Mrs. Stalsonberg's Class

Our Classroom Picnic

2011-06-20T22:02:00.003-04:00

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 21, 2011, is our classroom picnic!

It will begin at noon. Please meet us in the classroom and we will head outside together.

Please remember:

\lunch from home unless you ordered one from the café

\blanket or towel to sit on for each child

\if you would like, please put sunscreen on your child in the morning before school- I can not put it on your child.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Ice Cream Sundae Party

2011-06-13T19:06:00.002-04:00

Please send in the $2 for the class ice cream sundae party for the last day of school. If you have already paid, thank you! I need the money ASAP, so I can go shopping for the goodies this weekend!

THANK YOU!!

Class Picnic

2011-05-31T20:53:00.004-04:00

Please return your response for the class picnic as soon as possible, even if no one can attend. I will need to make sure that all students will have a lunch, either provided from home or ordered from the cafe. I need responses no later than, June 14th. Thank you!

Beaver Lake Nature Center Field Trip This Wednesday

2011-05-23T18:58:00.003-04:00

We will have out field trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center this Wednesday. Please have your child dress appropriately for a walk through the woods. SNEAKERS and SOCKS, no dresses, shorts if it will be warm, sweatshirt if necessary, boots if it is wet and muddy on the ground.

If you are chaperoning, please meet me at the classroom at 9:25, and don't forget your camera.

If it is possible, please have all children eat breakfast at home so we can leave for Beaver Lake promptly at 9:30 am. Thanks!!

Don't forget t a bag lunch with a drink, if you didn't order one from the cafe. Please try to send the lunch is stuff that can be thrown away. It is much easier! Thanks!

No School This Wednesday

2011-05-16T16:14:00.001-04:00

The teachers have a Superintendent Conference Day this Wednesday and there will be NO SCHOOL for students.

A Few Reminders

2011-05-09T20:19:00.002-04:00

Author Visit this Thursday with Matt McElligot

Field Trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center on Wednesday, 5/25/11 Please send in permission slips and $2 admission

Spring photos need to be paid for or returned ASAP.

Socks and sneakers needed for safety. Please have your child wear socks and sneakers for recess and P.E. classes EVERYDAY! If your child does not have sicks and sneakers he/she will not be allowed to play. Thank you for your cooperation!

Beaver Lake Nature Center Field Trip

2011-05-02T19:35:00.003-04:00

We will be enjoying a field trip to Beaver Lake Nature Center on May 25, 2011. Please be sure to fill out the permission slip and send it into school with the $2 admission.

We will be enjoying our lunch at Beaver Lake so please plan on ordering a bag lunch from the cafe or send in a lunch with drink from home.

Chaperones are welcome, please let me know if you are interested in joining us!

Thank you!

Happy Spring?!

2011-04-26T20:52:00.002-04:00

With spring weather upon us, please remember to have your child wear layers of clothing to accommodate for cooler mornings and warmer afternoons. Also, please have your child wear sneakers. They are much safer on the playground.

PLEASE HELP!!

2011-04-04T20:17:00.001-04:00

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING!!! Spring Open House Basket Raffle Donations

We will be putting together a GIFT WRAP basket for our Spring Open House Basket Raffle. It is a fundraiser for our PTA. Tickets will be available at Open House. Please donate new items to put in the GIFT WRAP basket. You can also donate money and I will shop for the stuff. Please donate items by Friday, April 8.

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING!!! Spring Open House Basket Raffle Donations

2011-03-28T20:12:00.005-04:00

Final Week of PARP

2011-03-21T20:33:00.001-04:00

We are celebrating our final week of PARP this week.

Monday, 3/21: read a shirt
Tuesday, 3/22: Kindergarten musical
Thursday, 3/24: Last call for this years PTA membership. Remember it is only $5 per person.
Friday, 3/25: Dress like a pirate to wrap up PARP and every student will get their second free PARP book from MHP PTA.

Thank you, MHP PTA, for making this so much fun!!

Raising Money for Tourette Syndrome!

2011-03-14T19:21:00.004-04:00

Thank you to everyone who raised money for the Tourette Syndrome Association through our school's Fact Frenzy!! Our class collected over $300 and the school collected over $1300!! Wow!! Thank you for your generosity!! The kids learned some math facts as well!!!

