Dear Families,
What a wonderful week!  The children enjoyed exploring CMOST very much and contributed with interest to the discussion about animal homes.  They were excited about touching a very beautiful colorful snake (most of them), and a 45 year old Eastern Box Turtle.  The children also had fun watching CMOST newest Dome show “Zula Patrol [...]

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Dear Families,
The children are looking forward to our field trip on October 18 at the Children’s Museum. We will leave school by 8:45 to arrive at the museum by 9:00am. So please arrive at the school by at least 8:40. The program we will be attending is called Where Do You Call Home [...]

Dear Families,
Friday morning the children were very excited to notice that our chrysalis was changing color from bright green to brown, and by late afternoon we could see colors resembling a butterfly.  I was disappointed that the children were not going to witness the birth of the butterfly, but Saturday morning around 7:30 a.m. I [...]

Dear Families,
I enjoyed spending time with several of you Tuesday evening at Meet the Teachers Night. I would like to remind you to please sign up for a listening conference so you can tell me all about your child. I would like to get them done during October. I can be available [...]

Dear Families,
We ended the week last Friday meeting our buddies.  The children were assigned buddies from the middle school, and enjoyed spending some time together reading and getting to know each other.  Also we had a wonderful time Friday afternoon in the butterfly garden looking for monarch caterpillars.  We checked the milkweed plants very carefully [...]

I am keeping this blog as an example of an elementary school blog for the faculty at my daughter’s school.
To date it has represented the entirety of Lynn’s kindergarten 2006-2007 year.
I intend to continue this blog with Liliana’s K-1 year 2007-2008 in which my daughter was in first grade.
I will change the blog design to [...]