Garage Sale

Our School will be hosting a community garage sale this month.  You can rent a space in our parking lot and on the day of the garage sale, sale your stuff.  You get to keep the money you earn that day.

What a great way to help out our school, get rid of your old things, make a little money, and get involved in the community.

Contact the school office for more details.

Over in the Meadow by John Langstaff

Over in the Meadow
This Old Man
This Old Man

Harvest Festival

Our Harvest Festival (or Harvest Fest for short) will be on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 during the day.  What is a Harvest Fest?  Well, just think of the Spring Fiesta we had last year in May.  The Harvest Fest will be a lot like the Spring Fiesta only it will be in the Fall instead of the Spring.

Mark this day on your calendars and invite your family and friends.  It will be during the school day just like the Spring Fiesta.  How fun!

Candy Drive

We will be having a Fall Festival next month (more information on the Fall Festival will be on my blog next week).  In preparation for the Fall Festival we are asking for CANDY donations.  Mr. Parker has rewards for the classes who bring in the most CANDY.

Bring your favorite CANDY because whatever CANDY we collect will be the CANDY we distribute at the different booths at the Fall Festival!

The CANDY drive starts on October 1, 2012.  Don't bring the CANDY before Monday, October 1st.  After that, you can bring as much CANDY as you want, bring it to your teacher and wait until October 31st when we distribute the CANDY to the whole school at the Fall Festival.

About Mrs. Gardner

I am a highly qualified teacher, graduating from Northern Arizona University in 1999 with a degree in Elementary Education and an emphasis in Early Childhood (birth to 8 years old).  I taught 2nd grade for 6 years from 2000-2006.  Then I taught 1st grade and then 3rd grade.

In 2009 I began working at Liberty Traditional Charter School as the computer teacher. 

On a more personal note, I was born in California and am the oldest of 5 children.  We moved to Northeast Phoenix when I was a freshman in high school.  My husband and I were married in 2008.  Last year our daughter was born into our little family.  Most of our family lives in Phoenix.

I am looking forward to working with your students.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask.

SEI and Mainstream Classrooms

In order for us to follow state mandates we needed to put all ELL students in K-2 grades in an SEI classroom.  Proficient and English speaking students need to be in a mainstream classroom. 

In order to accomadate the massive numbers a 1st grade/2nd grade SEI combo class was created.  Mrs. Soto is teaching this class.  She will be teaching the ELP Standards for 1st and 2nd grades.  This is not a demotion for the 2nd graders.  It is just a way we created in order to not overload the 2nd grade and 1st grade SEI classes.  The 2nd graders will continue to learn the 2nd grade curriculum and the 1st graders will continue to learn the 1st grade curriculum.

A Kindergarten/1st grade mainstream class was also created.  There were only 13 proficient and English students in 1st grade.  They were combined with 7 kindergarteners.  This was done so as to not overburden the mainstream kindergarten class.  This class was moved to the kindergarten campus but it is not a demotion for these 1st graders.  The first graders will be taught the 1st grade standards and the kindergarteners will be taught the kindergarten standards.

Due to the difficulty finding the right highly qualified early childhood certified teacher for this position I have agreed to teach this class so that we can be in compliance with state regulations.

Such a Cutie

Labor Day

I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend.  This is a day when we can rest from our labors and enjoy our families.  


What do you want to be when you grow up?  You can be anything you want to be, you just need to work hard and do your best.  Click here to find out what kind of job you might like to have when you grow up.  It will give you some ideas of what you can do now to prepare for your future.

Learn the History of Labor Day by clicking on this link.

Here are some Labor Day Games:

What's My Job?

Labor Day Jigsaw Puzzle

Labor Day Online Coloring Sheets

Online Labor Day Word Search

You can read stories about different people and their jobs.  If you can't read, that's okay, you can click the listen button you can hear someone read the story to you.  You learn about veterinarians, firefighters, pizza makers, and many more.  Click here to read or listen to the stories.

