Spring Cleaning

Today we had some time for spring cleaning where our classroom looks very different.... and somewhat empty!

As a note to parents, at Frontier there have been a couple of students found with head lice. To make sure that we are doing everything to avoid the spread, students are going to keep their coats in their backpacks when they get to school. Additionally, students are not going to share coats, hats, brushes, or other personal items with one another. All of the carpets, pillows, and blankets from my classroom are removed now (hence why things look somewhat empty!) and so that will help lessen the spread of lice as much as possible. I even got a new teacher chair that is plastic instead of fabric to give the little creatures less of an opportunity to like our classroom. Adult head lice generally will not survive more than 24 hours off of their human host so our spring cleaning is a preventative measure to make sure the lice have nothing to hang onto. If you are looking for more information on symptoms, treatments and more, log onto www.headlice.org to get more detailed information.

Today students have a lot of work to finish that is due tomorrow, however, students were given at least 30 minutes every day to work on the assignments and many students are done with them all. The things that are due tomorrow are the spelling contract (and you have a spelling test tomorrow so study hard!), the hard and soft c packet, the women's suffrage map packet, and the squiggle writing. As I have mentioned before, we are getting ready for fourth grade so expectations are higher than they were at the beginning of the year. I know ALL of these students are capable of meeting and exceeding these expectations as long as they are working to their fullest abilities. Students working to their highest potential is all I can ever ask for!

Have great evenings, work hard, and get ready for tomorrow with a little surprise! :)