Miss Lessner's Classroom News
May 8-12
Weekly Updates
Drop Off:
Please have your child at school on time. If you arrive late to school you'll have to get a tardy pass. The children can come in at 7:50 am and are considered tardy after 8:05 am.
When your child is late they do not have enough time to eat their breakfast as we are to start our day by 8:15am. Please have your child on time to school. There are MORE kids who are LATE, they need to eat still. Please have your child to school so they have enough time to eat and then be ready to start the day without rushing.
Pick Up:
Please be on time to pick up your children from school at 2:50pm.
Every Wednesday is a half day and we will dismiss by 11:45-11:50am.
Not Feeling Well?
If your child isn't feeling well and has a runny nose and a cough please keep them at home until they are feeling better. Please call them off so they get an excused absence.
Masks
If you send your child with a mask or expect them to wear the mask all day please speak to them about this. I am tired of asking them to put them on, they wear them around their wrists, under their chins or take them off and they end up on the floor.
We have several children who are sick, coughing, runny noses and they won't wear their mask or don't have a mask.
Please help me with this, the weather is changing and we will be having more kids getting sick, we all need to stay healthy. The next few weeks are going to be busy and hectic and the kids will probably have runny noses and will be coughing.
WE ARE NOW IN 4TH QUARTER.
It is very hard for me to think there are only 24 days left starting on Monday, May 8th. We are NOT slowing down the pace is going to increase so that we get everything covered. The spelling words are going to get harder, Fundations skills are also getting harder, the weekly stories and tests are going to get more difficult too.
Please practice at home so that the children stay on top of the skills.
I can not say it enough but there are so many kids loosing points weekly for NOT doing their HW or turning their packets in.
These points are very important and there are several students who's grades have gone down because of the HW.
Please continue to practice ALL the sight words we've done because there will be a BIG TEST in MAY on Units 1-5 for sight words.
READING
We are now in Unit 5
Our Question is :What are the seasons like around the world?
We will work on Transitions and Conjunctions and Suffixes -er and -or
We will read the decodable story: The Salior
Spelling words:
high
light
sight
night
might
flight
fright
bright
once
does
water
wash
upon
These words are going to be difficult please study!!!
We will have a test every FRIDAY and will come home in the weekly homework. Please practice the words at home too so that your child does well on the spelling test. The more repetition and practice the better!!!
On Monday, Your child will bring home Unit 5's Spelling words. This is the last unit we will do in First Grade. PLEASE PRACTICE THESE WORDS EVERYNIGHT!!! THEY ARE GETTING MORE DIFFICULT.
The video below is something we sing everyday Who Let the A Out everyday to reinforce the letters and sounds.
The Heidi songs below are the sight word songs we do everyday to help with the spelling of the words. Please listen at home.
Fundations
In Unit 12 we introduce students to words that have more than 1 syllable when the word is read. We will scoop each syllable when the word is read.
We will work on multisyllabic words for the next 3 weeks. Some words will be compound words example: sun fish- sun is a word and fish is a word.
This will be tricky for them. We will practice a lot.
NEW VIDEO BELOW OF THE NEW SKILLS! OUR TEST WILL BE THIS Week with the new skills!
Math
We will work with addition and subtraction and introduce the quarter and dollar bill. We will work with addition/subtraction during our Number corner time.
After break we are going to be going full force to get everything covered. Things are getting more difficult and some are having a hard time keeping up. Please practice the spelling words each night, read our stories and go over math strategies.
Homework
Every Friday your child's homework packet is DUE and if it is not turned in on FRIDAY it's considered LATE/ They will receive 0 points UNLESS YOU WERE ABSENT FRI YOU CAN STILL TURN IT IN ON MONDAY FOR FULL CREDIT.
We are in 4th quarter now so these points are very important to your child's grades.
There are several people NOT doing the WEEKLY HOMEWORK this is an extension of things we do everyday and great practice for them. Please take the time to sit and do this with your child. Please always practice the spelling words. I will NOT grade the homework everyday, there is not time to do this I will collect ALL HW PACKETS from the folders and grade them over the weekend and they will be returned MONDAY.
There are a lot of test that are taken on Friday's also, so please practice the spelling words and read the story every week that is sent home in the home work.
There are many of you that are NOT checking your child's backpacks or folders each night.
I need you to do this everyday as there important things coming home and you are not seeing them or reading.
Please clean the folders out every weekend so they are empty as we start a new week with more stuff.
We will be taking our MAP TEST in May 15-24. We NEED EVERYONE TO BRING A PAIR OF HEADPHONES FOR THE TEST.
Students of the Month:
March - Jose Vasquez
April- Lilliana Schauer
Supplies
WE REALLY NEED THESE THINGS!!!
WE ARE IN NEED OF MORE TISSUES ESPECIALLY SINCE THE KIDS HAVE RUNNY NOSES, GLUE STICKS.
Please send some more of these supplies in so we can stay healthy and prevent the spread of germs.
We have reviewed the rules this week and the students know the expectations for the end of the year and what they will loose if they are being disrespectful and not following the school expectations.
We are having some difficulty with some behaviors in our classroom. There are several students who are disrespectful to me and others with the words they say, or rolling their eyes , throwing a tantrums when they do not get their way. Theses people will be loosing out on FUN things we will be doing, they will sit out and watch and will not be able to participate in the activities that we will be doing. This is going to hurt them very much, please speak to your child about expectations and what is going to happen. I have told hem, they think I am joking.
I am not going to reward ANYONE who is NOT doing what is EXPECTED and is causing learning in my room to NOT OCCUR because they are not following school expectations!!!
I love having your children in my class and look forward to a wonderful year together!!!
If you ever have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Miss Lessner's Contact Info
Email: alessner@hsdist157.org
Website: hsdist157.org
Location: Hoover Elementary School
Phone: 708 862- 4230 113