Archive for March, 2010

plastic cup

Your child is bringing home a plastic cup today. While this may seem odd, when you ask your child to tell you about Mr. Steve who visited our classroom this afternoon to do some science experiments with us, you will understand what the cup is for. Have fun playing with water this weekend!

Math Homework

The kids are bringing home a 3-D Shape Hunt homework paper tonight. This is totally optional and certainly not expected back tomorrow. If you choose to do this activity with your child, please try to get it back to me by the end of the week. Thanks!

Two important bits of info!

First, conferences are coming up soon. As you read in the Sheehan News, they will be on the afternoon of April 7 and the afternoon and evening of April 14. Please drop me a comment, or an email, or a note in your child’s VIP tomorrow to let me know which day is better for you [...]

Scholastic Ordering All Set…

Online ordering is all set for the Scholastic Book Orders. I’ll leave it open until Monday afternoon. And in case anyone is wondering, if you are looking at ordering books from the Just-Right Nonfiction form, most of the kids in our class are reading books in the A-D range (meaning they would be able to [...]

At a Conference…

I’m going to be at a literacy conference today and tomorrow  at Lesley University with Mrs. Truman and Mrs. P. The kids and Mrs. Holbrook are prepared and I expect the days to go smoothly. I just realized that Mrs. Holbrook sent home the book club order this week and I have not set up the ordering [...]