Old Socks

2011-03-08T23:17:00.001-05:00

Our supply of erasers for our dry erase boards has dwindled. Please send an old, clean sock in to school for your child to use for a white board eraser. Thank you!

Can Donations

2011-02-28T19:09:00.002-05:00

We collected 79 canned goods for the local food pantry! Thank you to all who donated!

Mrs. Hansen and her class delivered several boxes of the canned goods to Bernadettes Bistro for distrubtion. They were most appreciative. Then Mr. Joe, Christina Rupracht and Mrs. Stevens loaded two vans with what was left and hauled them down to the village offices.

Five big cases have been set aside to help the Patterson family who recently had a fire. the rest, about
15 large boxes was picked up at 9am last Thursday morning by ARISE to help families from our school district who need them. ARISE was most grateful also and could not thank us enough for the large donation, which she said was timed perfectly.
So thank you to all the families and staff who worked on this....it helped a lot of people!

Honesty Show

2011-02-14T22:58:00.002-05:00

Honesty show on Friday! We will present a short honesty show in the Millard hawk Auditorium at 2:15 on Friday! All are welcome!!

We have collected 74 cans so far towards our goal of 100 cans! Please consider donating if you have not already done so! Thank you to those who have already donated!!

Valentine's Day Party

2011-01-31T21:26:00.005-05:00

We will have our Valentine's Day Party in our classroom on Monday, February 14, 2011.

¨ Please send in an empty tissue box for the kids to decorate for their Valentines Box.

¨ Please pay $2 or the remaining $6 for the goodies for the party, use the envelope provided (if you have not already paid).

¨ Please have your child do Valentines for EVERYONE in the class so no one is left out. See list below.

¨ Please have your child do the writing on the Valentines. It is good practice for them!

Valentine List:

Nicholas

William

Jaidelynn B.

Alyssa

Destanie

Renee

Edward

Brett

Dylan

Adrianna

Abigail

Susanna

Madelyn

Caleb

Logan

John

Cheyanna

Alexandra

Madden

Christian

Jadalynn V.

Jaden

Mrs. Bishop

Nurse Jessica

Mrs. Stalsonberg

Please Consider Donating--100 Cans of Kindness

2011-01-18T20:01:00.004-05:00

Today was the 84th day of school! We will be doing a service project for the 100th Day of School! I would like to collect 100 canned/boxed goods to donate to Caughdenoy Methodist Church's Food Pantry. Our goal is to collect 100 items by the 100th day of school. Please consider sending in some canned or boxed goods. If every student in the class donated just 5 items, we would have over 100 items to donate!!

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation!!

An Educational and Fun Field Trip to Hospital-Land!

2011-01-10T20:36:00.004-05:00

The students enjoyed a fun trip to Hospital-Land. They acted out a short skit about a young girl going to the hospital with her parents to have her tonsils removed. Nurse Jo was the nurse who taught us all about a visit to the hospital. She was wonderful. Destanie was out "patient," Madelyn and Caleb were her parents. The doctors were Susanna, the anesthesiologist, and Brett. Eight nurses helped transport Destanie to the "operating room and back to her bed after the "surgery." These eight nurses were Jadalynn, Abigail, Renee, Madelyn, Nicholas, Edward, Christian and Cheyanna. The wake-up nurse was William who got to "wake up" Destanie after her surgery. The three nurses who helped out after the surgery were Jaidelynn, Alyssa and Jaden. Logan was the discharge nurse. John and Dylan got to help out with Gus Gutz and show the kids about the internal organs!! He was cool!!

After the skit, the students had fun taking turns in centers. They rode in a wheelchair and got to push people in a wheelchair, used a walker and crutches, rode on a stretcher, listened to their heartbeat with a stethoscope, used a blood pressure cuff, tried on casts, learned about internal organs from "Gus Gutz" and sat on a hospital bed and told Nurse Jo their hospital or doctor stories. We even saw real x-rays!!

Thank you to Mr. Haynes for chaperoning this field trip. we appreciate your help. We hope you had as much fun as we did!

