First Day News

There has been a change to my plan of being at school tomorrow to meet my new class. :-( I ended up at the ER on Friday afternoon, with gall stones and an appendix that was about to rupture. I had surgery yesterday morning, and came home this afternoon. Hopefully I will feel like visiting with my class later this week. Ms. Reeves will take good care of them! I can't wait to meet the class and all my parents very soon!

Welcome Back!!!

Welcome to 3rd Grade! I am so excited about my new class, and know this is going to be a great year! We will have supply drop off on Tuesday, August 9 from 7am-6pm and Friday August 12 from 7am-3pm. This is VERY helpful if you can go ahead and bring supplies before the first day. Please just make sure you put your child's name on everything, and wait about sending any money (workbook, donation, lunch) to school until the first day. Remember the school has the two required workbooks for you to purchase for $13.

As most of you know, I recently gave birth to my first baby, Cooper, on July 5. I will be taking a few weeks off at the beginning of school to spend a little more time with him. Ms. Sally Reeves will be doing my leave. She is a certified teacher, who also did her student teaching here at Mitchell, and is WONDERFUL! I have meet with her over the summer to prepare, and she is so excited and can't wait to meet the class! We will both be there the first day, and I will be back some to visit my class the first few weeks and stay involved and in contact with Ms. Reeves. My first day to return will be September 19.

Please email me, jwright@gcs.k12.al.us, at any time if you have any questions or concerns!

Cooper Bishop Wright

Cooper Bishop Wright
July 5, 2011
7 pounds, 12 ounces; 20 inches

Have a GREAT SUMMER!!!

Wow! I can hardly believe this school year is over! I think everyone would agree that this has been a GREAT year! I had 26 very special students this past year, and they will always have a place in my heart. I get so attached to your children, and do seem "lost" without seeing them, or hearing what's going on with them once they leave my class. I know they will all be very successful 4th graders. This has been a smart, caring, and fun group of students. I hope you all have a WONDERFUL summer break!!!

Last "teacher" comment - It would be VERY beneficial for students to work on those 4th grade summer packets I sent home...a little is better than none, so when they start getting bored in a few weeks...pull those out! :)

Have a fun and safe summer!!!

Love,
Mrs. Wright

Field Trip

We had a great field trip today! Our class started the day with bowling, then went to Chick-fil-A for lunch, and finished the day with a visit to Judge Olgetree's Courtroom. It was a great day...well, other than one of the other 3rd grade teachers being arrested! :-) Allen from our class was chosen to be the judge, and he sent her straight to jail! Here are some pictures from our day.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

Thank you all so much for having a SURPRISE baby shower for me!!! That was so sweet, and I appreciate it very much! All of my students did a wonderful job keeping the secret. Here are some pictures from that day.

Career Day

On Wednesday, May 11, our school had Career Day. Mrs. Coker, Abby's mom, came and spoke to the class about her job as a Physical Therapist. We REALLY enjoyed her presentation and appreciate her taking time to come share with our class about her job. We also went to Ms. Goza's class and heard about having the job of a prison guard. The students really enjoyed hearing about this job, too! For our finale, we all went out to the soccer field to see a hot air balloonist blow up his balloon, and were able to look up inside it. Unfortunately there were no rides given! ;)

Here are some pictures from Career Day...enjoy!