Sunday, February 8, 2009

SOPG Weekly Update: February 9-13

SOPG Weekly Update: February 9-13

Here’s what’s happening this week at your Susitna Optional Program:

Monday, February 9
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

In K/1 classes, parents and children will write in their journals and then transition to exploration time.

In 2/3 and 3/4 classes, children and parents will do one or two of the following activities:

  • Read with your child
  • Share student written stories
  • Write a story together
  • Do math activities
  • Play a literacy game
  • Play a math game
  • Play with pattern blocks
  • Play dominoes
  • Play word games
  • Finish math journal pages
  • Finish homework

Tuesday, February 10
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

Wednesday, February 11
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

Thursday, February 12
8:30-8:50am – “Meaningful Mornings” - Spend quality learning time with your child, drink coffee and connect with other parents. Parents must stay with their children in one classroom, together, to ensure safety.

1:30-3:00pm – PACT (Parents and Children Together) – Please come and help lead or assist with a pre-planned art project with students. The teachers plan the art project and have it all prepared for the parents to lead. Teachers then use this critical time to plan and collaborate with their Optional Program colleagues. If you have an idea for an art project to do with students, please share it with your child's teacher. Thanks!

Friday, February 13
8:50-9:15am – Optional Program Community Celebration - Come to Ingrid’s classroom to sing the new Optional Program Song and to enjoy other songs, poems and readings from students.

Special Note: To make up the snow days in January, Third Quarter Parent/Teacher Conferences have been cancelled. March 25 and 25 will be normal school days. Thanks for your understanding and please feel free to contact your child’s teacher with any questions.

Have a great week and we’ll look forward to seeing you at school!

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