Hospital-Land Field Trip

2011-01-03T19:48:00.004-05:00

Field trip permission slips were sent home today. We will be going to Hospital-Land in Syracuse across from Crouse Hospital next Monday, January 10, 2011. Please sign and fill out the permission slip ASAP. I have to notify the cafeteria ASAP how many bag lunches will be needed. We will eat in the classroom when we return from the trip. The cafeteria will be closed. We do need chaperones. The children will be taking part in centers and it is always helpful to have an adult at each center. There is no cost for the field trip so all you need to return is the signed permission slip and bag lunch form, if needed.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR RETURNING THE FORM PROMPTLY!!!

What is Hospital-Land?

"Since 1976, Crouse Hospital has been educating first-grade students throughout Onondaga County (more than 5,000 in 2009; 165,000 since '76) with our free Visit to Hospital-Land community service program. Funded by the Crouse Hospital Auxiliary, this unique program is designed to lessen the fears and confusion of young children who may have to visit a loved one in the hospital, or stay in a hospital themselves."

Christmas Party

2010-12-20T20:34:00.002-05:00

We will be having our classroom Christmas party on Wednesday. If you have not sent in the $2 for the party goodies or the wrapped book for the gift exchange, please do so by Wednesday. Thank you!

I hope that all of you have a wonderful holiday and Christmas vacation!

Our Shining "Stars"

2010-12-15T22:59:00.007-05:00

What an AWESOME job all the students did at our first grade musical!! I am so proud of all of you!!

"Santa and the Star Search"

2010-12-13T20:55:00.002-05:00

We look forward to seeing you at our performance tomorrow night, Tuesday, December 14th at 6:30 pm. Please have all students to their classrooms by 6:15. Please remember to bring canned or boxed food for the Lions Club.

Santa and the Star Search

2010-12-06T19:04:00.003-05:00

We hope to see you all at our evening performance of "Santa and the Star Search" this Tuesday in the Millard Hawk Auditorium at 6:30. Please have all students to their classrooms by 6:15 (kids can hang their coats in their lockers and leave boots at the classroom- less for you to carry around) and then you can return to the auditorium to get a good seat. Sit on the left side of the auditorium to see our kids best! They will be on the risers at the far left. (Jadalynn's parents should sit on the right side to see her best. Cheyanna's parents to the left and Brett's parents to the right for the best viewing!!) Thank you to everyone who sent in T-shirts. They are all decorated and ready for our shining stars!!

Please come back to the classroom after the performance to pick up your child! We will not dismiss students from the auditorium or the hallway. For everyone's safety, please meet us in the classroom!

Hope to see you all Tuesday night!!

Christmas Musical

2010-11-29T20:26:00.002-05:00

We will be performing our annual first grade Christmas musical, "Santa and the Star Search" on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at 6:30 pm in the Millard Hawk Primary School auditorium. All are invited. Please have the students in their classroom by 6:15 and then you are free to head down to the auditorium and get a good seat. Our class will be on the left side of the stage.

Please send in a plain white T-shirt (no pockets) labeled with your child's name ASAP. Extras are always welcome! We will decorate them in class!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

2010-11-22T21:14:00.003-05:00

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Due to the short week, we will not be doing any new ELA stories or spelling words. We will start new stuff next week!

It was great to see many of you at our parent-teacher conference. Thank you for taking time from your busy schedules to meet with me to discuss your child's progress in first grade!

Tuesday, December 7th at 6:30, we will have our first grade musical for all first grade students. It will be in the Millard Hawk auditorium. All are welcome to attend. More info to follow when available!

Parent-Teacher Conferences

2010-11-15T19:30:00.004-05:00

At Open House, you all signed up for Parent-Teacher Conferences. These conferences are scheduled for this Thursday evening, Friday afternoon and Monday afternoon. I look forward to meeting with you all!

I have enjoyed working with your child since September! I really look forward to continuing our progress!!

I apologize for not doing a NEWSLETTER last week! My husband's grandmother passed away last Monday and our thoughts and time were taken up with her passing...

Harvest Celebration

2010-11-01T18:51:00.002-04:00

Harvest Party

2010-10-18T20:57:00.003-04:00

We will be having our Harvest party on Friday, October 29, 2010.

