Celebration!

We have wrapped up our first domain in CKLA for Listening & Knowledge: Fair Tales & Tall Tales. Today we took the assessment, and now we are going to celebrate!!
Tuesday, Sept. 30
Team McPherson & Team McNitt are celebrating with flannels & flapjacks!
OPTIONAL: Students are invited to wear flannels to school OR come dress as a royal.
Mrs. McPherson & I will be slinging flapjacks, for all students to enjoy! Just like in our Paul Bunyan story!

OPEN THROUGH OCTOBER 4!

Click to see spirit wear

Move A Thon

BIG Thanks!

Fairy Tale Royals

Fun way to showcase our learning about fairy tales!
I introduce our royals!

PTO Event

Pencil War Prizes!

to the Schoenlein family for our pencil war prizes this week!!
Our new pencils are looking even better now!

WW Spirit Wear

Westwoods Spirit store is now open!! Use the link below to order your Westwoods gear.
WW Spirit Wear

All orders need to be placed by Friday, Sept. 26

Make your orders!

Classroom Wish List

 I know there were a lot of people at open house asking about what we need in the classroom. The generosity of our community & PTO has supplied your students with their classroom supplies.

Please take a look at our classroom wishlist from Amazon if you are considering any further donations.
Thank you in advance!
Team McNitt Classroom Wishlist
The link is also on the side of our blog

Scholastic Book Order

Our FIRST Scholastic Book Club Magazine order for the month of September went home on Thursday! Please visit clubs.scholastic.com Please have all orders placed by Tuesday, Sept. 16

Reminder!

Today we dove into our new CKLA curriculum!

Skills this unit focuses on reviewing various spellings, with an emphasis on consonant sounds, high-frequency Tricky Words (words with spellings that do not play by the code rules), and one- and two-syllable words. 
Some examples and overall learning outcomes are: review letter-sound correspondences, read and write words with short vowel sounds, read and spell Tricky Words, read and write one- and two-syllable words, read and spell words with suffixes ‒ing and ‒ed, read, write, and pronounce words with past tense suffix ‒ed (pronounced three different ways), spell grade-level words correctly, and write sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation

Listening/Knowledge introduces four diverse fairy tales: “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “The Magic Pitcher.” While reading these stories, students consider characteristic elements of fairy tales and the problems characters face, as well as the lessons each story conveys.
Students then turn to the American frontier and delve into tall tales about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Casey Jones. In doing so, they learn about the characteristics of tall tales, such as the use of exaggeration and larger-than-life characters.

Wahoo to a First Week!!

What a fun first week we had!!
Excited for another one to come!!

Currently in Math

This came home in folders today. No need to return. Just an information sheet.

Friday Early Release

Birthday Fun Reminders!

Birthdays are always fun to celebrate! TREATS

If your child brings in a treat for their special day

* It does need to be prepackaged

* Please NO cupcakes or cake INVITES

Birthday party invites need to be arranged outside of school. Unless everyone is being invited.

Thanks for understanding!

First Day Success!!

THAT WE DID!! What a fun day!

Coming Home!

Students brought home a home to school communicator today in their backpack.
These go back and forth from home to school and school to home each and every day. Please help your child to build a routine to ensure their communicator gets emptied each night and returned to school each morning. 

Inside each communicator you will find information from school that requires your attention.
Please read the directions stapled to the front of the below picture. Both pages are for you to look over and read with your child. Please send back after both are signed. Thank you!

These can stay at home. Important information sheet regarding WW & an athletic calendar for LEAP activities.

Our classroom magnet helps for quick reference to our blog (QR Code), phone # & email address. Keep this at home in a place to find when you need me!