FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!




August 23, 2018
Dear Room 15 Family,

I hope that your child had a fun first day of second grade.  I certainly did!  I trust that your child will have a lot to share with you about the day back at Edna Maguire.  It was certainly full!

Some of the things we did today include;

•went on a guided scavenger hunt of the Edna Maguire campus
•spent time mapping out our classroom
•found our own “attendance magnet”
•talked about our “First Day Feelings”
•enjoyed the first exciting chapter of Poppy
•hosted a guest speaker tell us about one way she uses mistakes to help her get better
•milled about our room a bit as we got to know each other through a musical game

You may want to ask your child about a few of these specifics to get some details.

Please know that you will be provided a lot of information about our classroom at Meet the Teacher Night on Thursday, September 13.  For now, here are just a few things that I wanted to let you know about.

• “Tell Me About Your Child” Mini Check-ins are scheduled for Thursday, August 30.  These are totally optional and just provide some time to let me know anything you’d like to about your child.  Please use the link below to sign up for an optional Tell Me About Your Child mini-conference.  Fitting everyone into one day is a bit of a trick, so let me know if we run out of spaces that work for you.
Feel free to email me and I’ll send you the Sign Up Genius link.

•Meet the Teacher is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, September 13.  Details will come home soon, just save that date for now.

•The ever-popular “First Day Packet” is new-and-improved this year.  You will be receiving ONLY the PTA First Day packet, there is no longer a district First Day packet with forms because…drum roll…the forms are now available to all parents electronically through a system called “School Mint.” All parents should have received an email from School Mint last week asking them to create an account and fill out the typical first day forms (emergency card, walking field trip form, etc.). If you have not received said email, please check your SPAM.  If that doesn’t solve the problem, please direct questions about this to our wonderful Assistant Principal Aubrey O’Connor at aoconnor@mvschools.org



•We will talk about regular second grade homework procedures at Meet the Teacher Night.  Before that, students will have a fun project to work which will be sent home on Tuesday, September 4.  Until then, please help your child continue (or re-establish) his/her nightly reading habit and talk to your child about school.

• I would love to have a group email for our class ready as soon as possible.  If you haven’t done so already, please email me so that I can share a Google Doc with you to collect email addresses.  As soon as I have heard from everyone, I will send out an email to our group.


That’s it for now.  I am excited to see you all at Meet the Teacher Night on Thursday, September 13 (or at a “Tell Me About Your Child” check-in on August 30.  I invite you to contact me whenever you have a question or a concern.

Yours,
Adam

asanchez@mvschools.org

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