Finn Jollands is 3 weeks old
April 23, 2007
Look at beautiful Finn and Mama Jollands :-)
We hope to visit the students late in the last week of school after 1 pm. 
April 23, 2007
Look at beautiful Finn and Mama Jollands :-)
We hope to visit the students late in the last week of school after 1 pm.
April 9, 2007
BABY GIRL JOLLANDS HAS ARRIVED - MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007 - FINNLY LANE JOLLANDS
As you already know, Lisa Coburn and I will be finishing the year with your children. There are only 7 weeks left this year. The rules, procedures, and expectations will not change for your children.
The week of April 16 will be the CRCT. Please read aloud to your children every night. Please chat with your children every night. These are the same great parenting skills you used before your children ever entered school, and they are still the skills your children need from you even though they may know how to read to themselves.
Ms. S
WHAT A GREAT FUN-RUN EVENT!!!
It's another busy week for the JACKALOPES ...
CALENDAR for 3/19-23:
Every day ... 1st grade practices at 8:00 for the play performance on Friday, 3/23, at 8:30 in the Cafe
TUESDAY - Volunteer Tea/Luncheon - hope you have RSVP'd
WEDNESDAY - REPORT CARDS GO HOME
Buster the Bus visits 1st grade
THURSDAY - Spelling Test
FRIDAY - 8:30 play performance in Cafe by 1st grade
FUTURE EVENTS ON THE CALENDAR
3/27 - 2ND GRADE: Japan Day - read individual homeroom notices regarding this event
3/30 - 1ST GRADE: High Touch/High Tech-Magnets
3/31 - SPRING BREAK begins at dismissal
APRIL 16-20 - CRCT TESTING - be in attendance and on time
CRCT NEWS FOR YOU TO USE:
Each homeroom teacher sent home your child's log-in number for you to be reviewing/practicing with your child. Check the web site http://www.georgiaoas.org
MATH: money, addition/subtraction, lining up numbers and decimals to correctly add and subtract, multiplication facts
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS: continue with parts of speech, reading comprehension, and writing in the form of responding to literature
SS/SC/H: will depend upon the grade of your child
PARENTS: you are encouraged to read the same books at home that your child's homeroom class is reading. You are, also, encouraged to participate in the same projects that your child's homeroom class is doing with those books. We are unable to cover the books and projects in our class due to our diversity. Please follow your child's homeroom teacher's newsletters and blog sites for information regarding the different books and projects.
MY LAST SCHEDULED DAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 30. BABY JOLLANDS WILL SOON ARRIVE. I WILL SOON INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUPPLY TEACHER WHO WILL FILL IN FOR ME WHILE I AM ON MY 6-WEEKS' MATERNITY LEAVE.
March 5-9, 2007
The JACKALOPES have 16 students and 2 teachers on roll now. It's a tall order to teach to each student's strengths and weaknesses. We very much need your at-home assistance. We have a few suggestions that we hope will help you at home with your child's academic success.
*REMOVE electronic gaming devices and TVs from your child's bedroom. These items need to be limited to weekend viewing. The internet gaming sites are becoming very dangerous places for predators anyway. These devices should be in a public place in your home. Please read page 4 of the March 2007 issue of The Creek Chronicle for more responsible uses of these devices.
* READ every night to your child, even if it's just for 15 minutes. Your child needs to see/hear you do what s/he is expected to do at school. Did you know that Friday, March 2, 2007 was the 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss? ? What a great author to read with your child each night!!
* SIT down for dinner together. Help model table manners. Have casual conversations with your child and other family members sitting around the table.
* Give your child CHORES. Doing simple tasks around your home will help your child feel like an important part of the family. Pick your battles carefully. Your child may not do it as you would, but perfection is not the object here. Family interaction is the object.
* PLAY with your child. With the game devices and TVs limited to the weekend, you will have them so BORED. Go outside together. Play hopscotch, kick-the-can, I-spy with the clouds. Help your child play board games, money games with your loose change, make up stories together, play dot-to-dot games, tic-tac-toe games, I-spy games with newspapers/magazines to find letters, words, or numbers studied in class.
* Read page 7 of the March, 2007 issue of The Creek Chronicle. The article, GET MOVING, gives some excellent ideas for you and your child to do together. These ideas will help your child in our class.
* Read page 8 of the same Chronicle, Invisible Disabilities. The listed examples and descriptions are many of our children. These disabilities, plus others, are just some of the reasons we need your help in the after-school hours to continue your child's learning.
* CRCT dates are April 16 - 25. "To get students to think for themselves as they read, [we] have to stop thinking for them." (Maren Aukerman in the October 2006 issue of the EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP professional magazine. Please help us help your child by practicing this technique at home.
* Give clear/simple ORAL DIRECTIONS to your child. Repeat one time. Have your child those directions back to you and then do them as you have directed. Our students need to practice their listening skills. When you repeatedly tell your child to do something at home, your child expects us to do that at school. We do not have time to continually repeat directions. Good listening skills will transfer over into good reading and comprehension skills.
NOW, FOR OUR WEEK AHEAD!
MATH - money, money, money (1-2 grades), and multiplication (3rd grade). Practice these skills nightly with your child.
LANGUAGE ARTS - Reading/Writing/Spelling skills will, as always, be used in across-the-curriculum activities. PARENTS, please practice at home. If you watch a 30-minute show together, have your child write a summary of the show. Have your child tell you how the ending could have been different and why. Watch a news story together and ask a few comprehension questions orally.
SOCIAL STUDIES - 2nd grade - Jamestown - talk with your child about what a fort is, how Jamestown can be compared to our community today, and the importance of Jamestown to our country's history. These are discussions we will have in class, as well.
