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March Madness

Blackwell Dads are serving ice cream at Brusters on Tuesday, March 17th from 6-8pm.

Come out to Brusters Ice Cream [located at the intersection of Shallowford Road and Trickum Road]. You'll be served by the dads of Blackwell Elementary students.

Our school will earn 20% of the proceeds from 6-8pm.

March 17th is also Blackwell night at Texas Roadhouse. A form came home in your child's folder.

March Birthdays: Happy Birthday to Olivia on March 20th.

Stars of the Week: March 2- Candace

                              March 9- Kaleigh

                              March 16- Cassidy

                              March 23- Bianca

Letters of the Month: W, X, V, Y, Z

PICTURE DAY IS MARCH 24. WE WILL ALSO HAVE A CLASS PICTURE MADE.

February News and Notes

Happy Birthday Giselle-Feb. 8th

Happy Birthday Jayzon-Feb. 15th

Happy Birthday Gracie-Feb. 17th

Happy Birthday Tyler-Feb. 28

Stars of the Week Feb. 2-6-Giselle

                              Feb. 9-13-Jayzon

                              Feb. 23-27-Tyler

Letters of the Month- L and K

Feb. 3-PTA

Feb. 4-Early Release-Dismissal 12:20

Feb. 6-National Wear Red Day[American Heart Association]

Feb. 12-Last day to bring Box Tops for this year

Feb. 27-Hat Day-Bring 50 cents or more to donate to the American Cancer Society.

Reminders:

Dimes of Hope-Thank you to all who have been bringing dimes to raise money for the American Cancer Society. We are filling our water bottle with many dimes.

Going Green-Remember to continue bringing in items to recycle.

Congratulations to Ryan for bringing in his Six Flags Reading form. He has read 374 minutes and will receive a free ticket in May.

Congratulations to Bianca, Gracie, and Kaleigh for mastering all 40 Kindergarten sight words. They are working on some harder words now.

We will miss E'million who has moved to Cherokee County.

Valentines will be exchanged on Friday, Feb. 13th. Thank you to Ryan's Mommy who is sending in a special treat.

Remember to practice the coins with your child-including the quarter for this next nine weeks.

GKIDS testing continues.

Happy New Year 2009

January 5th-Teacher Workday

January 19th-Student/Teacher Holiday

January 22th-100th Day of School-Homework Projects Due

January 26-30-Conference Week-EARLY DISMISSAL  12:20

Letters of the Month-R and F

Social Studies-Martin Luther King Jr., New President-Obama

Bring in items to recycle-Blackwell is going GREEN

Practice sight words at home.

Turn in Book It form at the end of the month.

Continue to read for the Six Flags reading program. Log your time.

Theme-Winter

 

November News

Five Guys Blackwell Night--November 13th

November 17th--Book Fair Week

November 10-November 14  Collecting change and dollars for United Way

November 21st--Kindergarten Classes have a small feast together during our snack time[ This is not the feast that the lunchroom cooks and the parents are invited to]

Please continue to read daily and record on your Book It form--Congratulations to Bianca, Tyler, Olivia, Angel, Isaias, and Ryan for meeting their reading goal for October. They each received a free personal pan pizza certificate. Keep Reading. It is not too late to send in your forms.

Thank you for doing a great job on your daily homework. Don't forget to review your sight words.

We learned about Veteran's Day this month. We also learned about voting in our class.

We have earned our first Lunchroom Leader award. We enjoyed having our stuffed animal friends for a special reading day.

Star Students- Gracie, Olivia, Nakayla, and Isaias

September News

Don't forget that September 16 is an Early Release Day. Your child will be dismissed from school two hours early at 12:20.

You may send the library books back after one week or earlier. The children have had a lesson in the media center on taking care of books.

Mrs. Haskett came to do a lesson with I Care Cat in our classroom. She is our guidance counselor and will do lessons in our classroom this year.

Monday-September 8 is Stevie B's night.

Barney the Bus is coming next week to teach us about bus safety.

T-shirt order forms are coming.

Thank you for the great response to the homework.

The children are learning about different position words in math. They are also recognizing patterns and numbers. Please review any math pages that come home in the folder. Remember a lot of hands on activities are being done.

In Language Arts, we are learning about letters-recognition and sounds. We are reading and writing every day. We are also working in our D'Nealian handwriting workbooks.

Chick-Fil-A Night and Hat Day

Tonight is Chick-fil-A night from 5-7p.m. on Chastain Road. This is a fundraiser night and will benefit our school. Our class won the Stevie B.'s night by having the most students. They awarded us pizza in our classroom. Thank you for supporting the Blackwell activities. I know you can't go to every one of them. We also had Texas Roadhouse night and Skate night. There is a skate notice coming home today about an all day skate on Labor Day. Tomorrow, August 29, is Hat Day. Bring 50 cents to support the American Cancer Society and wear your favorite hat. Remember --- we are out of school on Monday, September 1st for Labor Day Holiday. I hope you have a fun and safe holiday weekend.

Welcome to Kindergarten

Welcome to our Kindergarten Blog-O'Dell Online

It was great to meet all of our precious students and their parents at Sneak-a-Peek. We have had a wonderful beginning of the school year. There is so much excitement about coming to Kindergarten. We have been very busy learning since Day 1. The smiles on the faces of the children as they come to school and work in the classroom are such a treasure. They truly do make our day. You will be able to receive an e-mail every time I update the Blog if you suscribe to my Blog. I will update the Blog as needed and at least monthly. You will also continue to receive weekly communication from me. I will communicate through different ways this year-parent letters, Blog, telephone, and e-mail.Please don't hesitate to write me a note in the daily folder, call me at school, or e-mail me if you have any questions or concerns. It is an honor to be your child's teacher.