Week of August 25-28

This Week:
Nature walk Monday Wear sneakers.
Happy Helpers: (bring show and tell) Monday -Avery; Tuesday -Evie; Wednesday - Jack; Thursday - Mary Grace
Tuesday - Principal Orientation -6:25-7:15 Campus Meeting -7:30-9
Book Fair - Tuesday-Friday
Thursday - Guest Reader - Rich Crawford (8:30 or 11:45? - let me know which is best)
Library - Return books
No School next Monday - Labor Day
Home visits have been great! It really is one of my favorite things to do.  This week, I will wrap it up with 3 boys - Wednesday - 12:30 - Sawyer, 2:00- Jack and Thursday @ 1:30 - Tommy

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible: Creation - Day 2 (sky & sea), Genesis 1:8
• Book of the Week:  The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow
• Habits: Review all PEARL rules
• Phonics/Reading/Writing:  Letters m,n - We will write letters with correct formation, sky write, handwriting without tears activities, sentence structure, phonemic awareness 
• Math: Count to 100, identify numbers 1-30, patterns,write numbers with correct formation 1-10 identify numbers on clock and begin learning to tell time, months, days of week, calendar skills
• Centers: Make day 2 page for our creation book; visual discrimination Sky color picture; sorting/counting sea shells; Friends shapes; Journal Writing
• Homework - Please return puzzle pieces from last week on Monday if you haven't yet.  Book of the Week Journal is due Monday.  Environmental print homework will be sent home Tuesday and Book of the Week Journal on Thursday.

One more note - all the children wanted me to give you this link to some music I use during centers and transition times.  It is on youtube from a previous VBS about 2 years ago.  Their favorite song is "You, You, You" Search this on youtube:  Sky VBS 2012 You, You, You.

Blessings.
Michelle

Our first week

     

   I truly had a wonderful first week at school with your children. They are so precious and we have had so much fun!  These are the sweetest children.  As you can tell from the pictures, we love to be outside. However, we do stay inside a lot too and have learned so many new things. 
A few highlights from last week:                                                            

Book of the Week (BOTW) - You Are Mine by Max Lucado - read it several times, discussed the themes of God being our maker and stuff not making us happy, vocabulary words within the text, comprehension questions                                          . 

Reading - Orientation to our phonics curriculum, "Fundations", rhyming, writing first and last name, the letter "t", Handwriting without tears
Math -Numbers 1-5, making patterns, pictographs
Centers - Self portrait, Who Am I sheet for class book, playdoh, assessments
Bible & Habits - PEARL (Polite, Example, Attitude, Respect, Listen)

Next Week:
Book of the week - The Story of Creation by Jane Ray
Reading - Letters t, b, f - letter formation (writing), sounds, word & sentence awareness, story time (comprehension, vocabulary). Enrichment - Morning message (reading words, sentences)
Writing name - letter formation, spacing, Phonemic awareness - rhyming, sentence structure
Math - Numbers 1-9 (writing too), graphs, AB patterns, 1:1 correspondence, calendar activities
Centers - Finish making class book, watercolor Creation book, will finish assessing each child during this time.
Bible - Genesis 1:1, 1:5 Creation- day 1 & use Jesus Storybook Bible
Habits - Continue PEARL rules. We will focus on one letter each day of PEARL rules.  We will continue this next week and review them all.

**Home visits the next 2 weeks. Let me know asap if the time/date does not work for you. I can reschedule. Visits 20-30 minutes

• Tuesday, August 19 - 1:30 - Avery
• Tuesday, August 19 - 2:30 - Zane
• Wednesday, August 20- 1:30 - Mary Grace
• Wednesday, August 20 - 2:30- Evie
• Thursday, August 21 - 1:30 - Phoebe
• Wednesday, August 27 - 12:30 - Sawyer
• Wednesday, August 27 - 2:00 - Jack
• Thursday, August 28 - 1:30 - Tommy

**Guest reader - Henry Massie - Thursday (8:30 ?)
Happy helpers - Monday - Phoebe, Tuesday - Sawyer, Wednesday - Tommy, Thursday - Zane
Happy helpers can bring one item for show and tell.
Mrs. Lawrence

First Week of School

I enjoyed meeting you all and the children this past week. We are going to have a wonderful year!  Next week, I will begin giving more details on our weekly curriculum and lessons on this blog. This week, I just want to highlight some important information to get us started.

• I will update the blog each Sunday and will email you the link. 
• Tomorrow (Monday)- drop off children in the classroom between 8:15-8:25.  Take pictures, etc. We will start class at 8:30.  
• Regular carpool Monday afternoon.  2 options - 1) stand on sidewalk at main entrance and you can get your child from the line only after I see you and your child tells me.  Also, you can only get your child when we are walking out.  So be there no later than 12:05.  2) Car line with last name visible. We will talk about carpool Tuesday night.
• Bring supplies Monday
• Tuesday will be regular morning & afternoon carpool. 
•  Parent Meeting - Tuesday evening. It will begin promptly at 7:00 and end at 7:50.
• Wednesday - Late Start 9:25; Jeans Day $3
• Snacks - healthy and completely nut free. Bring a labeled water bottle that will be sent home each Thursday.
• Blue Communication folders sent home each day and returned to school.

Looking forward to this week!
Mrs. Lawrence

Hello

Hi Parents,

I am very excited to have each one of your children in my class this year. This is my second year at Perimeter Christian School and my 12th year teaching. My husband, Chad, and I will celebrate our 17th year of marriage next Saturday.  We have two children.  Benjamin, age 13, is entering eighth grade and Emma, age 11, is entering sixth grade both at Perimeter School.  We moved here March 2013 from Minneapolis, Minnesota area after living there for four years. We were thrilled to move back to the South and closer to family since we are originally from Monroeville, Alabama. 

I graduated from Troy University in Troy, Alabama with a Masters Degree in Special Education. I also am licensed in the states of Georgia, Alabama and Minnesota to teach elementary education. I have taught resource classes for small groups of children, self-contained classes, and team taught children ages preschool to 8th grade during my 12 years.  I absolutely love teaching and feel like God truly directed me in this path, although it was not in "my plans".  

A few of my beliefs that shape my teaching is that I desire children to love learning and have fun while doing it. I also have high expectations for all my children no matter their learning styles or differences, but I understand those and we all work hard to achieve!  I treat my students as I want my own personal children to be treated and taught.  I love teaching at Perimeter to have the freedom to bring God, His creation, the Truth, and the Gospel into our lessons. 
 
I look forward to meeting you all next Friday during open house and a great school year!

Michelle Lawrence