Hello Shark and Kangaroo Parents,


Welcome to a new and exciting year. This letter will briefly describe some of the changes that your student’s team is having as well as some of the procedures of our class.


Your students have been divided into three groups: The Kangaroos with Mr. Lucas as their base teacher, the Tiger Sharks with Ms. Pranke as their base teacher and the Great White Sharks with Mr. Walker. We will be rotating the students throughout the day for their classes. Please see your copy of the schedule to learn where your child is during the day.

HOMEWORK

Homework this year will go out each Friday and will be due the following Thursday. Your student’s homework is designed to be a review of skills that they are currently working on or have previously worked on. It is not meant to be challenging, but rather review. It will include enough work for your student to do a portion each night. Please refrain from doing it all at once. This defeats the goals of teaching your student the work habits that we are trying to instill in them.

Reading homework will be sent home daily. Inside the front cover will be a yellow sheet, which will include your students name, pages to be read, date and a place for you to initial when they have completed the assignment. Please return these books everyday. There will also be a bag with vocabulary words for your student to review. Please have them spell the words, practice writing them and define them. Your student can also cut these words out and play matching games with them. These words can be kept at home.

If your student is gone the day homework is sent out you can pick up extras at the front lobby in the Kangaroo and Shark homework bins.

SCIENCE AND THEME

For the first month of Science and Theme we will be working on our All About Me bags. These bags should contain five or six items that tell something about your student. The class will use these bags to write sentences and stories about each student. Please bring these bags to Mr. Lucas’s room ASAP.

Your student also needs to bring in a stuffed bear/animal to school. We will use these bears for writing and math activities (circumference, length, weight, etc…). Please try to have both of these items in quickly as we need these for our lessons.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask any of us.


Have a great week,

Mr. Lucas, Ms, Pranke and Mr. Walker