We will also have a school-wide parade and celebration at 9:30 in the gymnasium.

Please remember that no costumes are to be worn or brought to school. We are making our costumes in art class.

Classroom Parties

2010-10-12T21:59:00.003-04:00

Last year, I collected $2 from each child for each classroom party. This helped pay for decorations, food, drinks and paper products. We have 5 classroom parties throughout the year- Harvest (Halloween), Christmas, Valentine's, Easter and the End of the Year Ice Cream Party. This totals $10 for all the parties for the year. I would be happy to collect $2 each time from each student or you can send in $10 and you will be all set for the year. You have the option.

Thank you!

HELP WANTED!!

2010-09-27T20:24:00.007-04:00

We are STILL looking for classroom volunteer!!!! If you are not able to help, grandparents or aunts and uncles are also welcome in the classroom. We LOVE volunteers!! I need someone for Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00-10:45 am. All help would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if you are able to come in and help!! Thanks!

You are Invited to Open House this Thursday!

2010-09-20T20:14:00.004-04:00

Our Open house- Meet the Teacher Night, is this Thursday from 6:30-7:00 pm, for first grade students.

Mr. Hansen, our P.E. teacher will have a presentation in the gymnasium for first graders from 7:00-7:10 pm.

All are welcome to attend!!

I look forward to seeing you there.

There will be sign-ups for the November Parent-Teacher Conferences. Please make sure you sign up for one!

Thanks! See you Thursday!!

Rollin' Right Along!

2010-09-13T20:57:00.002-04:00

Well here we are on Day 4 of the school year and we are all adjusting well. We started our ELA centers today with just a few centers. The students did computer, writing and reading centers. Soon, they will also do SmartBoard and grammar/spelling centers too.

The kids are getting used to the rules of the classroom. They often need reminders to work quietly but they are getting better at that!!

They are enjoying the SmartBoard and the activities we have done with it!

Please return any forms that were sent home on the first day of school. I need them to put together the Classroom Address Book and to know whose pictures can be included on the Classroom Blog on the internet.

See you on September 8!!

2010-08-27T18:24:00.003-04:00

Welcome to First Grade!

We are going to have a great year together! We will learn how to read, write and do math. We will use computers; cooperative learning and we will learn sign language! We will learn all about great character and being a good friend! In order to do all this learning, we will need some supplies. Please send in the following supplies:
1. For our math program...
Real American coins (to be returned in June), please put in a plastic bag with child's name: 20 pennies, 5 nickels, 10 dimes, 4 quarters
2. Art Smock- an old T-shirt labeled with child's name- students without a smock will do projects in art without one
3. If desired- a water bottle (labeled with your child*s name) that doesn't leak- no chilled water please, the condensation ruins papers on the desks- WATER ONLY (juice, when spilled makes a huge, sticky mess).

We share all of the following community supplies. Please do NOT label supplies on this list with your child's name:
1. 2-24 count box of crayons
2. 5 gluesticks
3. 4 black dry erase markers- low odor please, wide tip
4. 10 plain yellow pencils- presharpened, if possible
5. 2 pink pearl erasers

The students will also need to wear sneakers on the first day of school, just in case they have physical education. Your child will need a backpack large enough to carry lunch (if needed), sneakers and their daily communication folder. We also have a small snack daily if your child wants to bring one in for him/herself. Thank you.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at jstalsonberg@cssd.org anytime. I look forward to meeting you and your child and having a wonderful year together! I will be in the building on Friday, August 27 from 1-3, to meet students and their parents. Feel free to bring your supplies then. Have a great summer!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Jennifer Stalsonberg

Notes from the Classroom

2009-09-28T20:30:00.003-04:00

*Please remember no toys from home are to be brought to school.
*It is usually very warm in the classroom, so please have you child wear layered clothing so he/she can remove a layer if necessary.
*I sent a Special schedule/calendar home on Monday for your convenience.
*Sneakers for safety please!!
*Our classroom blog address is: www.mhproom218.blogspot.com
*We have a classroom Treasure Chest that students can earn a prize from for good behavior, turning in homework, etc. If you have any Happy Meal type toys that you would be interested in donating to the classroom, they would be placed in the Treasure Chest for the kids to choose from.