Cold weather news

Hello Families,
     Now that cold weather is upon us and students are bringing winter gear to school, there are some reminders to share.  Students should have shoes to change into if they wear their boots to school.  Some parents have their child leave a pair of sneakers at school during the winter months.  Please label your child's winter wear.  We often have several pair of black snow pants in the room and they can get mixed up easily!  Nurse Becky wants all families to know that the school can support your family with winter gear if needed. 
     We have an All School Meeting on Thursday this week and all students are invited to wear their Mary Hogan Hawk t-shirts.  Also, this Friday is Book Character Dress Up Day!  As we continue to celebrate reading this month through the Readathon, this is an event where we get to celebrate some of our favorite characters from books.  Please have your child bring the book to school that has his or her dress up character in it.  Julie Altemose takes a picture of everyone dressed up while holding the book.  I love seeing all the creative ideas that everyone comes up with for Character Dress Up Day!


Mrs. Kravitz was our Mystery Reader this week!


Sorting letters and numbers with a partner.


Making observations about our pumpkin quilt required us to be thinkers....the students noticed interesting patterns and designs in the quilt.

Firefighters, pumpkins and Readathon...oh my!

Hello Families,
     We had a busy, fun filled week with visits from the firefighters, a Fun Run, the Readathon Kick-Off,  Halloween anticipation and pumpkins.  Parent conferences are scheduled for this week.  If you cannot make the scheduled time or you need to reschedule, please call my school phone at 382-1458.  We have an Early Release Day on Wednesday, November 6th.  School will be dismissed around 12:50.  If your child has a different plan for dismissal that day, please send in a note.  Now for some info about the Readathon....
     Everyone brought home the yellow reading log in the red folder last week.  That is where you record your child's daily reading minutes.  Lots of reading counts.....someone reading to your child, listening to a story on a device, your child reading to you....any sort of reading outside of school counts.  It indicates what days on the log to return the log to school so our mighty minute counters can tally up everyone's weekly minutes.  The Kindergarten classes will have Mystery Readers come to our rooms to read to us once a week and we get to add those minutes to the reading logs.  That is a great way to get 100% participation so that we are all celebrating reading!  The money that is pledged to all the readers at Mary Hogan helps to build our classroom book collections and other classroom supplies for units, along with funding field trips and special programs.  Thanks for your support!

 
 




The children were super excited to climb through the fire truck and share what they know about fire safety.  With Halloween on everyone's mind, we worked on a counting and number writing activity called Write Around the Room, experimented with a pumpkin to see if it would sink or float (uncarved, then carved), and drew what Mrs. Schondube should be for Halloween.  Those always make me laugh!