Ms. Levangie's Letter Home

Welcome Back Families!

(And Welcome New Families!)

August 25, 2014

Dear Families,

Wow!  It’s that time of year already.  It promises to be a new, adventurous year with your child.  I am honored to take on the job of providing a loving, safe, enriching and stimulating classroom for your child.  Thank you for your support in advance. 

I will be setting the tone and my expectations for our classroom community during the coming weeks of school.  I am keeping our class together in our room for the first week and we will begin to transition to math the second week of school.  This way, we can roll out our social/emotional curriculum together. We’ll create classroom rules, discuss our “hopes and dreams” for the coming year and get outside to play games often.  The children enjoy taking ownership of their classroom and it allows me some time to take the pulse of your child and work to meet him/her where she/he is at upon returning to school this year. 

The Home/School folder will be sent home on Fridays or sooner if there are time sensitive notices that need to come back.  Today we had lots to send home.  Included in the folder is the information about the ECO program.  Mrs. Raynor and I will be rotating every other Tuesday with Alex Rob in our outdoor classroom.  Our class will start on September 23.  If you would like to help out on Tuesdays please fill it out and send it back.  I listed the specials below.  We are still looking for a Spanish teacher.  I will send home a magnet with the specials for your refrigerator soon.  We do have PE everyday and some days twice a day so if your child would like to leave his/her sneakers here at school that may be helpful.

Specials:

Monday- Music, PE

Tuesday-Music, PE (ECO every other Tuesday 1-3)

Wednesday- Health or Guidance

Thursday-Library/Technology

Friday-Art

If I send the Home/School folder home please empty it out and try to send it back the next day.  I will be sending bookbags home with “just right” books toward the end of September/beginning of October for your child to read at home.  Eventually second graders may have some writing to do in response to their reading.  I don’t send a lot of reading “homework” but will provide books from the classroom for your child to read at home.  The most important homework for reading, as you know, is to read at home every night and enjoy books.  I will send more information about this when the reading bag starts to come home.

If there is anything you would like me to know about your child at any time please call me at school at 454-7777, ext. 311.  I prefer talking on the phone, notes from home or talking with you in person.  Mrs. Raynor and I will be sharing a First/Second grade blog to notify you of special events and provide some great photos of the students in action.  I hope to send a Friday letter every week or every other week with updates from our classroom.

Here’s to a wonderful year with you and your child!  This week is going to be a hot one so you may want to send your child with a water bottle and possibly some sunblock or a hat.

Thanks again. 

Sincerely,

Lisa Levangie

“Ms. Levangie”