Update

My friends are all really adjusting nicely to school.  We continue to review the class rules and we are especially working on listening to the teacher and keeping our hands and feet to ourselves.  I have posted a link to our rules on Mrs. White's web page on the Mary L. Tracy website for you to reference and even to review with your child. 

We are starting to talk about the color yellow and the letter B, so yesterday I brought in  some bananas for snack. I felt it would be an appropriate change from our snack offering of crackers, goldfish and pretzels.  They were a huge hit!  I will continue to bring in different fruits (hopefully once a week) and we will talk about healthy snacks and provide opportunities for students to try new foods. 

On a separate note, I am looking for a room parent.  Cindy Visnic kindly offered to be one and I would like to have one more to help with Art Goes to School, class parties and any field trips we may have.  Please contact me if you are interested.  

Mrs. Murray was our first Mystery Reader  last week.  She read us a book about the Pledge of Allegiance.  We have another one scheduled for Friday.  I wonder who it will be!

**Don't forget picture day is Thursday September 20th.** 

What's up?

A few reminders:

• If you haven't already sent in a change of clothes for your child, please do so ASAP.
• Please, please send a family picture in for our family tree.  If it's easier to send in a picture of Mom and Dad and a separate picture of the kids - that's okay too!
• Please be timely in drop-off and pick-up of students.  I know it's hard, but we have a limited period of time between AM and PM classes and several staff members that need to be relieved so they can go to lunch.  
• Sneakers are the best footwear for the playground.
• Thank you for your interest in being a mystery reader, I will be making a schedule soon:)

Here is what we've been up to the past couple weeks of school....

We are getting to know each other, learning classroom routines and we've been having LOTS of fun on the MLT playground!  We had our first fire drill of the year (and it was kind of a long one too).  The students were great!  We did the Hokey Pokey with Elmo.  We celebrated a friend's birthday!  We are using a lot of Red materials and working on finding our name AND we're going to be talking more about the alphabet starting with the letter A.    Thank you for sharing your child with us!