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Acellerated Reading

Remember to remind your child to bring home his/her "AR" book every night.  Every child needs to pass one Acellerated Reading test every week.  You can help this happen by listening to your child read to you.  Along with helping your child's reading improve, you'll have wonderful "together" time.

Notebooks

Your child should be bringing home a blue notebook every night.  Please check behind every divider in the notebook to help your child stay caught up with work.  If there is unfinished work in the notebook it needs to be completed before the next school day.

Tired of hearing "I'm bored" ?

Try playing "Biggest and Smallest" with your child.   Children often pay far closer attention to details than we adults do.  So if you're looking for a way to draw on your child's powers of observation, consider this activity. Instruct your child to conduct a household search for the smllest and largest items in various categories.  Books, for example--have your child scour the house and report on the whereabouts and description of the biggest and smallest books in the house.  Try the same with pots and pans in the kitchen or house plants, to name just two possibilities.  Have fun with this!

Biggest and Smallest

Make a list of things for your kids to look for in the newspaper: a picture of a man wearing glasses, the word "President", the score of a sporting event.  By the time al the items are found, the kids will have scavenged through the entire paper--and probably read a few articles along the way.

Use the News

Important Dates--Mark them on your calendar

We're back in school and working hard.   Our next vacation is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  I'll be sending you notes about it later.

Contact me

Please call me if there is something important you need to tell me.  If something traumatic has happened in your family (even things like the turtle ran away), it can really affect how your child reacts in the classroom.  If I know ahead of time, I can give him/her some added support and attention to make the school day go a little better. Please call the school at   845-5052 and leave the message for me there. IOr you can always email me   :)  at                 abutcher@beaumontusd.k12.ca.us