We will continue talking about the letter D this week because last week was a short week. Your child may bring a show and share this Friday again that starts with the letter D! This week there is no library; we have music instead on Friday . Also, mark your calendar, our next parent meeting will be in the Holmes Media November 20th at 5:30 . We will learn how to log in to view your child’s online portfolio! After the meeting, is the Holmes Chili Cook Off . If you wish to attend, bring a crock pot of your favorite chili blend. We will all enjoy tasting each others chili in the lunchroom and the judges will vote on the winner. I can’t wait to see you all there ! Finally, home visit sign-up sheet for November is on our website . Check it out and respond with the date and time that works best for you. Have a happy week.  🙂

• Tuesday the 7th and Thursday the 9th are parent teacher conferences.  I sent a note home highlighting your child’s conference time!
• This week we are talking about letter Cc.  Please bring an item from home that starts with C for show and share on Thursday this week.  No school this Friday!!!
• New pictures are up on our website from making homemade applesauce, the fire station field trip and the visit from the police officers.  Super cute!
• Music is this Thursday instead of library.  We are now alternating library and music.  This week is music and next week will be library. Eventually we will add gym into our schedule…  whoop whoop!!!

Tuesday, September 30th:

No School for early childhood students- PLC day for teachers.

Wednesday, October 1st:

Wednesday is our walking field trip to fire station #7.  Please make sure your child is wearing their walking shoes.  Also, I have only heard from one parent who will be coming with us on this field trip.  If you are wanting to come please let me know ASAP.  This will be the last day you will be able to fill out the parent volunteer application so Haeven has time to approve it before Wednesday.

Thursday, October 2nd:

Thursday is library day.  Remind your child to put his/her book in their book bag and then in their backpack. 🙂

Parent Teacher Conferences:

If you haven’t signed up for a parent teacher conferences please do so.  Can’t wait to see you! 🙂

• September 25^th a police officer is coming to our room to talk to our students about all types of safety!!!
• Library Day will be this Thursday the 25th.  Please remember to be keeping books in your library bag and inside your backpack after you read them. 
• We started our letter of the Week.  Please bring a show and share that starts with A this Friday the 26th!!!
• October 1^st is our field trip to the Fire House. Please wear walking shoes.
• If you are volunteering for the field trip fill out volunteer application ASAP online and reply to the field trip volunteer page so I have an idea of how many parents are coming.  
• Sign-Up for Parent-Teacher Conferences on our website if you haven’t done so already

Hi Families,

I hope you all were able to have a restful weekend.  It was great to see so many families show up at the zoo last Thursday evening.  I’ve been hearing stories about the zoo and the students were very excited to tell me what classmates they ran into.  If you were not able to make it I totally understand that it is impossible for every family to make all meetings.  We signed up for parent teacher conferences at the meeting so if you were not there please take a minute to sign-up.  The times available are on the home page under Parent Teacher Conference Sign-Up.  Just reply to the post with the time you would like and I will update it when I receive your message.  🙂  Happy Monday.

Today, Monday, September 15th: We have Library Day today!!!  Please make sure your child’s library book is in their library bag and their library bag inside their book bag.

Thursday, September 18th:  Parent Meet at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo at 5:00.  Zoo is open free for LPS families from 5-8.  Our meeting will start at 5 in front of the Zoo.

I will be sending home notes on upcoming events so please make sure to always check your child’s backpack daily.  🙂  Have a wonderful Monday!!!

Thursday, September 25th:  A police officer will be visiting our classroom to teach us about his/her job, their uniform and many types of safety (street safety, stranger safety, what do you do if you’re lost, gun safety, fire safety, etc.)

Wednesday, October 1st:  We will be taking a walking field trip to Fire Station #7 to have a tour.  Parents if you would like to join us we would love that.  If so, you will need to complete the volunteer application at http://www.lps.org/parents/ .  You will see a header labeled volunteering.  This needs to be completed as soon as possible because our administrator needs it at least a week in advance prior to joining us for a field trip. 🙂

Tuesday, October 7th and Thursday, October 9th:  Holmes Parent Teacher Conference night.  I will be setting up a sign-up sheet in the next week so sign-up for the time you want to meet for conferences. 🙂

Parents please notice that I added a heading on our home page that says September Home Visits.  Please click on this page and take a look at the dates and times offered for my next home visits which will be the first two weeks in September.  Reply to the message with the date and time you prefer.  If you need a different date and time please e-mail me personally at hholtorf@lps.org 🙂

Hi all!!!

So excited it’s our first day of school today!  Just wanted to shout this out to all of you.  I am looking forward to beginning this journey with all my families and their little ones.  Thank you for sharing them with me.  We will do so much together this year learning from each other.  I know you all are new to this website so please look around and become familiar with it.  Please post a reply to this message so I know that you found our site okay.  🙂  Also, I will be sending home with you your child’s census sheet.  Please look over it to make sure all the information is correct, answer the box questions on the back, sign and date and then return tomorrow.  Enjoy your day!!!!

-Ms. Haze