Dear Parents

What an amazing turn out for Back to School Night! I truly appreciate your support and I’m very excited to meet with you all during Fall Conference week.  A Sign-Up Genius will be going out soon for our fall conferences.  Most of my conferences will take place on October 9th. This is a student holiday, so I am holding them throughout the day.  Conferences are a great time to learn more about how to help your child with reading, writing, spelling, and math.  In third grade, the conferences are parent-teacher conferences, so please make childcare arrangements for your 20-minute slot.

Tuesday evening, you received a conference goal sheet to complete.  Once I have received your completed form, I will fill in the “T” (teacher) sections.  Please note that the “Goals” section will be finished during our conference time. Please return your completed conference form, the MVP letter, and the Book Buck Library contributions to me by Tuesday, September 26th.  If you were unable to attend the Back to School Night, your child’s forms will be in this week’s Tuesday folder.  Let me know if you have questions about any of these forms.

I forgot to mention in the last blog post that our class won the Golden Spatula Award last week! This award is given out to classes who have good manners in the lunchroom.  We have the award certificate and “golden spatula” spirit stick hanging outside our classroom door.  I am so proud of these kiddos!

Finally, thanks so much for all the Box Top labels that have already been turned in.  The annual Box Top contest runs through October 6 and the competition is FIERCE!!  The top 5 classes who turn in the most Box Top labels receive some awesome prizes.  Also, don’t forget HEB runs a promotion (Sept. 6 - 19) in whereby if you purchase 10 Box Top items you receive 60 bonus Box Tops and if you purchase 15 Box Top items you receive 100 bonus Box Tops.  You can find a list of participating products here: http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/ participating-products.  If nothing else, you could stock up on your Green Giant canned veggies and earn a certificate pretty cheaply.  HEB also currently has an in-store coupon (valid until Sept 19th) for certain Green Giant canned vegetables. Just a thought! :)

Thanks so much for all of your support and enjoy your week!

Warmly,

Mrs. McDonald