October 6th - 10th

 

1st GRADE FIELD TRIP 

OCTOBER 7th

9:30 - 12:30

to

HUNT'S FAMILY FARM

The kids will need to be in school uniform and make sure to send a jacket!!

We are asking for a $8.00 donation to cover the cost of the buses and entrance fee.  If we don't get enough to cover the costs this could be cancelled.  Pay at the office or online.

Thank you to those who signed up to help with a group of children.  If you are not one of the parent volunteers and want to join us at the Farm you are welcome to do that, you will need to pay your entrance fee.  Parents riding the bus with us will need to pay the office as we will make one payment when we arrive.  Make sure you have signed the permission form and filled out what your child will want for lunch that day.  We will miss our normal lunch time so we will get the sack lunches to eat in our classrooms!!

This brings us to the end of UNIT 1!  Smart Start and Unit 1 will be graded for 1st term!  This would be a great time to REVIEW these words with your child!!

r-blends /kr/, /dr/, /fr/, /gr/, /tr/, and s-blends /sm/, /sn/, /sp/, /st/, /sw/.

OCTOBER 13TH & 14TH (Early Out both days)

If you haven't already, please SIGN UP HERE for a time to come in with your child and visit with me!

OCTOBER 15TH - 17TH

September 29th - October 3rd

 

1st GRADE FIELD TRIP 

OCTOBER 7th

9:30 - 12:30

to

HUNT'S FAMILY FARM

We are asking for a $8.00 donation to cover the cost of the buses and entrance fee.  If we don't get enough to cover the costs this could be cancelled.  Pay at the office or online.

Thank you to those who signed up to help with a group of children.  If you are not one of the parent volunteers and want to join us at the Farm you are welcome to do that, you will need to pay your entrance fee.  Parents riding the bus with us will need to pay the office as we will make one payment when we arrive.  Make sure you have signed the permission form and filled out what your child will want for lunch that day.  We will miss our normal lunch time so we will get the sack lunches to eat in our classrooms!!

    PERMISSION FORM AND LUNCH CHOICE

OCTOBER 13TH & 14TH

If you haven't already, please SIGN UP HERE for a time to come in with your child and visit with me!

 

It's time to sign up for PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES!! 

October 13th and 14th

Those will be Early Out days and I will begin conferences at 1:40.

Please sign up for a time to come into Room 110 with your child and visit with me for a few moments!

I've loved hearing how so many of you are working with your child on the Math Book at home!  Right now we are exploring different strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems.  A skill that they will be using for the rest of their lives!! 

September 15th - 19th

 

Bringing a stuffed animal on Friday was a great reward after working really hard on adjusting to being a 1st grader with all the new responsibilities and expectations that come with First Grade!  It was also fun to READ TO A FRIEND!  A great idea to do at home as well!!

You will know begin to see the Home/School Folders will be the same week after week.  The papers you need to help your child with will be in the front.  Use these papers with the 20 minutes of reading that are required each night.  Make sure they can read all the reading passages that are highlighted with the sound we learned the week before.  Read them everyday for the next week, this will help with reading fluency!  New High Frequency Words come home each week.  These aren't "memorize" words.  We don't "sound" these words out.  Have your child READ THE WORD & SPELL THE WORD.  Keep the cards from week to week and review them!  The "Fast and Fluent" page gives spelling words using the sound we are focusing on for the week ... these words can be sounded out and then write each letter matching the sound they hear to complete the word!  The time you spend with your child at home will greatly benefit them as we BECOME FLUENT READERS this year!!  Please CLEAN OUT the papers in the folder before returning it the following week!!

You are welcome to have your child work in their math books at home!  You can either work on the same lessons we are working for the week ... or go back to the week before to see if your child was able to pick up on the skill we spent the past week working on!!  For some these first lessons are easy - but for others they will need some additional support to get this foundation!  It will always be helpful for a child to get some one-on-one help!!