Sept 27-Oct. 1

Hi Everyone!

I hope everyone is still exercising and recording their times!  There are GOOD prizes to win.

Last week we learned all about Mother Goose Rhymes.  Please continue reading and saying them with your child.  Once a child learns how to rhyme, their reading improves.  The pictures below are of our Jack Be Nimble day.  We made our own candlesticks and practiced jumping over them.  These kids are so creative.  They make me laugh everyday.

This week we will be reading “The Chick & the Duckling”.  Our spelling words will be: it, is, for, but, not.  We will also be learning about Cowboys and their contribution to our valley.  Special Person this week will be Malakia.  Thanks Javen for doing such a great job!

Friday we have a Fieldtrip to Greer.  If you haven’t done so, please return your permission slips to me by Wednesday so your child can go!  I need 3 more volunteers to help with kids if anyone would like to do so.

Wednesday we are having a night with parents, Reading Under The Stars.  This will be a school wide event that you can come and enjoy an evening with your child.

Next week I will be starting Parent Teacher conferences, so please check backpacks for your assigned time and date. 

We are still accepting donations for our soldier Eric.  We will be sending him a package on the 14^th of October.  Book orders are due that day also!

Thanks again for all you do.  I appreciate those of you who are always willing to help out!

Sept. 20-24

Hi Everyone,

Last week we had such a good time learning all about our senses.  We were mini scientists and looked at items under microscopes, a magnifying glass, we used our sense of smell to determine what scent was in different “smelly” bags, etc.  It was so much fun!

This week we are reading a book called “What’s In This Box”.  If you have the book “My Five Senses” at your house still could you please send it back so I will have enough for next year? Thanks.  We will also be studying some of the great “Mother Goose Rhymes”.  Rhyming is a big part of reading.

We will continue with our same spelling words:  one, two, three, four, five.  These words were difficult and we need another week of practice.  If your child earned 100% on last weeks spelling test then they don’t have to take the test this week.

Our special person last week was Dallon, and he did a great job!  This week we are excited to hear from Javen.

We have adopted Eric McCoy as a soldier.  Eric is from Round Valley and is now in Afghanistan serving in the Marine Corps.  Thank you for your donations for those of you who sent items in.  We look forward to any more!

Have a great week,

Mrs. Hamblin

Sept. 13-17

Hi Everyone,

We had a great week last week learning all about farm animals, number words and heroes.

This week we will be learning all about our 5 senses. We will really be testing those senses this week by painting with Kool-Aid, guessing different sounds, playing blindfold games, smelling the good and bad…etc. It’s going to be a great week!

Our new spelling words are: one, two, three, four, five. These words will be a challenge, so please study nightly!

We enjoyed listening to Murphy as our Special Person last week and look forward to hearing from Dallon this week.

Last week we wrote to Eric McCoy, a Marine from our town who has been deployed to Afghanistan. We are going to continue writing to him and occasionally will send him care packages. Please donate non-perishable items (wrapped candy, bathing items, jerky, etc.) if you would like to assist in this. He would sure appreciate it! There are several others serving from our area that would benefit from care packages, if everyone would like to we could adopt a few more soldiers. Hope to hear you comments on this.

Please keep exercising for our competition! I know we can win this one. Remember the prizes are awesome. The Wellness Coalition has gone all out!

We could also use snacks…we are running low. Thanks for all you do, you are awesome parents!

September 7-10

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all had a wonderful extra long weekend!

This week we will be reading a fun counting book called “One Red Rooster”. Our new spelling words will be: like, the, and, is, can. I know we are repeating spelling words, but we need the practice!

This week we will be learning about heroes since Saturday is September 11th. If anyone has any Hero stories that are kid appropriate that they would like to share, please do.

Thank you to Tucker and Derek’s mom’s for helping us with our centers last Friday. We had fun making applesauce and apple stamping. I appreciate all of you and the help you so willingly give.

Please continue to read nightly with your child and study those spelling words!



Have a great week,
Mrs. Hamblin