Dear Parents,

Happy Wednesday! I pray that you had a great day! We began our day with the rest of the school, the gym, practicing the song that we are singing in church (on September 18^th).  The song is called “Creature Praise” and Mrs. Hurley taught us some sign language to do with the song.  So fun! Ask your firstie if they remember any of the sign language!  When we got back, we sat down in the back of the room and talked about confessing our sins to God and what that means.  We starting practicing a confession and absolution and then we prayed with other.  At the end, we blessed each other by making the sign of the cross on each other’s hands...have your child demonstrate for you!

Did you get your GONOODLE information?  This is only the second year that I have used this website, and my student’s last year just LOVED it.  It’s been kinda fun to watch the firsties this year be introduced to this, because some of them aren’t so sure about it all.  Ha.  The more that we do it, the more that they will enjoy all of the different things that we will do during our brain breaks. 

Today we learned a little more about a superhero named “Superflex” and what he does to help us.  Superflex is a social thinking curriculum that teaches kids to think about different social expectations, their awareness of their own behavior, and how to modify their behaviors with Superflex strategies.  We are going to learn to be flexible and to go with the flow.  We are going to learn how to deal with different “Unthinkables” that may try to derail us when we work in class or in groups.  This is the first year that I have used this curriculum and I am SUPER excited to see how it works with this group of firsties.  I will be sending home some various parent letters to you so that you can be aware of what we learning in regards to this program. 

We reviewed writing our capital letters today and also practiced our spacing! (Two fingered spacing) So far so good…..next week we will be introducing “Space Man”, who is a very important dude when it comes to writing.

We had an informational assembly today about the magazine sale and that info is coming home tomorrow (it’s a BIG packet, so it’ll be hard to miss!).

Have a great night! 

“Following the Signs”

Miss Gallagher