Author: Columbia Public Schools

Mrs. Bushmann’s
First Grade Flight Notes

1st grade Lee Expressive Arts School

Sept. 22, 2017

Important Dates
Monday, Sept. 25th
No School
Teacher Collaboration Day
Friday, Oct. 6th
Trip to the Daum Museum in Sedalia
Tuesday, Oct. 17
Early Dismissal
School gets out at 12:10
Friday, Oct. 20
Picture Retake Day
Monday, Oct. 30
Teacher Work Day
No School
Tuesday, Oct. 31
Fall Festival

The Fall Festival is coming up at the end of October. For those new to Lee, this replaces any kind of Halloween celebration. Instead we have a school-wide theme and spend the day celebrating and learning. This year the theme is Spin a Story and 1st graders will focus on fairy tales. Your child may dress in a costume that reflects a fairy tale. Please see the flyer in this week’s folder for more details.
Daum Contemporary Museum Field trip
Friday, Oct. 6th 8 am- 1:00 pm
We will go to the Daum Art museum in Sedalia, Mo. Please see the flyer and sign and return on Monday. Please consider going. We need quite a few parents to help supervise small groups.
Lego Club
See the flyer in this week’s folder. Lego club is very popular and you must return the form now for your child to be considered, even though they won’t go until 2nd Trimester.
Read-A-Thon
Please consider participating in this wonderful fundraiser for our school. In a perfect world we wouldn’t need to have fundraiser—but the PTA uses this money to pay for buses so we can take field trips to wonderful places. Even if you only have your child earn $1 it will mean they have at least participated.
I hope you are having your child read books (or be read to!) and asking friends and families for bids. This is a great fundraiser for our kids and helps us avoid having to sell candy and giftwrap. I hope you’ll consider participating and sponsoring your child. Any amount is appreciated. Forms are due back by Sept. 29th.
Scholastic Book Order
Due date is Friday, Sept. 22nd
I can extend the deadline to Sunday to give you time to order if you so desire. If you don’t have the flyers, you can go on-line to order and use our class code of LWBR9
Scholastic offers reasonably priced books that will help build your child’s library. Take a look. Easiest way to order is on-line. See the attached letter with details of how to do that. Thanks!

Reading: We have started working in small reading groups.
Writing: We are working on getting down at least 3 ideas while we stretch our words and reread our writing. We are learning to try to “paint a picture in each other’s brains”. We’ve added working on using question leads in our writings. We have added question leads and next sound leads to our repertoire.
Math: We are working on breaking down 10 into different combinations.
Science: Our animal of the week is the Orca. Did you know they are a mammal?
Social Studies: We are studying families and our place in them.
Word Study: We will begin with a review of short vowels, being sure every word has a vowel (syllable too!) and that it’s the correct vowel.

School Arrival and Dismissal
Remember that the children are allowed into the building at 7:35. There is no supervision before this time. The tardy bell rings at 7:55. That is the official start time to our day. If your child is a parent drop-off in the morning and you would like to have them eat breakfast you should plan to drop them as close to 7:35 as possible. This way they have time to eat their breakfast and be ready to learn at the start of our day. All children are expected to be here by then or they will be marked absent or tardy. We will dismiss buses first this year at 2:50 and then parent pick-up will start at 3:05.

SNACKS
We could use any donations of snacks that you would like to send. Snack suggestions are: graham crackers, cheese crackers, goldfish, Chex Mix, pretzels, grapes, apples, pudding, etc. I appreciate you helping out with this. If each family would send a snack for our class once a month, we would have enough. We have 19 students.

You might want to label and send a light jacket to school that could hang on your child’s hook. It is quite lovely with the new air-conditioning, but several of the children found it to be colder than they are comfortable.
Children are welcome to bring a water bottle to school.

Questions? Concerns?
Please call me at school at 214-3530. I am always here by 7:15 and I stay until 3:15 (usually later, but always til then). You may call me at home at 445-3942. Email is also a great way to contact me. I read it several times a day. I have an open door policy and parents are welcome to visit anytime.
Lottie Bushmann lbushmann@cpsk12.org