Friday Facts!

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope everybody had a great Fall Break.  I have enjoyed hearing all of the many stories of the fun adventures from all of the kids this week!  What a week it has been too!  We filled up our "brownie pan" and earned a popcorn party in class yesterday.  If we receive a compliment from another adult when we are out of the classroom, we earn a brownie.  After 12 compliments, we get to have a fun reward.  We are hard at work already since we have received 2 compliments today!

We have started our writing workshop in the classroom this week.  We are hard at work learning all of the procedures for this new task and the class is doing a great job!  Our goal this week has been to get a picture on the paper with some words that match.  I have told the kids that this can be a difficult job.  We have also talked about what to do when a writer gets stuck on a word they do not know how to spell.  Some strategies we brainstormed about were: using our OG sounds, finger spell the word, say the word slowly and listen for the sounds you can hear, or ask for help as a last resort.  We are keeping our stories in a writers notebook.  At the end of each month, I will send home the stories for you to keep.

During our OG time in class, I have been focusing in on starting to blend words.  This has two purposes.  It teaches the children a strategy to use when reading an unknown word and it also helps children when trying to write.  We will continue to practice this and much more!

Since our conferences are scheduled for next Thursday, I plan on doing a binder check and make goal changes for the children on Monday, November 2nd.  If you could please send in the binders on that date, I would appreciate it!  Thank you so much for all of the hard work that is happening at home.  It is really starting to show in the classroom.  The kids are more and more confident about their reading and writing everyday!

We have a lot of great things happening in the next couple of days!  See below for what is coming up:

CARMEL ELEMENTARY IS SCHOOL OF THE WEEK!

Tune into @FOX59 at 9am Sunday for Colts Playbook with Chuck Pagano on Channel 11.
Carmel Elementary School of the Week...…is scheduled to air this Sunday morning at 9 am on Fox 59’s “Colts Playbook!”

Make sure you all tune in this Sunday to see Carmel Elementary being featured as school of the week. The videotaping was completed during our Fuel up to Play 60 breakfast. We had over 70 students along with family members and staff members join us for breakfast in September. Now we all know how great our breakfast is at CE when we are running late or when we need to eat here every day! Remember we need the fuel up to learn and play!

Monday, October 26:

• Carmel Elementary will be on WishTV8 at 6:40 am with a message to say good morning!  We taped this during our Leadership Convocation.
• Kindergarten Body Safety Program

Wednesday-Friday:

Red Ribbon Week is coming up next week.  We will be celebrating Wednesday, October 28^th-Friday, October 30^th.  Here’s the list of spirit days J

Wednesday, October 28^th:  Officer Broadnax, our school resource officer will be on announcements.

                Spirit Day:  “Staying drug free is no sweat!”-Wear sweats or active wear

Thursday, October 29^th:  “Give Drugs the Boot”-Wear boots to school

Friday, October 30^th:  “Red Out”- Wear red to school


Have a great weekend!