We Are Well On Our Way

Hello All! Hope this message finds you all well.

A few housekeeping items to take care of first - 

*** Please label your child's coats, backpacks, and lunch boxes.*
*** Homework is due on the Friday after you receive it. ***
*** Please let me know if your child may have hot lunch EVEN if they have brought cold lunch.***
*** Please send a change of clothes for your child. ***

We are well into week 3 of school and let me reassure you - YOUR CHILDREN ARE ROCK STARS!!! We have a very confusing schedule happening in the classroom but your children have been adapting to it very well. We have been talking quite a bit about flexibility and how important it is to be flexible because sometimes things don't go the way we think they should.

We are beginning our unit on community helpers. We have already talked about how teachers and adults in the school are helpers. We practiced saying hello to Ms. Pleau our principal and Ms. Reese our assistant principal. We are beginning to talk about police officers, fire fighters, and other first responders. I encourage you to talk with you child about all the community helpers.

Along with community helpers, we are discussing the differences between summer and fall. We learned how some people call fall, autumn. We learned that some of us like autumn and some of us don't. We are all different and that's ok. As we get into October we will begin to talk about Halloween.

We are going thru some staffing changes in the classroom. We started the year off with 2 part time people filling one full time position. That is changing to one full time position with a new person. However, the kids seem to be just flowing with the changes. 

Again, please email or call with any questions or concerns.

Happy Fall!!!

Getting to Know You

Welcome back everyone! 

I hope you all had a great restful summer and are now ready for a fabulous year. I am beyond excited for this year. I have some solid plans for your children.

Some of you know me and some of you don't. Here's a little history. While completing my Master of Arts in Special Education, I taught in the private sector and substitute taught in 6 different districts. In April of 2014 I completed my Masters program and in August of 2014 was hired in the Beaverton School District. This is my second year teaching with the Beaverton School District at McKinley. I have three children, a dog, and a cat - which I do talk about frequently. One of my goals this year is to learn a bit of family history from each of my students.

I am not the only person teaching your child throughout the day though. Our classroom has a total of 6 adults, including myself. Mrs. Suzi Beech, Mrs. Roxanne Rowe, Mrs. Deana Campbell, Mrs. Kim Clemmons, and Mrs. Becky Kamm will all be interacting with your child during the day. Let me assure you, we have the best of the best in our classroom. I am honored to work with these ladies every single day.

I will be updating this blog at LEAST every other week. This is in lieu of a website. I am still trying to set up the email so I can send one email out to all of you when I update here.  Hopefully that will happen in the first week of school! I'm hopeful!

You can locate this blog at the following address: rossettiatmckinley.blogspot.com

 You can also save this link to your tool bar for easy access to our classroom blog.

I hope to see all of you at the Back to School Night on September 10th. I will have a packet full of information for you - which hopefully will answer most of your questions. If you have any questions whatsoever, please feel free to email me at christine_rossettisagar@beaverton.k12.or.us. (I know it's long!) You can also call and leave a voice mail at my extension 3181. I check my email frequently throughout the day but my voice mail only after school. Certainly if it is an emergency, the office will ring the classroom immediately.