See the post below for more information.  To be eligible for the First Grade Science/Art Club, the contract below must be filled out and returned to the Q1 office by September 30th.  The first 20 entries will be accepted into the club.

CLICK HERE for a printable PDF version of the CLUB CONTRACT

We will be starting the first session (of two sessions) of our first-grade club in October.  This will be an after-school science and art club.  The club contract will be posted on the blog on Tuesday, September 20th.

Club contracts will need to be turned in to the Q1 office as soon as possible.  The last day contracts will be accepted is September 30th. Admission into the club is limited and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.  

The first 20 contracts turned in will be accepted.  We will contact you if your child has been accepted.  If your child is accepted, there will be a $5 fee, along with rules that must be followed for continuation of club involvement.

Club will be every Thursday from 3:00-3:55.  Pick up is at 4:00 sharp!  Students will participate in a variety of science experiments and art activities.

There will be another session of first-grade club after Winter Break, sometime in January or February, so if you miss this session, there will be one more opportunity.

We are excited to begin Parent-Teacher Conferences this year on Thursday, September 29th.  Below is the schedule for conferences.  Please notice that the schedule only allows for 10 minutes per conference, including transition time.  Please bear this in mind while we are meeting, and I appreciate any help you can give in keeping conferences short and concise so that we can stay on schedule.  Thank you so much!

Thursday, Sept. 29th
3:30     April Duckworth
3:40     Stacey McDonald
3:50     Kristin Peterson
4:00     Nicole Weighall
4:10     Elizabeth Wood
4:20     Angie Clark
4:30     Heidi Cook
4:40     Shannon Taylor
4:50     Leslie Nelson
5:00     Aimee Fleming
5:10     Aimee Fleming
5:20     Lisa Stallard
5:30     Terina Wayman

Thank you in advance to all the wonderful parents who have signed up to volunteer in our classroom! Volunteering is SO impactful in our classroom, and I appreciate those willing to give their time to help us be more successful.

Up to this point, we haven’t had a need yet for volunteers in our classroom because it has been important for students to first have a solid grasp of systems and procedures.  We are just now starting to get to that point, and I think we will be ready to have parents start volunteering beginning next week.

Below is the list of parents who signed up at Back to School Night to help in our classroom:

Monday:
9:00-10:30         April Duckworth
2:30-3:00           Elizabeth Wood

Tuesday:
9:00-10:30         Aimee Fleming
9:00-10:30         Kati Hammond

Wednesday:
9:00-10:30         Kristin Peterson
2:30-3:00           Leslie Burton

Thursday:
9:00-10:30        Heidi Cook

Please be sure to first check in at the office when you come to volunteer. I usually ask parent volunteers to do one-on-one reading with students, which I feel has, by far, the greatest impact on academics and success in our classroom!!

If you didn’t have a chance to volunteer at Back to School Night to help in our classroom, you may do so at any time.  Feel free to e-mail me to schedule volunteering times or please feel free to drop in to our classroom to volunteer any time! I really mean it! 🙂 We particularly need help with reading pull-outs (one-on-one reading with students), and this can be done at any point during the day when we are not out of the classroom or when we’re not doing math or Waterford.  Please check our “Daily Schedule” on the blog (click on the “Daily Schedule” tab at the top of the blog) to find ideal times for volunteering and feel free to drop in!  In general, the very best times for volunteering are daily from 9:30-10:30 (during our “Literacy Centers” activities) and daily from 2:30-3:00 (during our “Reading Groups” activities). 

Thanks again!

We finally heard back from the Hogle Zoo! Our new field trip date is confirmed and scheduled for Thursday September 22nd! We will be leaving the school at 9am and getting on the buses at the Hogle Zoo to come back to the school at 1pm. So, hopefully this still works with some of your schedules. 

Below is the list of parent chaperones who signed up at Back to School Night.  I realize that when you first signed up, we were planning on our field trip being on Sept. 6th, so I am not sure if the following parents are still able to come.  If you are still able to come, or if you didn’t sign up, but would like to, please send an email to Mrs. Dunmeyer.  We are only allowed to have 5 parents ride the bus with us, so the rest will need to drive separately. It appears that we already have enough parents signed up to ride the bus. Younger siblings may come with you as long as you drive separately and plan on paying zoo admission for them. Chaperones will need to bring a backpack to carry lunches for their group and bring a sack lunch for themselves.

Please plan on students wearing red shirts and uniform pants to the zoo, with good walking shoes. Students will need to bring a sack lunch from home that does not require a microwave, labeled with their names. School lunch will not be served.

CURRENT LIST OF VOLUNTEER CHAPERONES
April Duckworth……………..Bus
Kati Hammond………………Drive
Stacey McDonald…………..Drive
Harmony Bateman………….Bus
Shai Palmer…………………..Drive
Joe Taylor……………………..Bus
Jessica Russell………………Drive
Jennifer Gardner…………….Bus
Shelly Hemmelgarn…………Bus
Chantill Luthi………………….Drive/Bus

LUNCH 
For those students bringing home lunch; Please spend some time this weekend helping your student practice independent lunch preparation.  For example; 

We received a phone call from Hogle Zoo this morning, informing us that, due to scheduled maintenance, our field trip must be postponed!  We were surprised and sad to hear the news.  

We are trying to see if we can reschedule the field trip for Friday, September 16th, at the same times as before.  

We are so sorry for any inconvenience this change may have caused for you.  We will keep you posted on any updates just as soon as we hear back from Hogle Zoo.

This Friday, September 2nd is an early 1:00 release, but it is not a dress-down day.  Please be sure that your child is dressed in uniform.  Thank you!

Hello, Wonderful Parents! Just a reminder: we had requested that, if possible, all donations for field trips and parties be turned in by September 1st, and tomorrow is that day! Please donate $27 to help cover the cost of all field trips and parties for the year. Donations can be made to the office. We greatly depend on donations to make bus trips and crafts/treats/games possible at parties. Thank you so much!

If you are unable to donate at this time, we are happy to accept donations at any other point during the school year, too. Thank you!

TEXT NOTIFICATIONS: I strongly encourage you to sign up for text notifications.  This will allow me to send reminders, last-minute updates, etc. by text to your cell phone, and parents from my past classes have LOVED this!  To participate in receiving text message reminders, follow these instructions:

1. Simply send a text to 81010 with the message @dunmeyer
2. To opt out at any time, simply send a text to 81010 with the message unsubscribe@dunmeyer

SCHOLASTIC catalogues were sent home this week!  This is a great resource for building your home library to support your child as an emerging reader!

If you are ordering online at scholastic.com, please use our Class Activation Code, which is NL9MM.  

Online orders will be submitted to Scholastic at the end of every month.  So, the orders this month will be submitted on September 30th.
Thank you!