Great Start to the Year!

We are off to a wonderful start to a new school year!  I am very excited!  The students have tried many new things in the past few days that they are approaching with confidence.  We have had some frustrations, as there always is some, when you are dealing with technology.  We have also had a lot of fun learning.

If your 3B child has not mentioned it, they have started their blog pages.  We made our first attempt at accessing them and making a very short post last Friday.  Some did it successfully while others will review it today.  They are very, very excited to have their own blog pages and were excited to know their audience is the world!  We will be sharing writing, thoughts, pictures, etc. throughout the year via our blog pages.  Students would love to have their parents check the blogs and comment!!!  You do not need to sign in to comment.  Just read the blog post and comment at the bottom, but be sure to sign your name.  :)  They are waiting for some comments to be made.  Encourage grandparents and relatives to comment as well!  Thanks!

Slowly but surely, we attempted to access email as well (for those given parental permission).  I think most are getting the hang of it now.... it will get easier with practice.   The computers weren't cooperating at first, but after some tweaking, everything went super! I wanted to let parents know that email for school is used only for students to email within the school at this time.  That is just for monitoring purposes.  So, while it would be nice for your child to email you outside the school, that is not allowed at the current time.  You may send them emails but don't expect a response back as we are just working out the "bumps" and becoming familiar with it for the students.  Thanks for your understanding.

Today we jumped into our schedule a little as we had a few things to finish up from Friday.  I do have great pictures to share from our Olympics that I will be posting tonight as well. Although it was very hot, I think the students had a super time! Look for those pictures soon!  Everyone turned out to be a winner!

Please remember to return all papers that were sent home to be signed.  I am sending one today asking for parent emails as well as if you would mind checking my blog page via internet instead of me sending paper copies home.  Read through the letter and return it tomorrow.

We are off to a great start! I am loving all the smiles every day.  One of the 3B students stated, "The day is just flying by, and that was because we were having fun learning!"  That is what school is all about!

Have a great week!