HEALTH - 3rd grade - Preventing Disease - review terms and noninfectious diseases with your child.
SPECIALS - check your child's individual homeroom teacher's schedule for these activities.
CRCT - use those packets I sent home last Monday with your "captive audience."
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
LIBRARY - every Friday - remember to return your books or to pay for them
EARLY RELEASE DAY - Mar 7 - students go home at 12:20 or to ASP
3rd GRADE FIELDTRIP - Mar 8 - Weinman Mineral Museum
2nd GRADE FIELDTRIP - Mar 13 - Atlanta Botanical Gardens
FUN RUN - Mar 18 - have fun and support the runners
VOLUNTEER LUNCHEON - Mar 20 - invitations went home with your child last week
1st GRADE PLAY - Mar 23 - 8:30am - more information to come
SPRING BREAK - April 2-6
RELAY FOR LIFE - May 11-12 - come out for this fun and worthwhile fundraising event. Ms. S will be working at the Walton High School camp site all night. We all know someone who has been touched by this terrible disease.
The Jackalopes have had another busy week of learning.
Third grade had 2 fieldtrips. We definitely want to hear all about them. Be prepared to write or speak about your experiences to the Cobb Civic Center and the Capitol. :-)
Second grade began work on their informational piece on Astronomy. Your children have already taken home the order forms/envelopes for the Class Books that will contain these writings.
First grade has the American Symbols displayed in the hall for you to see. The students have worked very hard on this Social Studies lesson.
Now, for our week ahead, hold onto your hat. :-)
MATH - money, money, money - PARENTS, please practice at home. You have so many real-life opportunities at your disposal to help your children learn this life-long skill. 3rd grade is also learning multiplication (short-cut addition). Have your children show you what they are learning. Math will be with them forever.
LANGUAGE ARTS - Reading/Writing/Spelling skills will, as always, be used in across-the-curriculum materials. PARENTS, please practice at home. Give your child something to read, silently or aloud, then ask a few comprehension questions. Have your child write a letter to a relative or a friend. Have your child read and write something every day; after all, practice makes perfect. :-)
SOCIAL STUDIES - 2nd grade - Jamestown - did you know this year is Jamestown's 400th birthday? This unit will include many across-the-curriculum activities. PARENTS, ask your children about this historically important community.
- 3rd grade - Health - Preventing Disease - WOW, what a timely topic for discussion at home, with all the colds and flus going around! We will include activities of non-infectious deseases, like asthma. Our metro area is one of the highest ranking areas in the nation for asthma.
SPECIALS - check your child's individual homeroom teacher's schedule for these.
CRCT - watch your child's folders for information that you can use to reinforce skills that will be tested. We have been learning and practicing so very much this year. When you feel there isn't enough time for everything during the week, remember the weekend. You can have "captive audience" time with your child. :-) Playing/cooking/cleaning/shopping/chatting all provide relaxing opportunities for you and your child to be together. Have fun!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS -
LIBRARY - every Friday
PICTURE DAY - 3rd: Feb 27 (Tuesday); 1st/2nd: Feb 28 (Wednesday); group and individual prepaid
"NUTRITION MAGICIAN" - Feb 27 (Tuesday)
FAMOUS AMERICANS - 5th grade reception, so we will eat sack lunches in our rooms
EARLY RELEASE DAY - Mar 7 (Wednesday week); school is over at 12:20
BOTANICAL GARDENS FIELDTRIP 2nd grade - Mar 13 (Tuesday)
FUN RUN - Mar 18 (Saturday) - or just come have fun without running
VOLUNTEER LUNCHEON - Mar 20 (Tuesday) - more info to come
1st GRADE PLAY - Mar 23 (Friday)
Oh, yes; baby Jollands is rapidly growing!
Dear Students and Parents,
I hope find this a useful site. Please remember that I am new at this form of communication. This will be a work-in-progress with adjustments as necessary.
I hope to inform you of news in our room, as well as news in each of our homeroom grades. In the far future, I will scan in photos and worksheets for our class.
Jackalopes this week:
SPELLING - no new list; review of previous lists
LANGUAGE ARTS - more letter writing that will use our grammar, spelling, mechanics and vocabulary skills
MATH - money and measuring
SS/S/H - Jamestown
READING - comprehension skills will be used in across-the-curriculum activities
3rd GRADE (Blaeser) NEWS:
Thurs 2/22 - Performing Arts at Cobb Civic Center
Fri 2/23 - Visit the GA Capitol
Mon 2/26 - Guest Performer - Nutrition Magician at 9am
Tue 2/27 - Picture Day
2nd GRADE (Griffee, Hosey, Lamberth, Lively) NEWS:
Tue 2/27 - Guest Performer - Nutrition Magician at 8am
Wed 2/28 - Picture Day
Tue 3/13 - Visit the Atlanta Botanical Gardens (Have you returned your form and envelope?)
1st GRADE (Aronson, Brendel, Clayton, Welch, Yarnot) NEWS:
Tue 2/27 - Guest Performer - Nutrition Magician at 8am
Wed 2/28 - Picture Day
I will begin posting each weekend. Please click on the spinning Earth symbol beside my name in the school's web page. Check back Sunday evening for next week's news. I hope to add photos to this blog soon. Have a fun and restful L-O-N-G weekend. See you Wednesday, 2/21. Mrs. Jollands :-)
Parents please remember that Art Day is coming up on February 2nd. Send in a t-shirt that matches their grade level by January 30th. Please remember to have your student wear their grade level shirt. 1st = dark brown, 2nd = dark green, 3rd = ?
