Please see the attached newsletter. Thank you!

Dear Room 120 Families, It is hard to believe we have been at work for 5 weeks in 1st grade. I am very happy to see my students using leadership language and skills throughout the day. We are working on Leadership/Citizenship in Social Studies. They are learning many important words: cooperation, responsibility, proactive behavior, proactive choices and more. We are working on learning and practicing The Golden Rule, too. There are times throughout the week that we need to stop and regroup to review the expectations of the class. So many are remembering with these review/reminders but some are having difficulties applying some aspects of leadership. If your child talks about a refocus sheet, please remember that I am working on redirecting and improving their ability to make proactive choices. If they have get a refocus sheet it is to be considered a tool to help make changes toward leadership abilities. Our unit this week in Language Arts is Where We LIve . If you have a family photo of a place in Sacramento or California (even places in America your child has visited) that you would like to share I would truly appreciate if you could send it to me via email. I think it is great for your students to make connections between their personal experiences and topics at school. I hope you were able to get onRaz-Kids at home. Here is the information just in case you weren’t able to get on last week. Please let me know if you are having trouble. www.raz-kids.com KID’S LOGIN (big green button on right) TEACHER USER NAME: kmattern0 Your child knows his/her password code. He/she will click his/her name, click on password picture A quick reminder: If you would like to order books from Scholastic the deadline for this order was today but I can extend it one more day if you’d like to get online tonight or tomorrow during the day. 1. Go online to: scholastic.com/newparent Look up my name: Mrs. Mattern Or enter our Class Code QT8Q6 Follow the instructions to place your order online by: 9/05/2017(extended through tomorrow night) Thank you for taking time to read the message each week!

Dear Room 120 Families, First grade continues to be busy, busy! Last week each child got an opportunity to use their Chrome Books. They are using a reading site called Raz-Kids and a math site, Zearn. Zearn is connected to our math curriculum, Eureka. Every lesson I teach in math can be practiced on Zearn. In class we are on M1L10 (Module 1- Lesson 10) Most will work quickly through lessons 1-10 as soon as they are consistently working on Zearn. This week they will be visiting Zearn as a station during our daily math rotations. I am sending login cards for Zearn. Please look for it in your child’s backpack. Raz-Kids allows for Listening to Reading during Daily 5 rotations. I entered each child’s reading level in order to have the book selection match their reading level. You will see a letter level that correlates to our number level. I have added a level chart at the bottom of this document to help you to know your child’s reading level. I will be using Raz-Kids for reading practice in specific skill lessons, too. Here are directions to access Raz-Kids at home: www.raz-kids.com KID’S LOGIN (big green button on right) TEACHER USER NAME: kmattern0 Your child knows his/her password code. He/she will click his/her name, click on password picture Online reading sites are great but I still want to see each child reading tangible books each day. During Read to Self in Daily 5 the children have books galore to read. I know many of you have a lot of books for you child and some of you frequent the library. I am always willing to send a book bag home with your child. Your child may read each book at his/her own pace then bring the bag back for a refill! I also have a Scholastic Book Club account that allows you to order books for reasonable prices. Of course, this is optional. Two ways to order: 1. Check off the books you want to order for your child and return this flyer to me with a check to Scholastic Book Clubs 9/01/2017 2. Go online to: scholastic.com/newparent Look up my name: Mrs. Mattern Or enter our Class Code QT8Q6 Follow the instructions to place your order online by: 9/05/2017 Age RazKids DRA 4 - 6 A A-1 4 - 6 A A-1 4 - 6 B 2 4 - 6 C 3-4 Beginning Of 1st goal D 6 6 - 7 E 8 6 - 7 F 10 6 - 7 G 12 6 - 7 H 14 6 - 7 I 16 End of 1st Goal 6 - 8 J 18 7 - 8 J 18 For Matey Students and Families: Week of August 28th, 2017 • It is going to be hot this week! We encourage parents to send a labeled water bottle to school for kids. Although water is provided, a personal water bottle really helps when conditions are this hot. We will keep an eye on weather. If conditions are unsafe, we will move kids indoors for recess. We anticipate morning recess being okay for the kids. • Movie Night Friday, September 1: Boss Baby! We will be having our first Family Movie Night this Friday at 6 PM in the gym! Please join us for some family time. (All students must be accompanied by an adult.) Please see attached flyer for more information. • Labor Day: School will be closed on Monday, September 4th. • Hope you're having a 'smooth"ie transition back to school! Be sure to visit Edible Arrangements to get your "Back to School" smoothie for $1.99! See attached flyer for more information. • Yearbooks for 2017-18 are available! Get a head start on buying your yearbook at $20 before the price jumps to $25! You can buy them online or complete the form to turn into the front office at https://natomasunified.org/np3e/matey-adventures/yearbooks/.

