Today in your child's orange folder you will find his/her report card. I have included a rubric for language arts and math to give you a sense of the expectations for this trimester, and how these will change as we progress through the year. Hopefully this will be helpful as you look at your child's report card. I am looking forward to meeting with all of you next week!

We have been working on creating social stories as a class for various routines. I have been taking pictures of students modeling these routines and we are making them into class books. So far we have a completed book for sharing and a book in progress for quiet reading and playing board games. When the books are finished they serve as good reminders for appropriate behavior in specific situations and are also just fun to read.

For our next share I have asked everyone to bring in 3 items that start with the same letter. Children will have an opportunity to share their items and we will guess what letter they represent. I'll remind them again after the Thanksgiving break, but I thought some children might enjoy thinking about and gathering their items over the break.

Our next science unit, which we will be covering after Thanksgiving, focuses on rocks. I have many, many rocks, but if children happen to find an interesting or special rock that they would like to bring in for our study that would be great. I'm thinking the ground will soon be covered in snow and rock collecting will become a bit more challenging!