies you have been donating to our classroom. They are appreciated! If you have not sent in your white 1” binder yet, please do so in the next week. I need to have the forms that were sent home at open house returned if you have not done so yet.

Please remember to label all items such as lunch boxes, sweatshirts, water bottles, etc. We have already had a few items missing, as well as items found with no name. 

Coming Up: 

Our school Walk-a-thon is coming up on Friday, September 25. Notes went home in folders yesterday.

Picture Day is scheduled for Wednesday, September 23. Pictures notes are in folders today. 

Reading: We will be starting our first unit for reading workshop next week. There is nothing like watching readers grow in 1st grade! This week we started reading “The Chocolate Touch” for our read aloud chapter book. Ask your child to share what it is about with you. 

Writing: This week we completed our first On Demand writing assessment. Students wrote about something they did on summer vacation. We also completed a writing sample of our favorite things for our Time Capsules (what we used our Pringles cans for!). 

Math: We began unit one this week. This is a review of making 10 concepts taught in kindergarten. Thank you for returning your child’s first homework. A reminder that homework will come home every Tuesday and Thursday, and is due the next day.

Handwriting: This week we began work in our Handwriting Without Tears books. We will hit handwriting hard in September and October before we formally begin spelling instruction. Your child may have come home singing the song, “Where Do You Start Your Letters?” (The answer: at the top!)

Enjoy the fall weekend ahead!

~ Holly R. Mueller