Dear Room 120 Familes, Today was an exciting day for our Mateys! KCRA was here to capture us viewing the eclipse for the news! Before going out we made a model of the eclipse process (some made a circle to be the sun, the moon or earth) Ask your child which he/she represented. Today we worked on quiet transitions and working in small groups independently for math and reading. Independent work allows me to work with small groups at their level. They are doing well learning the procedures for independent work time. Please refer to the newsletter sent last week to keep you aware of our weekly plan. The Unhomework choices will be added to the back of the newsletter this week. I will attach the Back to School slide show to this email. If you have further questions please email me. Sincerely, Mrs. Mattern For Matey Students and Families: Week of August 21st, 2017 • Action Teams: This week students will be completing their application for Action Teams in their classroom. A great conversation starter could be asking them which action team they are applying for and why. • Parent volunteers for Action Teams: At Back to School Night parents had the opportunity to volunteer their time to help with action teams! If you didn't get a chance to sign up, please use the following link to do so. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemjJgBjVv75FUvISr7EOIQ-_dXHgbe0qAQUU5OM0CL0BkaAA/viewform?usp=sf_link • Yearbooks for 2017-18 are available! Get a head start on buying your yearbook at $20 before the price jumps to $25! You can buy them online or complete the form to turn into the front office at https://natomasunified.org/np3e/matey-adventures/yearbooks/.

We sure did have a great morning today! Starting the day off with Morning Meeting is a wonderful way to build a positive classroom community. We continue to learn about one another through sharing and through instruction regarding our procedures and expectations. Today we learned more about Habit 1: Be Proactive. Your 1st graders are learning about responsibility, integrity, trust, determination, kindness, positive choices and much more. We are practicing STOP! THINK! GO! STOP and get control of your emotions and movements. THINK of possible choices that are above the line (Democracy and Cooperation) GO with the proactive choice. They are understanding and it helps our day to run more smoothly. SNACKS- Unfortunately, some snacks are being taken by others outside of our class. The best solution to this is to have our snack basket in our room instead of in the cafeteria. Starting tomorrow I would like your child to bring their snack to class and put it in our snack basket. It would be best if the snack had your child’s name on it. They will still put their lunch boxes in the large bin in the cafeteria. I am looking forward to sharing classroom information at Back to School Night this Thursday. Please see attachments for more times. For Matey Students and Families: Week of August 14th, 2017 STORM: STORM has opened up a 6 week option! Please see attached flyer to get more information. Back to School Night - Thursday, August 17th 6:00 - 7:30 PM. Please join us to learn what your student will be working on this year as a Matey! The attached flyer has additional information. A hard copy of this flyer will also be sent home with your student. Yearbooks for 2017-18 are available! Get a head start on buying your yearbook at $20 before the price jumps to $25! You can purchase them online at https://natomasunified.org/np3e/matey-adventures/yearbooks/ or complete the attached form to pay on campus! (The form will also be coming home in this week's Friday Folder!) Parking: please be mindful that we share our parking lot with other retail businesses and we want to be good neighbors! Please do not park in front of retail storefronts. Reminder: drop off for children starts at 7:55. Please do not drop your students off before that unless they are attending BASE. Also, if you need to get inside the building please sign in at the front! As a safety precaution, we need to know who is on our campus.

Dear 120 Families, Last week was a fantastic first week of 1st grade! Our students are learning about The 7 Habits, behavior levels and much more. I am reviewing and practicing procedures with our class to help the learning day to run smoothly. If you would ask your child about ABOVE level behaviors that they see and do it would be a great way for them to share part of their day. Cooperation has been a key word for our first five days and will continue to be a focus. We will be reviewing The 7 Habits of Leaders this week and in the next few weeks. Each week I will send home a folder on Friday with a newsletter, papers from the school and corrected work. Please empty this folder and send it back to school on the following Monday. The newsletter that Mrs. Draper and I send home each Friday will help you to know what we are focusing on each week in class. Please dress your child in closed toed shoes each day for safety. On Monday and Wednesday each week our class has PE. Tennis shoes are preferred for PE on these days. You will receive Matey Messages each week via email. They are messages regarding whole school activities. The messages are listed below. Each email I send you will be on our website, too. In order to find my website please do the following: 1. Go to website np3k5.com 2. Pull down Teacher Sites 3. Find Karen McCoole (I will try to get this changed) 4. On Mrs. Mattern’s site (After clicking KMcCoole my name magically is correct) 5. Click on My Class One more very important note! THANK YOU for the supplies. We are already using them! Have a wonderful week. Sincerely, Mrs. Mattern For Matey Students and Families: Week of August 7th, 2017 • After School Activities: Be sure to check out our After School Activities! Sign ups for BASE (Before and After School Explorer's), STORM, Let's Get Moovin', Firefly Art, Early Engineers and Honey Code are either available or will be soon! Please check our "After School Activities" tab on our website for sign up information! https://natomasunified.org/np3e/parents/after-school-programs/ • Back to School Night - Thursday, August 17th 6:00 - 7:30 PM. Please join us to learn what your student will be working on this year as a Matey! The attached flyer has additional information. A hard copy of this flyer will also be sent home with your student. • Parking: please be mindful that we share our parking lot with other retail businesses and we want to be good neighbors! Please do not park in front of retail storefronts. • Reminder: drop off for children starts at 7:55. Please do not drop your students off before that unless they are attending BASE. Also, if you need to get inside the building please sign in at the front! As a safety precaution, we need to know who is on our campus.

