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Unleash your artistic talents through the 2011-­2012 PTA Reflections program! The National PTA believes all children deserve a quality arts education and encourages students to pursue artistic expression through participation in its annual arts Reflections program.

The program offers students the opportunity to create works of art for fun and recognition.

The Reflections deadline for this year is October 7th! Entry forms and Reflections rules are available here or you can download the general rules here. 

Specific Category rules can be downloaded at the following link:  http://ptareflections.org/cs/rules_and_documents

Make sure you complete the Student Entry Form & include it with your entry!  Download 2011_Student Entry Form

For questions or more information, please contact the
Sope Creek PTA Reflections Committee: 
Deb Papenhagen (papenhagendeb@yahoo.com) or
Wendy Walden,(wendywalden@hotmail.com).

Alligator News

• Send in your pictures or your money or any combination of these.
• Get your child's armband for the Octoberfest this Saturday.
• Check out our class pumpkin for the auction created by Seongun's mom. Thank you so much!
• Return the conference note that came home Monday. I want to make it convenient for you!

Keep up the great participation on IXL.  They're doing a great job. The students are doing well with the spelling lists and everyone had their homework in on time Friday morning. Go Alligators!

Math- In addition we're learning  doubles and doubles plus one  and then we'll be on to  fact families. Please review coins at home with your child and have him/her count coins up to 35-50 cents. It is often developmental in nature. We are practicing counting by 2, 5 and by 10s. Please practice at home.

We'll be learning how to take the COGAT at a practice session on Wednesday morning. The test is next week(Wednesday-Friday) and you can help by having your child get a good night's rest, eat a breakfast with some protein, and have a stress-free morning during the 3 days of testing. That is how you can help your child do his personal best.

Social Studies- We're having a great time learning all about our first American hero, Ben Franklin. Please ask your children to tell you some of his inventions or some of his contributions that he made to our country.

 

Alligator News

Math- We've finished our chapter on subtraction and will take our chapter test. I'll send it home as soon as I check them. In chapter 3 we will continue to use addition strategies by adding 1 and 2. We're going to become more fluent on the number line. Please continue to practice basic addition math facts at home. Everyone is doing a great job on IXL at home.

We're finishing our weather unit and making our immersion board. The children are working on a bulletin board that will show all types of weather. When you're at school, please come see what the children created.

Ben Franklin-Over the next 2 weeks we will  be starting the study of Ben Franklin and learning all about his life and the many inventions he contributed to make our lives easier.

Please send in your picture money or return the pictures as soon as you can.

 

 

 

Octoberfest Bake Sale and Armbands

2 Weeks Until Octoberfest!

Want to help by providing something delicious for our bake sale?  Please download the following form to find out how to help with the bake sale!  Download Octoberfest Bake Sale

Watch for armband order forms to come home with students on September 23rd!  Prices: 

• Students:  $10
• Preschoolers/Alumni/High Schoolers:  $5
• Adults and Children under 2:  FREE!
• Family Maximum:  $25

Questions?

• Bake Sale:  Stacy Baca {stacycarl@comcast.net}
• Armbands:  TongSuk Vignone {tvignone@gmail.com}
• General Questions:  Sandy Sweeney {sandyhsweeney@comcast.net}

Thank you! Everyone sent in their pledges for Boosterthon by September 13th. I will let you know what our total was when they let me know and how much our class will get. The children enjoyed cupcakes today for getting all pledges in on time!

Math- We're continuing our chapter on subtraction. We're learning math patterns to make practicing our facts easier.  I taught them the game Subtraction War and they're having a great time playing and learning their math facts. Ask your children how to play and they can practice addition or subtraction this fun way!

Science- Thank you for sending in all the weather pictures. We had a great time separating the pictures into different types of weather. The posters look great! We'll continue weather through next week. On Friday, I will read Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco. There's a wonderful recipe for thunder cake in the book and Maranda Ganas has agreed to make it for the class. Ask your children on Friday how they enjoyed the cake. If you want the recipe, I can send it home to you. Thanks in advance to Maranda for making the cake for us!

Writing-We're working on memories and will be writing about something that made us smile and something that made us sad. We're making sure we have capitals at the beginning of our sentences, periods at the end and spaces between words. We have some great writers in our class!

