SPIRIT WEEK at ALWARD ELEMENTARY!

Next week is HOMECOMING week for Hudsonville Public Schools!  To make the week exciting and fun we will be having a SPIRIT WEEK at Alward Elementary School and dressing in lots of fun ways.  Here are the details for the week:

Monday Sweet Dreams  Day (Comfy day  PJ’s / sweats)

Tuesday:   Taste the Rainbow Day       – Wear your grade’s color!

K-Yellow       1st-Green     2nd-Purple     3rd-Blue     4th-Orange      5th-Pink 

Wednesday: Willy Wonka Hat Day      – Wear your favorite Hat

Thursday:  Now-n-Later Neon Day      – Wear neon colors

Friday:  Eagle Pride is Sweet Day        – Wear your Maize and Blue

We hope you join in the fun!  GO EAGLES!

Here is a link to this week’s newsletter:  lp-k-news-92816  (just in case you misplace the paper copy or are more technology oriented).

READERS…READERS…AND MORE READERS!

This year your child will be bringing home LOTS of emergent readers.  They look like this….

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They are paper booklets that we work on in our classroom as a big group and in small groups with our wonderful parapros (teachers who support learning).

We call these books “JUST RIGHT” books, as they are just right for your child to read to you!

I am hoping that when your child brings home a “Just Right” emergent reader that parents, brothers, sisters, grandmas, grandpas, or whoever may live in your house will allow your child to read it to you.

The more your child practices reading these books the more confident reader he/she will be.  He/she will also learn to read with fluency by rereading the book to many different people, and start to remember the story (comprehension).  You can create a library of these books right in your child’s bedroom so they have easy access to them.  I have done this with my own children.  They LOVE IT!

These books are also packed full of “POPCORN WORDS”.  These are words that “pop up” often in books and they are sight words that we practice reading at school.

If you not saved the first few, don’t worry, there are many more to come.  You can start saving them when you receive the next book.

I hope you and your child enjoy these simple stories and “Happy Reading!”

EARLY RELEASE FRIDAY!

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This Friday will be our first early release day.  Students will be dismissed at 12:15 as the clock shows above!  Students will not be eating lunch at school, but they are welcome to order a “sack lunch” to take to their after school destination.  Your child will need to let me know that morning if they need to order one of these “sack lunches”, so please make sure he/she knows if they need a lunch on Friday.

Students will also only need ONE SNACK on Friday as that is all we will have time to eat.

Thanks for your help in making your child prepared for this early release day!

It’s a New School Year!

We made it through a very HOT first week of school and we are all still smiling!

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We are starting to feel comfortable being here all day every day, but did get a bit tired and crazy by the end of the week!

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I just wanted to remind you that tomorrow is PICTURE DAY!  Everyone will get a picture taken for the year book.  If you would like to order pictures remember to send the envelope back to school tomorrow!  You are also welcome to order online .