First Grade Weekly News
Week of January 10 - 13
Reminders
This Week...
January 10 - First day back
No homework due to short week.
General
- With it getting colder please send students with a jacket to school. Please make sure their names are in them.
- Please check and sign your child's agenda nightly.
- Students must bring agendas and take home folders to and from school everyday.
- Whenever there is a transportation change it MUST be hand written in their agenda.
- Library- Please make sure your child brings their library books back to exchange for new books.
- Please bring in a snack and water bottle daily, even if they are buying a school lunch.
- When your class starts bringing iPad home, please make sure you charge them nightly and return them to school each day.
- Excuse notes must be submitted within 2 days of your child's return to school.
- If your child is absent for sickness or a trip, they will receive missed work when they return to school. This is a schoolwide policy.
- The courtyard is open. You can come and eat lunch with your child. Check with your teacher for your classroom lunch time.
Homework
- Short Week - No Homework
What we are learning...
ELA
We will be reviewing reading skills and connecting them with winter themes. We will be reading some Jan Brett books.
Math
We will be reviewing skills we have learned.
Fundations
We will be learning about glued "welded" sounds ( ang, ing, ong, ung) ( ank, ink, onk, ung)
We have covered the following sounds / skills.
- short vowels, consonants, Digraphs ( th, wh, ck, sh, ch), bonus letters (l, f, s), glued sounds ( all, an, am) and the suffix -s ( action words and more than one).
Heggerty
Here are parent letters about what we are working on.
Lunch Reminders
Breakfast $1.50 Lunch $3.00
Money can be added to students accts. by using the linq app (student number will be needed).
If you send in (cash/check) with your child, please put it in a zip-lock bag with their name on it.
Dates to Remember
January 10 - First day back to school
January 10 - Kids Heart Challenge Kick off during PE
January 15 - MLK Holiday, No School
January 17 - Report Cards go home
January 22 - Mid year reading assessments
January 25 - Mid year math assessments.
Through-out the month of January we will be doing reading, writing and math mid year assessments.