Aloha All,
Some housekeeping and news.
• HOMEWORK 20-20-10-10
Homework (Mon-Thu) is always 20 min math, 20 min writing, 10 minutes reading, 10 minutes give-the-adults-a-break 100% independent play.
Sometimes the content of those time frames changes a tad.
Math is the same tonight.
Writing — students are to "free write" about "Beauty and the Beast."
They know they are writing a "rough draft" and are not to ask you "how do I spell ____________" but, rather, to sound the word out for themselves and make their own best letter selections to represent the sounds they hear.
This skill is what young children need to develop if they are to read and write well in the years ahead.
Students have a few photos from the B&B film we watched, so if they're completely stuck you might point to a photo and say, "Who is that?" When they tell you say something like, "What a great sentence. WRITE IT DOWN!" :)
Reading — reading is "free reading" at home.
Ideally students are reading a book they can actually read vs. a book they're just looking at the pictures in.
That said, any book is good and better than no book!
• STUFF FOR PARENTS
We are trying to put homework facing "up" (on the same side as the homework folder snap)...
... and "stuff" for parents facing out the back, like this:
Anything with a BIG star is for you!
Tree House News stories that look complete are for you!
Phonics and handwriting pages are for you!
As are any documents the school wants sent home.
And tonight you'll find....
• LIBRARY CARD APPLICATIONS
11 students have applications in their homework folder which you may or may not need.
We have 1 card from one student in our "library bag."
If your child has a card AND you would like us to hold it for the school year, please send it in tomorrow.
If your child has a card and you'd rather hold onto it and send it in with him/her every Friday that is AOK, just educate your student re. how not to lose the card! (Yes, that has happened, many times!)
IF YOU NEED A CARD — NO MONEY IS REQUIRED!
Your student can get a card tomorrow IF s/he brings in the application form filled out and signed by you.
(If you need to replace a card, there is a $5 fee.)
• 2G SINGERS
Wow. 2G can SING!
We sang our "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." song this morning and the lungs, diaphragms and vocal cords were working nicely!
Then 2G wanted to sing some more.
So we learned (or remembered) "Michael Row Your Boat Ashore."
A few times through and 2G asked to sing it "alone," accompanied by the guitar. (Dr. Cat was not allowed to sing!)
And 2G was awesome!
So much so that at the end of the day we made a video of 2G singing MRBAshore with only the guitar accompaniment!
Stay tuned for that video!
Dr. Cat will be providing music for chapels, and it would seem 2G is determined to lead the singing!
• ADVERTISEMENT: The HNSingers -- a children's singing group -- can always use more voices! 2G students would be welcome.
The HNSingers sing on the 2nd Sunday of every month, Holy Nativity Church's "Family Service."
The next Family Service is Sunday, 09.11.22.
You do not need to be a member of the church or come to any services in between Family Services!
We meet at 8 am in the 2G classroom to go over music, and the service is at 9 am.It's a lot of fun.
• NEW 2G JOB: PHOTOGRAPHER
Today "Photographer" was added to our job list.
Gameela used Dr. Cat's "sport" -- "indestructible" — camera today and took some fun photographs.
We'll see who the Bucket of Randomness chooses tomorrow.
As soon as we have a decent number of photographs, we'll publish them!
• TOMORROW IS TREE HOUSE NEW FRIDAY (& LIBRARY) DAY
We will do our best to have all THNews stories completed here.
This is almost always the case anyways. It just takes a few weeks to "get" the process and the timing requirements of each stage of the process.
• PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES: 09.16.22
Looking ahead to Parent-Teacher Conferences —
I believe they are on Friday, September 16th. (If I'm wrong, someone will correct me!)
We'll have a SignUpGenius sign-up "sheet" available before then.
Dr. Cat is planning to hold these in person, in the 2G classroom.
Zooming is awesome, but enough's enough! : )
He looks forward to shaking your hands and sitting down with you!