I SENT THIS VIA EMAIL YESTERDAY BUT WANTED TO RESEND WITH THE MATEY MESSAGES Dear Room120 Families, We are wrapping up the last days of school with some fun activities. Each day there is a special activity that will be woven through our work day. Below is a list of activities. There are only two days that the children will be needing to bring something in for the special event day. Thursday is Game Day. On that day your child may bring in a board game or card game that they enjoy and are willing to share. Please do not include electronic games. On Friday we are walking to Kokomo Park for Field Day. They will need to bring their permission slip before Friday in order to walk with us to the park. I will be sending home classwork and art work on Thursday. On Friday your child will receive his/her progress report for the year. Tuesday: Go Noodle Day Every 20 minutes we will take a break from working and move to the fun, silly songs and dances that Go Noodle is famous for! Wednesday: Arts and Crafts Day After recess students will be able to use their imagination as they create with construction paper, stickers, paint and other arts supplies Thursday: Game Day Bring in board games, card games and puzzles to share with classmates. Friday: Field Day This has been a great first year for NP3E and I am very happy that your child and I were a part of a special 1st year in 1st grade at our fabulous school! Enjoy the rest of your 3-day weekend! Sincerely, Mrs. Mattern! T THIS VIA EMAIL LAST NIGHT BUT WANTED TO ADD THE MATEY MESSAGES WEEK OF MAY 30TH - ANNOUNCEMENTS • Yearbooks will be delivered to your student on Tuesday by their teacher. • Minimum Day Thursday and Friday - students will be released at 12:15! This is different from our normal minimum day release time. Please make note of this. • 5th Grade Promotion is on Thursday, June 1st at 5 PM. It will be held on the NP3 Middle and High School Campus; 3700 Del Paso Road. • Field Day June 2: Important information! Each student will be given a slice of cheese or pepperoni pizza for lunch and there will be juice and water for all of the students. While at the park there will be games for them to play. Please be sure to send your student to school with sunblock already on. All students get dropped off at school and we will be walking to the park. You may pick your child up from the park at 11:30. There will be a sign out sheet there with your student's teacher. • Volunteer help needed for Field Day!!!: We are looking for volunteers to help us in the following ways: walking the children over to the park, help with games, food and supervision at the park, and help walking the students back. If you are able to help please let your student's teacher know. • We were able to raised $1,200 from our Dental Day fundraiser! (See attached flyer for more information.) Thank you so much to the families who participated. We can't wait to see what we can raise next year!

It is hard to believe we have less than three weeks left in our first year at NP3E! Please read about Leadership Day and Field Day in the Matey Messages below. Thank you! WEEK OF MAY 15TH- ANNOUNCEMENTS • Leadership Day: Join us as we showcase all of our student's hard work with The Leader in Me this year! Leadership Day will be this Thursday, May 18th from 8:45 AM - 10:45 AM. We will start with a continental breakfast, spend an hour touring our school, learning about our student's Action Teams and learning about The 7 Habits! Be sure to register here: www.np3k5.com/leader-in-me. Please see the attached flyer! • Tutoring: The last day for our Tuesday tutoring sessions is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 16th! • Field Day June 2: 1st - 5th graders will be celebrating the end of the school year at Kokomo Park (4901 Kokomo Drive) from 8:15 AM - 11:30 AM. We would LOVE volunteers! Please see the attachment to find out more information on how you can help make your student's last day of school a celebration to remember. • Yearbooks: They will be delivered to your student's teacher the last week of school. We are almost out of stock! Be sure to purchase your yearbook. You will be able to purchase online until May 25th!! You can secure your yearbook online by using this link: http://shop.balfour.com/smi134454/catalog/category/view/s/yearbook-and-accessories/id/312795/.