First Grade Weekly News
Week of January 22-26
Reminders
This Week...
Mid-year assessments will continue throughout the rest of January.
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.
- Please make sure you charge ipads 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 ( all work due at the end of the week)
- Reading Practice
- Math pages 77-82
What we are learning...
ELA
We will be learning about point of view, making connections and text organization. We will talk about how we can tell a story is nonfiction. We will talk about how nonfiction and narrative nonfiction are similar and different.
Math
We will be learning about comparing problems. When doing this, students will notice that when comparing the addition and subtraction problems for a word problem they are fact families ( related facts). We will use the term more and less this week. We will take a math quiz.
Fundations
We will be learning about consonant blends and r-controls sounds ( ar, or, er, ir, ur)
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 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.
Feb. 2 - Kids Heart Challenge - WEAR RED
Feb. 2 - Groundhogs Day
Feb. 6th - Jersey Mike's Night 3pm-9pm
Feb. 7th - Early Release Day - dismissal at noon
Feb. 9 - 100th Day of School.
Feb. 12th - School Bus Driver Appreciation Week
Feb. 14th - Valentine's Day