Supplies & Volunteers

You all are so amazing with the amount of supplies that came in with the students on the first day! We are quite well-stocked with pencils, dry erase markers, post-its, index cards, glue sticks and paper. I also want to thank Mrs. Vroman for sending in treats for our treat box, and Mrs. Povich for the donation of playing cards and Band-aids! Please make sure your child has the red plastic folder from the school store for the Friday communication, as well as the Vocabulary workbook. The 1-inch binder we requested was actually for a writing folder that stays at school, so if your child wants to carry their agenda back and forth to school in a binder, please send in an extra to use for writing. It can be a plain white Avery-type one. I am also looking for old "family-friendly" magazines we can cut up, and asking all parents to start saving the tubes from your paper towels for our upcoming Native American craft project. (can you guess what it is?)
I was thrilled to have so many of you sign-up to volunteer in our classroom this year! You are awesome with your willingness to help, and share the burden. I think we actually have three terrific moms volunteer to be co-room moms, and one of their first duties will be to create a class directory to keep us all in touch. I am also covered on the Fundraising and Reading Parent volunteers- but we still seek an Earth Parent to lead one science lesson per month (plans and materials provided), as well as someone willing to be our Fine Arts parent. (no actual artistic talent required) Even if you have never served in either of these roles, if you could come donate your time once a month to "guest-teach" we would greatly appreciate it! You will receive training on what to teach, and it adds so much to our standard curriculum. If you have any questions before you commit, please let me know. I will need to fill these positions as soon as possible. Be on the lookout for emails from Mrs. Losure, who will be coordinating our "Mystery Readers" this year and will need weekly volunteers to come in and read to our class. Again, I appreciate all you've done to help your childrens' 4th grade year get off to a terrific start!