Sunday, September 1, 2013

Mystery Readers have arrived!

We just wanted to take a small moment and thank all of the Mystery Readers who came to our rooms to read on Friday.  Our Mystery Readers are such an important part of our reading curriculum and they make reading so much fun for our young readers.  It always amazes us how hard our parent readers work to make this time exciting and meaningful for the students.  We appreciate all you do to support Peine Ridge and us as teachers.  We are looking forward to many more parents reading in our classrooms this year.  Please make sure you have filled out your Volunteer information and have had your criminal record check done so you can spend time in the classroom.  If you have any questions just contact Mrs. Reese or Mrs. Force in the office.  They can tell you if all of your paper work has cleared. 

We are almost ready for Room Parents, Copy Parents and other Parent Volunteers to start.  We will be contacting you soon if you offered to help.  Believe it or not party time will be here before you know it and we would love to have some parent volunteers put together these classroom celebrations.  The students are so excited to see their parents and families spend these special times with them during the school year.  Every one of the teachers appreciate your time, expertise and willingness to help with these projects! 

Our Field Trip to Pumpkins Galore will be coming up in October and we will send more information to you as soon as we have the final conformation.  We have already done our Bus Safety lesson (on the actual buses) with the children to get them ready for this great adventure.

We leave you with a picture of one of our parent volunteers acting as a Mystery Reader in Ms. Arrendale's class.  He read from the Frog and Toad book and used great character voices (complete with an English accent for both Frog and Toad).  We are learning how reading is an adventure and all of our Mystery Readers made reading a special adventure for the students on Friday.  Enjoy the rest of your Labor Day Weekend, stay cool, and as always, read at least 20 minutes a day with your child.  We will see all the students again on Wednesday.  Make sure you go through the new Kindergarten Binder that came home with your child on Friday while on break.