CLASSROOM NEWS
Kindergarten: Hi Kindergarten family, next we will discuss Thanksgiving and read stories about Thanksgiving. We will be focusing on Retelling. We will continue with learning the color pink, and reviewing all the colors. We have sent home information about our Thanksgiving Feather Project. Please work with your child on this project and return them to school by Tuesday, November 14. We will also be doing some fun Thanksgiving activities in the classroom. In Math, we will review the shapes and subitize to number 5. We will continue to review positional words.
First Grade: Hello from First Grade! Next week, we’ll continue with informational text by reading “Who Eats What?” We’ll focus on food chains and food webs in this book. In math, we’ll use a 10 to help with subtraction. Please be reminded that our field trip is Thursday, November 16th. If you have not returned money or a permission slip, please do so by November 14th. If you have any questions, please reach out to your child’s teacher.
Second Grade: Greetings from Second Grade. As a reminder our field trip to the NC Zoo is vastly approaching. Please make sure that all permission slips have been turned in. Money for the trip is due by Friday, November 17, 2023. The cost is $20. Next week we will continue to describe the connections between events in a historical text. Students will begin to learn how to subtract two-digit numbers. Lastly, we will begin Thanksgiving activities. Please continue to read for at least 20 minutes each night and complete homework assignments.
Exceptional Children:
The students will learn about the letter T through the Letterland character Talking Tess. In math the students will learn about the number 8. We will read stories about turkeys.
Resource:
Art: I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has donated bottle tops so far!!!! I am still collecting them until we get out of school for Christmas Break!
Music: Thanksgiving and seasonal songs will highlight our week! Students will be overjoyed to see the Drum Kit set up in the front of the music room this week! They’ve been impatiently waiting for us to discuss technique and drum kit parts. Each student will have multiple opportunities this year to play the drum kit. We will have interactive, creative methods to classify “musical” and “environmental” sounds, too.
From the Nurse's Desk
Martin County School Health Services
Guidelines for Keeping Sick Children Home
Each day many parents are faced with a decision: should they keep their sick child at home or send them off to school? Often the way a child looks and acts can make the decision an obvious one. Please consider these guidelines:
Colds: Please keep your child at home if he/she has a fever over 100 degrees or is experiencing discomfort that would interfere with his/her ability to perform in school. (i.e. uncontrollable coughing, severe lack of energy). If your child experiences green nasal discharge that continues throughout the day, or a cough lasting longer than ten days, or is accompanied by fever or chills and is productive of discolored sputum, consult with your physician.
Conjunctivitis (pink-eye): Following a diagnosis of bacterial conjunctivitis, the child may return to school after the first dose of prescribed medication.
Diarrhea/Vomiting: A child with diarrhea and /or vomiting 3 or more times during the school day should stay at home and return to school only after being symptom-free for 24 hours.
Fever: The child should remain at home with a fever greater than 100°. The child can return to school after he/she has been fever free for 24 hours (without fever-reducing medicine such as Tylenol or Motrin).
Impetigo: The child with impetigo may return to school 24 hours after treatment has begun. A doctor’s note is required to return to school.
Rashes: Common infectious diseases with rashes are most contagious in the early stages. A child with a suspicious rash should return to school only after a health care provider has made a diagnosis and authorized the child’s return to school.
Strep Throat: A child with strep throat may return to school 24 hours after antibiotic treatment has begun.
A sick child cannot learn effectively and is unable to participate in classes in a meaningful way. Keeping a sick child home prevents the spread of illness in the school community and allows the child an opportunity to rest and recover.