 

Octoberfest Coming-Sign Up to Volunteer

OCTOBERFEST – 3 weeks to go!

You don’t want to miss this year’s awesome inflatables and rides at Octoberfest!! New this year is the Blazing Mechanical Bull! Come try your hand at hanging on! Back again is the Terrific Titanic Slide, Mutiny on the Bouncer, the Ultimate Obstacle Challenge, Pirate 5-in-1 and the Justice League Double Challenge! Enjoy the train ride, lots of games and an all-time favorite, the Spider Jump!

Parents! We are ready to schedule volunteers to help make Octoberfest a great day! We need your help! Please see the link below to view all activities and times where volunteers are needed. We hope to sign up all volunteers via this website without having the Room Reps recruit you from each class. Please find your favorite activity and preferred time to sign up and help us fill these positions ASAP. Octoberfest is a great success because of you! Thank you for your support!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/octoberfest8
 
Questions? Contact Sandy Sweeney at sandyhsweeney@comcast.net.
 
Don’t miss this great family fun event! 
Saturday, October 1st from 2pm – 6pm

Alligator News

Thank you for those of you that have already sent in your Boosterthon pledges. Please continue to send them in when you can. I hope to have all of them back by the 13th. Way to go Alligators!

In Math this week we're starting our chapter on subtraction. We will try to understand a variety of situations where subtraction may apply, including taking away from a set, comparing two sets and determining how many more or less there is in a problem.

IXL information is coming home today. This a math program that PTA purchased for each child to use at home to help master math skills and concepts. This will be part of your child's homework that will start next week. Please read the info and let me know if you have any questions. I am so excited to have this program for the children to use!

Please continue to send in weather pictures for us to use next week in our weather collages. We will be separating them into different types of weather and hanging the posters in the hall for everyone to see. Tomorrow we will be making our tornadoes in a bottle. Please be sure to ask your children what ingredients we used to make them.  

At Open House I was asked if we will be getting the RAZ reading program again this year. The answer is yes and as soon as I get the information about starting it, I will let you know.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

School Supply Drive

Way to go 1^st graders!!!   Congratulations!   You did an amazing job collecting much needed school supplies for Powders Ferry Elementary!  Together, we are making a difference in our community!!

You collected: 

4,176 crayons

339 glue sticks and bottles of glue

1,393 pencils

152 folders 

133 notebooks

10 backpacks

31 packs of markers

26 packs of colored pencils

18 packs of notebook paper

15 packs of pens

4 Kleenex boxes

17 hard and soft binders

50 scissors

9 pencil boxes

34 rulers

283 erasers

13 highlighters

7 packs of index cards

1 pencil sharpener

1 set of plastic dividers

3 flashcards

1 set of Band-Aids

1 soft pencil case

8 dry erase markers

16 pencil grips

3 magnetic clips

4 containers of tape

1 post-its

1 book cover

1 pack of construction paper

Also, special thanks to Ms. Urtheil’s class for writing notes to Powers Ferry and to our volunteers who helped sort all of the supplies – Kat Wilson, Sara O’Dea, Kelli Eversen, and Emily Volin.

Heather McAfee and Carie Buchanan

Community Outreach Committee

Alligator News

The Boosterthon Fun Run is over and the children were amazing! I was so impressed with all the laps they were able to run. Go Alligators! Now comes the time to collect the pledges. Envelopes will come home today or tomorrow to put all your pledges. The due date is September 13th. Our class will receive 10% of all our classroom money that is turned in by that date to spend for your children. Thanks for all your support!!

Thanks for all the school supplies you have donated this week for our sister school. The children will be so happy to receive them!

In science we will continue working on our weather unit. On Friday the children will have a homework assignment for the next week. It is called A Week of Weather and the children will be charting the weather for 7 days. They can use computers, newspapers or television to find out the information to complete the chart. It is due back on Monday, September 12th. Please continue to collect weather pictures for us to use in a collage. Send them in as soon as you can.

In math we will finish our chapter on addition and will take our chapter test, We've talked about how we can add problems vertically or horizontally. We will start our subtraction chapter next week.

 Smile! Picture Day is Tuesday, September 6th.

I hope all of you have a safe and relaxing Labor Day weekend!