September 7

This is your first official Tuesday note for this year. It contains some important information and a few reminders. It is online as well as on paper. Most future notes will be online only, so if for any reason you would prefer a paper copy to checking the blog, please let Mrs. Johnson know ASAP. Also, you don't need to keep checking the blog if you sign up for email notification. It sometimes can take up to 24 hours, tho, from the time I publish something new until the time you get the email.

There is a singing schedule for fourth grade attached to this sheet. Please keep it home and handy. Also take out all the papers in this folder and keep those at home.

There is another field trip coming. On Monday October 25 our class is going to the Milwaukee Public Museum for the day. We are going with third grade, and we are taking a bus. If you would like to go, there is a sign up sheet in the Parent Note Tray at school. You can do it yourself, or you can email or call me to do it for you. Depending on how many people come, some of you might have to drive instead of riding the bus. The cost will be $4 per person and another $4 to ride the bus. No money will be collected from you until about 2 weeks before we go, but I do need to get an accurate count of how many plan to attend. This field trip was not out at registration day. The one you signed up for there was in December.

We will not be starting spelling until next week. We took a pretest last week, tho, to get an idea of how much we remember.

Whenever your child is absent, you need to send a note of excuse. State law requires a piece of paper, so even if you call the school (which we do appreciate) or tell us in person, we still need the note. The notes we get BEFORE an absence are acceptable also.

Please try to schedule appointments outside of school whenever possible, but if it is ever necessary to schedule appointments during school time, Tuesdays after 2:30 would work the best. Also, please check the school calendar for updates on changes. The dates for Terra Nova testing have been changed.

The blog word for this week is "blog". Write it in your assignment notebook on the day that would be Friday, which is when I will check it and give you your sticker. The blog word will NOT appear on the paper copy that comes home on Tuesday.