I hope everyone had a fantastic three day weekend!  We spent lots of time reviewing routines (three days is a long time to go without practicing!)  We have also been working really hard to learn the names of everyone in the class.  To help out with this, and get in a little reading practice, today in your child's yellow folder there is a class book.  These copies are for you to keep- each child also has a copy here at school.  We have also started sharing artifact bags.  As these are shared, the children who are not sharing are working on being really good listeners, trying to think of comments or questions for their classmates, and making sure that the focus stays on the person who is sharing (this is a challenge- even for adults sometimes!)  If your child hasn't brought his bag in yet, please send it in the next couple of days.  It is really fun for all of us to learn more about the individuals in the class.  Also, just a reminder that picture day is Friday.  Information about this was sent home in the red folder on the first day of school.