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Parker Press
January 19,2014

Big Day!!
Tomorrow is the big day! Our class will be on 7&4 News between 6:30 and 7:00 am as a salute to teachers and classrooms!

Student Council
Our classroom is in need of a student council representative. If you are interested please let me know. They meet at 8:00am on Tuesday Mornings. Interested students just need to write me a quick note saying that they would like to do it and can be there on time.

Pet Show
We have once again filled our marble jar. The writers of room 17 were given the task of brainstorming ideas for a marble jar privilege. They were then responsible for writing a persuasive letter to me in regards to what they would like to have for a marble jar privilege and why . The writers have spoken and they have chosen a “Pet Show”. Before this can occur, I need a little feedback from the families. Please fill out and send back the questionnaire at the bottom of this page. I will take the comments into careful consideration before planning the event. This has been approved by our administration and is a constant buzz of conversation in our classroom.
***Students have decided that they would share a stuffed animal if they did not have a pet.

Pet Show
Student Name _______________________ Parent Name__________________________
Any pet allergies?? _____________________________________________________
Family’s Pet __________________ Name _________________________________
Would you be willing to bring in said pet? _________
Which would work best for you? Am or pm
___Mon ____ Tues ___Wed ___ Thurs ___Fri

Book Bag
Book bags have been traveling back and forth for about a week now. Thank you to the families that are reading, logging, and returning those books to school. As a reminder:
Bags come home on Monday with about 8 books.
Students read and record books each night. Be sure to have them mark whether it was a good fit or not and who they read to.
Please indicate whether your child was able to retell the information or story that they read.
Return the book bag including the books to school on the following Monday along with the completed book log for the week.
Reader returning their book bag each week will be earning a book of their choice to add to their at home library!
Happy Reading!!
Spelling
Please remember that we have an account on Spelling City (www.spellingcity.com or the Spelling City app). The login is GESroom17.

Persuasive Writing
Please keep an eye out for persuasive letters coming home in your student’s mail. We would appreciate it if you could find the time to write them a response letter and send it back for us to use at school.

Communication
Just a reminder that the best way to reach me is through my school email jparker@casdk12.net. If emailing is not handy for you, you may also give me a call at 344-3500 ext 3105.

Snack
Thank you to all of our families that have donated snack this month, we do appreciate it. We are, however, in need of snacks again so please donate a snack if you have not done so for the mother of December already. Please remember no coconut, we have an allergy. A few snack suggestions would be string cheese, yogurts, fruit, pretzels, crackers and cheese, or veggies. Let’s try to keep our snacks healthy! Boost our Brains!!

Pet Show
Students will be responsible for preparing a small “speech” to give about thir pet that includes information about the animal itself as well as what they need to do to take care of it.
Any questions?? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for your response, it is very much appreciated.
Ms. Parker

Book-It
1st graders will bring home a reading list/log each month. This is a log in addition to their winter reading log. The book-it log may be books read to students as well as books that they read. These 20 books a month earn your child lunch in the classroom with the teacher and a Pizza Hut coupon.