Happy Friday!
I am writing from a quiet classroom today! The school has such a different vibe when it's just us teachers here. I love time with the kids; I love time alone in my happy place. :)
Important Information about Remind! PLEASE READ!
If Verizon is your cell phone carrier (like me), there are some changes coming to the Remind text messaging service on January 28th. Please read this message from Remind to see how you may be affected, and what you can do to ensure you keep getting your Remind messages and videos from me! I am copying and pasting the email I received from Remind:
"Recently, we learned that Verizon will be charging Remind a new fee that makes it impossible for us to continue supporting free text messaging for anyone who has Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier. Please read on for all the important details—we promise to keep this as short as we can.
If you have Verizon, please be sure you have the Remind app downloaded, and that you have notifications turned on so you will continue to receive my messages and videos through the Remind app. Thank you!
Homework Next Week:
I did not send home paper homework this week due to the shortened week and delay days. I am going to send this week's homework packet next week, so you'll notice it has the dates "January 14 - January 17" at the top. This is okay! It will be due (as normal) next Friday. Please let me know if you have any questions! :)
100th Day of School:
The 100th day of school is coming! Weather permitting, we will mark this special day on Wednesday, February 6th. (If we have more snow days between now and February 6th, we will adjust the date so it aligns with our 100th day.). The 1st grade teachers and I have been busy planning for this fun day! Please see yesterday's Thursday folder for a note inviting students to dress up for our 100th day. Students may dress like a 100-year old boy or girl, or they may make and wear a special "100 item shirt".
Valentine's Day Party:
Mark your calendar...our classroom Valentine's Day party will be Thursday, February 14th at 1:30 pm in our classroom. All families are welcome to attend. The kids will exchange Valentine cards at the party, and I sent home a class roster in yesterday's Thursday folder for those of you wanting to get a start on those. (Shout out to the Type A peeps!) The card exchange is completely voluntary, although historically, the majority of the class participates. If your child brings Valentine cards, please be sure he/she has one for every student in the class. If your child wants to attach a little "something" to his/her Valentine cards, please don't attach candy or food... little items like pencils, erasers, tattoos, stickers are fine. Please watch for more details regarding the party soon!I am writing from a quiet classroom today! The school has such a different vibe when it's just us teachers here. I love time with the kids; I love time alone in my happy place. :)
Important Information about Remind! PLEASE READ!
If Verizon is your cell phone carrier (like me), there are some changes coming to the Remind text messaging service on January 28th. Please read this message from Remind to see how you may be affected, and what you can do to ensure you keep getting your Remind messages and videos from me! I am copying and pasting the email I received from Remind:
"Recently, we learned that Verizon will be charging Remind a new fee that makes it impossible for us to continue supporting free text messaging for anyone who has Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier. Please read on for all the important details—we promise to keep this as short as we can.
What’s happening?
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that our users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network. Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but our efforts to resolve the issue with Verizon haven’t been successful. As a result, the Verizon fee will increase our costs of providing text messaging by 11X—pushing our annual costs into the millions of dollars. This isn’t financially feasible for us to support, and it’s forcing us to end Remind text messaging for everyone who has a wireless plan with Verizon.
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that our users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network. Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but our efforts to resolve the issue with Verizon haven’t been successful. As a result, the Verizon fee will increase our costs of providing text messaging by 11X—pushing our annual costs into the millions of dollars. This isn’t financially feasible for us to support, and it’s forcing us to end Remind text messaging for everyone who has a wireless plan with Verizon.
How will this affect you?
Beginning January 28, 2019, the people in your classes who normally get your Remind messages as texts will no longer receive these messages if they have Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier.
Beginning January 28, 2019, the people in your classes who normally get your Remind messages as texts will no longer receive these messages if they have Verizon Wireless as their phone carrier.
What can you do?
To make sure people in your classes continue receiving your messages, ask them to download the mobile app or enable email notifications—both of which are free of charge. Our team’s also working hard on a solution that allows your classes to continue to use Remind by text, and we’ll share more details with you before January 28."
To make sure people in your classes continue receiving your messages, ask them to download the mobile app or enable email notifications—both of which are free of charge. Our team’s also working hard on a solution that allows your classes to continue to use Remind by text, and we’ll share more details with you before January 28."
Quarter 2 Report Cards:
Second quarter report cards will be issued Friday, January 25th. Report cards will be issued electronically; I will not send home a paper copy. Your child's report card will be available for viewing Friday afternoon in your ParentVue account. If you need assistance logging onto your ParentVue account, please contact Mrs. Sciortino in our school office.Homework Next Week:
I did not send home paper homework this week due to the shortened week and delay days. I am going to send this week's homework packet next week, so you'll notice it has the dates "January 14 - January 17" at the top. This is okay! It will be due (as normal) next Friday. Please let me know if you have any questions! :)
100th Day of School:
The 100th day of school is coming! Weather permitting, we will mark this special day on Wednesday, February 6th. (If we have more snow days between now and February 6th, we will adjust the date so it aligns with our 100th day.). The 1st grade teachers and I have been busy planning for this fun day! Please see yesterday's Thursday folder for a note inviting students to dress up for our 100th day. Students may dress like a 100-year old boy or girl, or they may make and wear a special "100 item shirt".
Valentine's Day Party:
Focus Areas for the Coming Week:
- Reading: We will learn tools for solving and checking hard words. We will ask "does that make sense?", "does that sound right?", "does that look right?" after solving a hard word.
- Writing: We will practice paragraph writing using the Four Square method. We will check our sentences for capital letters, periods, spaces, proper sight word spelling, and proper letter formation.
- Math: We will begin our addition unit, in which we learn strategies for adding 2 numbers. We will learn that addition is a part/part/whole relationship... part+part=whole.
- Science: We will begin our Matter unit. We will explore the 3 states of matter and conduct some matter experiments.
As always, please reach out with questions, comments, or concerns.
Enjoy the weekend! Sunday is our wedding anniversary! Leo and I have been married 23 years. I'm not sure whether to be happy or frightened because it means I'm old!
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