Happy Friday!

Thank you to those parents who are viewing the blog. This is a great way for us to communicate! Once a month I will make it a homework assignment to respond with a comment on the blog with your child. Please be checking the blog so you know what is going on in our classroom. Next week we will start an internet math program called Xtra Math. Xtra Math will help us practice math facts and improve our speed and accuracy of the facts. Your child will do it 2-3 times a week in the classroom. One math homework nights, I will assign this at home sometimes. I will send home a login and password for you to do at home. Please keep it in a safe spot for the year. I will offer 5 horseshoes to any student/parent who posts on the blog over the weekend! :) Please comment on our blog!
Water Bottles are coming home today for the Mustang March next week. Please fill the water bottle up with water before school Monday and bring it every day to the March. Please have your child wear/bring tennis shoes every day next week. We will be marching every day next week from 12:05-1:05 if you would like to come volunteer.  Friday is from 1:15-1:45. Thank you to those of you who already volunteered to be here.
Thank you for coming in this week to volunteer. We have several beginning of the year tasks to be completed, and I appreciate your help with completing these in class projects. The volunteer schedule that I emailed will start next week. Please let me know if you have any questions. Next week we will continue with testing for the Appaloosas in the morning from 9:30-10:30. So we will be in the computer lab during this time.
This week we learned about the Golden Rule and what it means to us. We all had different ways of understanding this very important character tool. "Do unto others as you wish them to do to you." We talked about treating others the way you want to be treated. This is difficult for some to understand. We hope you can have a discussion with your child about what that means to your family. It is difficult to understand until we've had our feelings hurt, been left out, or been treated poorly by others. We learned from Sister Bear that including others is a very important piece of being a good friend and following the golden rule. Sometimes being real is a hard thing to be.
It was an exciting Friday today! We had our first Horseshoe Catching Day today! Children could cash in their horseshoes to "buy" treasures from the treasure boxes. Thank you to GM23's dad for being our "banker." It really helped us a lot! If your child was not able to participate this time, we encourage them to work extra hard to practice the pillars of good character and homework responsibilities to earn more. The treasures range from 5 horseshoes to 50 to purchase. Great job students!!!
Have a fantastic weekend!
:) Mrs. Montes