Too Tired To Eat

365

It has been 365 days since Hannah's birth.  Since this was a leap year and we had an extra day in February she won't turn 1 year old until tomorrow, on the 366th day of her birth.

Her birthday is tomorrow but her party is on Saturday.  I'll post pictures for those of you who are interested.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH!

PICTURE DAY

Thursday, August 23, 2012 is picture day.  Don't forget to bring your smiles!  Dress nice.  Everyone has to get their picture taken but not everyone has to buy a picture package.  If you want a picture package, don't forget your money.

The Little Darling

Computer Teacher

As the first full week comes to a close, you should all know by now that I am not the computer teacher this year.  I am still at the school but now I am SEI Coordinator.  That means I will be working with the ELL (English Language Learner) Students (those who need help learning English).

Yes! I am going to miss being your computer teacher but I am still around campus and I will still see you all.  I enjoyed being your computer teacher.  I still have my blog and I plan on adding more games and stuff for you to play.  I plan on adding a new post every week so check it often.  In a few weeks I'll be changing my background, too!

Mrs. Frappier is the new computer teacher.  She is nice.  Treat her with respect.  If there are any problems, know that you can let me know.  There shouldn't be any problems just so long as you treat her and the lab with respect just like there weren't any problems when you treated me and the lab with respect.

Change is always difficult but it is not always bad.  Change is different.  Have patience during this transitional period.

Now, with my new role as the SEI Coordinator I will be able to spend more time with my little girl.  She is almost 1 years old now.  She misses me so much when I am gone, and I miss her.

I am very excited to start this new position.

Getting Teeth

Welcome Back

School is in session again.  I hope you all do well in your classes. Work hard and do your best for your teachers.  I will continue to add pictures of Hannah and I will add more games to my blog.  Have a great year!

More Pictures

She's Getting So Big!

Walking already??

Summer Updates

I know many of you want to know how my daughter is doing and you want to see updated pictures of her.  I'll be adding some more new pictures every week until school starts!

We moved this summer so things have been really busy for us packing and unpacking.

I can hardly believe summer is almost over.  I have enjoyed being a Mommy full time and I will miss my daughter when I go back to work in August.

See you all August 8th when school starts again.

Mrs. Gardner

Next Week

Next week some of you will begin being graded on your typing speed. Here are the typing speed goals for each class. You will be tested using Typing Lesson 30.

3rd grade - 5 wpm

4th grade - 10 wpm

5th grade - 15 wpm

6th grade - 20 wpm

7th grade - 25 wpm

8th grade - 30 wpm

wpm = words per minute

words per minute = the number of words you can type correctly in one minute

More Typing

In a few weeks you will be tested on how accurately you can type. Make sure you keep your fingers on the home row when you are not using them. Make sure you type the write keys with the correct finger.

Typing Lessons

I hope you all did well on AIMS and Stanford 10 this week.

We will now be focusing on our typing skills.

Do you want to see another picture of Hannah?

AIMS week

Good luck to everyone this week as you take your tests. See you next week in the computer lab.

More Acuity this week

Next week is AIMS. We won't have computer class next week.

Here is another picture of my darling.

Acuity

We are still working on Acuity. Doing your best on the study materials will better prepare you for AIMS in a few weeks.

For those of you interested, here is another picture of my little Hannah.

You Asked, Here They Are

Some of you have requested to see more pictures of baby Hannah. So, here they are. Enjoy.

If you missed the ones before, here are some links to click on to see some more.

Pictures when she is 1 week old
Pictures when she is 1 month old
Some more pictures 4 months and younger


. . Four Months Old . . . . In her swing .. .She likes looking at books.


. . . Halloween . . .. . .3 1/2 months olds . . . . .. . on her tummy


in her bumbo seat . . . . 24 weeks old

Acuity Award - Voting

Click on this link to vote for what you would like to do if your lines go up on the C tests.