Mrs. Anderson's News
Letter Writing Project
Please remember to ask two people to send a letter or package to your child at school soon. If the person can send some kind of item that is significant to the state or country they are from, the kids love that! Please have them send their package or letter to:
Van Elementary School
902 E. Washington Street
Rensselaer, IN 47978
Attn: Mrs. Anderson & your child's name
Mini Walking Field Trip
I like to provide the kids with authentic audiences to share their work with. We have done some research on cicadas and have created fact books about them. We have also worked on some poetry that the kids would like to teach to Mrs. Muzek's first grade class. We will be walking to the Primary on a day next week or the following week when the weather is nice. Please let me know if you do not feel comfortable having your child walk to the Primary.
Upcoming Events
Monday, September 5th - Labor Day - No School
Thursday, September 8th - 8th Grade Science Buddies visit our classroom
Thursday, September 8th - Kindness Challenge Convocation in the gym
Kind Classroom
Each month, teachers are asked to nominate one student from each classroom that best exemplifies the character trait of the month. I asked Mr. Wynn if I could nominate my whole class, but he said that wasn't allowed. :(
I'm happy to announce that between my nomination and the nominations from the specials teachers, we ended up with 5 kids from our room that won the 3rd grade kindness award!