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Au g u s t 2 8 , 2 0 1 2 Volume 1, Issue 1

Teacher Background Info

Mrs. Lombardos Classroom Newsletter

Hello! My name is, Mrs. Lombardo. I have excellent parents and one-amazing big brother. I had a great childhood growing up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 2006, I graduated from McKeesport Area High School. After high school, I pursued a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Education with a Certification in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education from graduated in May 2010. I had such a pleasurable experience at Cal U that the decision to attend the university again was an easy one. I returned to earn my Maters in Education with a Certification in Reading Specialist, and

Students will need to be able to describe and identify characters in a story.

Reading and Writing Skills

Students will need to be able to write sentences that start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. The sentence will have a telling part and an action part.

Spelling Words
1. flag 2. fin 3. ran 4. has 5. fill 6. sat 7. list 8. sit 9. bag 10. win

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Robust Vocabulary 1. flag 6. sat

2. 1. 3. 2. 4. 3. 5. 4. fin dangerous ran style has ignore fill passion 7. list 5.heed 8. sit 6. challenge 9. bag 7. underestimate 10. win 8. proficient

graduated in August of 2011. On August 6, 2011, I married my best friend. I have been working in this school for three years. I am excited to start the year off and get to know my new students. We will be working hard this year to learn many exciting new things. If you need to contact me, please feel free to call me at (412) 758-8365 ext 123. You can also email me at rlombardo@gmail.com .

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This Weeks Assignments

This week in Science we will be studying animals, including dinosaurs and pets. Children will be required to complete an science report on the animal of their choice by next Wednesday morning. Our trip to the zoo on Thursday may inspire some creative choices! We will also work on matching numbers with their number words and skip counting by twos.

This Weeks Highlights

Monday Today we are learning about dinosaurs. Tuesday Today we are learning about pets. Wednesday Today we are learning how to skip count by twos. Thursday Today we are going on a field trip to the zoo. Friday Today we have a special guest from the fire department to tell us about fire safety.

Reminders to Students
Bring money for field trip lunch Bring umbrella in case it rains Think of a costume for Fridays

Upcoming Events
Classroom Open House Tuesday, September 6, 7:30 P.M. Ice Cream Social with the Faculty Friday, September 9, 5 P.M. School Assembly This week's school assembly is on storybook characters. Children may dress up like a character on Thursday. (You might want to bring a change of clothes for the rest of the day.) Costumes can be as simple as a hat or a small picture of your character pinned to your shirt. Have fun.

assembly

Reminders to Parents
Your child will need the following supplies this year: 1. backpack 2. 3 spiral notebooks 3. 1 box of pencils 4. erasers 5. rulers 6. compass 7. lunch box

Thank You Students!

Special thanks are due the following students: Jay for volunteering to clean up after the fall open house. Kari for donating her checkers set to recess. Alan for baking us his grandmother's chocolate chip cookies last week. Thank you also to Ms. Brown for bringing in the travel posters to decorate for open house.