Indian Creek First Grade News
October 1-October 5
STAMPS and STANDARD SIZE ENVELOPES with an address!
Important Events
NO SCHOOL OCTOBER 8th-This is a student holiday (GREAT DAY to USE STATE FAIR TICKETS)
EARLY RELEASE OCTOBER 12
Please make arrangements for early release on October 12, 2018. Typically on an early release day all students go home at 11:45 am.
FALL FESTIVAL OCTOBER 12 -Come to a great evening of fun. There will be local entertainment along with games, bounce houses, a petting zoo, and much much more! Chili Cook Off with Prizes, In-Out Burger truck! PTA is now pre-selling ticket for this event! Click on tab for FALL FESTIVAL.
https://icepta.membershiptoolkit.com/Fall_festival
FIRST GRADE PLAY DATE OCTOBER 27-we love this event. We will be meeting at Spurwood Park Come and play with us from 11:00 to 12:00 on October 27th! We will be meeting rain or shine at Spurwood Park just east of Indian Creek Elementary School. It would a different playground to play on. This event will give our students a chance to meet away from school. It will also give you the chance to meet with other parents and see who your child is playing with at school. Parents must stay with their children for this event. Teachers will be their to socialize and get to see the children play.
From Ms. Jones- Read Across Indian Creek
t’s that time again, Read Across Indian Creek is BACK for Year 2!
Read Across Indian Creek
It’s time to SAVE the Date!!! Our kickoff event for Read Across Indian Creek (monthly readers) will be Thursday, October 4th. ICE monthly readers is a program dedicated to sharing the love of reading with ALL of our Falcon students! We will continue to partner with ICE families and our surrounding community to bring in readers!
https://www.smore.com/ag3r6 (this link goes to the information for the event!)
For our kickoff event for the year on Thursday, October 4th, Teachers and students are encouraged to dress as their favorite book character! Please no swords, guns, or masks!
We have a great lineup full of LISD and Carrollton “celebrities” coming to celebrate our 2nd annual event kickoff. For our November monthly readers and months to follow I will post classroom spots to Voly. Haven’t registered in Voly yet? Click this link, it’s a super easy process! https://www.lisd.net/Page/386
We can’t wait to welcome you in! Please contact me @jonesml@lisd.net with any questions or if you can point me in the right direction to some fabulous community partnerships!
Meredith Jones
Proud Assistant Principal
Indian Creek Elementary
From Coach Parker- 21-Day Challenge
The 21-day Challenge registration began on September 17th and will end this coming Monday, October 1st at midnight. Please log on to the website www.kids-teaching-kids.com to register your student.
What is the 21-Day Challenge? The 21-Day Challenge encourages students to be independently healthy by getting into the kitchen and making their own fruit and veggie snacks. We encourage families to take the challenge together while developing life-long healthy eating habits, one snack at a time! The 21-Day Challenge will start Monday, October 1st and conclude on Sunday, October 21st.
When you register you will receive an 8-digit secret code. Please save this code for future use. Also, please choose to opt-in to text message alerts when registering. Your student’s 8-digit secret code will be sent to you via text message.
Please register your student as soon as possible at www.kids-teaching-kids.com.
Happy Snacking!
Coach Parker
FROM MRS. PACHECO - RED RIBBON MONTH
Lewisville ISD is committed to spending the month of October to promote awareness and intervention of substance abuse. Campuses will still participate in Red Ribbon Week national campaign from October 23-31.
Teachers will be working with Mrs. Pacheco to deliver lessons that address: Goal Setting, Respecting Self, Problem Solving , Refusal Skills, and Coping Skills
Later in the month we will be doing Red Ribbon Week- the students may get dress up and do positive activities that will build our school community.
Medication Disposal Day: October 27, 2018, 10-2 @ FMHS, Hebron Valley ES, LHS, MHS, TCHS - for further information please visit: https://www.lisd.net/Page/1587
Parent Teacher Conferences are in OCTOBER
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
As the first report card time approaches, teachers are sending letters home to meet with you about your child's progress. Each teacher will make an appointment calendar available - either electronically or via paper. Please remember your appointment time. We will send out reminders to help you.REPORT CARD
For report cards, LISD does electronic report cards. If you should desire a paper copy, you will need to go into SKYWARD and check the box for a paper report card. Teachers will not know if you have or have not checked the box in SKYWARD.
What are we learning?
We are working on creating stamina while reading to ourselves, reading to others and working on writing, doing poetry and working on technology. We have gone over some reading strategies for reading a book, and how to hold a book. These skills are needed as we move into a workshop environment. When the students have the skill to work independently then the teacher can move into meeting with small groups of students.
We are continuing on focusing on parts of speech, we will be studying nouns. We are also working on sequencing stories. We have started regular reading groups. Your child should have reading books in a baggie to read on a nightly basis.
We will have a new list of sight words coming home on Monday-LIST 5. The words are : so, an, come, at, you. We will test on FRIDAY with Words Their Way Sorts.
Social Studies- We will be working on map skills. Students will need to know use a map key and how to draw a compass rose. With the State Fair being on a good way to help our learning is to get a map from the Fair and talk about how to navigate on it. This would be a great family lesson.
Word Work- We will be giving any new sorts out this week on Monday. We are still learning how to work the sorts here at school. A note will be attached to the sort letting you know which what the pictures are. Don't forget you can use the QR code in the corner for more practice on the words in Spelling City.
Here are video links showing how to do the sorts.
Written Sort https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6X5apoG1BqEV0JsMnRDMXpyX1E
Word Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqEVnRfampVTmxrN1U/view?usp=sharing
Picture Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqENWNKVUx3Mzg1a00/view?usp=sharing
Partner Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqERWVoMHRzSFNTV2s/view?usp=sharing
Blind Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqENmdNOHotb0h5Wms/view?usp=sharing
Math- We are finishing our unit with exploring number 1-10. Students have mastered so much in a short period of time. In our next unit we will be learning about Base Ten-counting and skip counting, while continuing with our IPS questions. We will be sending home an IPS problem on Wednesday to work on. It will be due on THURSDAY.
Video for IPS Help
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Np__RM9ke7dFpENkpHdEN1Ylk/view?usp=sharing
Science - We will be learning about the physical properties of matter. We will be using the pumpkins that you will be sending in this week as well for investigations including weight, mass, and measurement.
After School and Dismissal
If you should have to make a change please call the office at 469-713-5180. The office staff will then contact us. We are committed to teaching, we may not see your e-mail or text until after school. We will not take a verbal change from your child as to what they are doing after school. We have to have in writing any changes.
MONDAY- TUTORING for 1st grade friends who have been invited
TUESDAY-CHALLENGER CLUB (invite only) Mrs. Lewin
PACE CLUB all welcome with signed permission slip and running shoes- Coach Parker
Pick from these programs are at the back of the school by the gym for our 1st grade friends.
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Mrs. Cambere
Office 469-713-5180
Email: CambereK@LISD.net
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net