Christmas Fun!

Here's a list of activities/dates to remember for the month of December:

Saturday, 12/5 - Ansted Christmas Parade...students in the after school program that have returned permission slips will be walking in the parade.  Please be at AES at 3:00.  Students must be picked up by a parent/guardian at Ansted Baptist Church at the end of the parade.

Monday, 12/7 - APAC (formerly PTO) will be meeting at 5:30.

Friday, 12/11 - Peanuts Movie  field trip for students with no more than five behavior violations for the six weeks term.

Wednesday, 12/16 - Gifts for the Nursing Home should be sent in on or before this date.  Please, no food items or breakables.

Friday, 12/18 - Second graders will be walking to the Ansted Nursing Home to give gifts and sing Christmas carols for the residents.  We will be leaving at 2:15.  

Monday, 12/22 - Santa will be visiting AES! 

Christmas Dress Up Days

Thursday, 12/17 - Fancy/Dress Up
Friday, 12/18 - Red/Green
Monday, 12/21 - Ugly Christmas Sweater
Tuesday, 12/22 - Pajamas

More information will be sent home as the dates get closer.  Please be sure to check your child's class weekly newsletter.

It's been a while...

With all of the craziness that goes along with starting school, Halloween, and then on to Thanksgiving, we have been slacking in our posts on the blog.  I want to sincerely apologize and promise to try and post more often!

With that being said, we have a lot of things going between now and Christmas.  I'll add a more detailed post about these events/reminders next.  I'm also planning on updating our calendar, as well.
Thanks for your patience and continued support!

-Mrs. Brewer

Homework...

Students will have the same homework daily (for the most part).  Each evening, students are expected to do the following:

• read their AR book for 15 minutes
• study spelling words - test on Fridays
• Mad Minute math sheet
• Everyday Math Home Links (This goes with the math lesson from the day and should take no more than 10-15 minutes). 

Homework is due the next day.  Failure to complete assignments will result in students completing work in detention.  

Snack Time

Since AES will no longer have the grant to provide each student with a fresh fruit/vegetable snack, students will be responsible for their own snacks this year.  The 2nd grade teachers, along with the support of our awesome parents, have created and sent home a snack calendar where each parent will only have to send a snack once per month.  Please, please, please make sure that snacks are prepackaged and meet the nutritional guidelines set by the WVDE.  We cannot serve snacks that don't meet the guidelines.  The calculator can be found here:  https://wvde.state.wv.us/child-nutrition/tools/calculator.html

Some items that we know meet the guidelines are:

• all fresh fruit, vegetables (cannot be cut, must be store packaged)
• Great Value (Walmart brand)90 Calorie Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
• Snack Packs Sugar Free Jello
• Stauffer's Original Animal Crackers
• 100% Juice (some juices say 100% vitamin C, but it must be 100% juice)
• Scooby Doo Graham Crackers

"What's Your Super Power?"

AES was full of super heroes on Tuesday, August 11th, as we held our annual Open House.  Families were treated to dinner, there was face painting and a super photo booth, plus representatives from various agencies throughout our community.  It was a great time for students, parents, and teachers!

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog!  We'd like to use this as a way to keep you informed about what's going on in our classroom and up to date on events, testing, etc.  We're both very excited for the school year and the opportunity to be working with your child.  Please let one of us know if you ever have any questions or concerns.  The easiest and most efficient way to contact us is via a note in the agenda or via email (jbrewer@k12.wv.us or clesher@k12.wv.us).

We're looking forward to a great school year!

-Mrs. Brewer & Miss Lesher