Red Ribbon Week

Monday- Inside out day "Don't turn your life inside-out. Stay away from drugs."
Wear your clothes inside out!
Red bracelets will be given out, see if you can wear it all week!
Tuesday- Hat Day "Use your head... you're too smart to start."
Wear a hat to school and you get a treat at recess!
Wednesday- Students will wear red from head to toe to signify that they're "all red"y decided to stay away from drugs.
There will be fun activities at lunch recess that day.

Parent Teacher Conferences

It's time to sign up for parent teacher conferences. They will be held next Wednesday and Thursday. (October 6th and 7th)

To sign up for a time, please click on THIS LINK.
(Online scheduler is located at the bottom of the Alpine School District's homepage.)
Then go to Elementary schools and select: Vineyard Elementary
Using the password vikings, you can then enter your child's ID number or if you don't know it you can look it up from the site.
You will follow the prompts to select a time that works for you and your family.

Please make sure that you sign up. For all students who don't sign up, they will be assigned a time by the teacher.

I look forward to seeing you next week!

Picture Day - Tuesday the 28th

Don't forget!!! Tomorrow is picture day for students at Vineyard. An order form was sent home a few weeks ago with information about pictures. Today, a reminder sheet will come home with your child.

They also have a website to order from.

mylifetouch.com

picture day ID- UM030528Y0

From there you an pick the package and different backgrounds you would like.

Even if you aren't ordering pictures, please dress accordingly because every child will be in the class picture.

Carnival 2010

Thanks to all of the parents and PTA members who helped out and participated at this years Carnival!!! I had a great time walking around, talking with students and parents, giving rides, and eating wonderful food.

Here are a a few pictures I snapped while I was there:

Seritta and Jazmin at the Fish pond.Inoke and Vineyard students on the cart.Driving the cart with Jazmin.
Jacky and her little sister.Inoke, Enoch, and some more kids from the class in line at the Golf Cart Ride. (You can see Jacky, Braillen, Tupu, Chloe, and Samantha!)Maya trying to catch a trout.Tahlia and friends with their new face paint.

Book Project Due Date Reminder

How is your September Book Project coming?

It's due in a couple weeks on Thursday, September 30th. For more instructions and details, click on the "Book Projects" link at the top of the page.

9/27 Minimal Day

During the school year, we will be having 4 "Minimal Days." On these days the students will get out early and the faculty will be having Professional Development. Our first Minimal Day is coming up this Monday, so be ready!

Monday, September 27th

The schedule will go as follows:

AM Track Students- 8:00a.m.-12:30p.m.
PM Track Students - 9:15a.m.- 1:45p.m.

Subtraction Woes?

If your child is having a hard time with subtraction, here is a great method to practice at home.
It is called counting up. If you watch this youTube video, it will explain it better than I can type it. There isn't any sound, but the teacher writes the problem out step by step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-qy_S-9cY

If the link doesn't work, when you are youTubes website, search for "Counting up Subtraction"

Vineyard Carnival

Tomorrow afternoon Vineyard will be holding it's annual Carnival. I am so excited for the carnival and hope to see you there.

The carnival is from 4-7. I will be there from 6:00-6:30 giving Golf Cart rides.

Today the students helped decorate 2 liter pop bottles for the soda walk. The students were grouped into 4's and came up with their own theme.

School Bus Art

For our Friday Fun activity, we each used construction paper to make our own school bus. Students chose what it looked like, and who rode in the bus with them in the pictures. This was a fun art project for the class.

Buddy Reading

During small group time, we have been doing a variety of reading activities. One of them is buddy reading. Reading with a partner is a great way to improve fluency. Students can also be a peer tutor and help with sounding out words and figuring out the story. In our class we do 3 things when buddy reading:

1. Knee to Knee (or Desk to Desk)
2. Whisper Voice
3. Choose books from the Buddy shelf (both students have the a copy of the same book.)

This can also be done at home, even if you share one book.

Reminder:

Book Orders are Due tomorrow!
Order online! Info -------------->
Bring a check to school.

{Vineyard Carnival}

The carnival is coming upon us quickly! It will be held on Tuesday September 21st from 4:00-7:00. A paper will be coming home about buying tickets early. (It will be a bright green paper, don't miss it!)

For the silent auction this year the 3rd grade is asked to donate the following items if you can:
Theme "Outdoor Fun"
Toys
Puzzles
Bubbles
Chalk
Jump ropes
Frisbees
Kites
Play dough
Balls

This year we are also having a 2 liter soda walk. So any student can decorate a 2 liter bottle and bring it to class for the carnival.

There will be golf cart rides this year given by the teachers. I will be giving rides from 6:00-6:30!

Bully Role Play

Our class has been talking about building friendships, being respectful, and treating others kindly. We also have had discussions on what a bully is, and what to do in situations with them. Today the students were able to role play different situations where there might be bullies. They acted out two different versions of each problem. They did a great job and I know that they are going to have a great year being friends with one another.

Spelling for this week:

There were a few questions asked this last week about how to do the spelling homework. Some of the sorts can be confusing at first.

Please make sure that your child cuts out their spelling word cards. They need to be cut out in order to do the homework.

We have 3 groups of spelling in our class. The first week of class a spelling list was given to the students. Depending on what words they spelled correctly, they were assigned a group to work on vowel/spelling patterns to learn this year. Students can move to different groups as the year progresses as they improve.

The C's and V's on the cards represent the patterns. C's= Consonants and V's= Vowels. The students review over these patterns in school with me on the 1st day of the week and then practice by themselves Tuesday-Thursday.


The following are some pictures to help with the sorts at home.