The Sherwood Shine
A Newsletter for Sherwood First Grade Families
Coming Eventsi
September 29 Family Skate Night 6:00-8:00
October 12 Teacher Professional Learning Day-School will not be in session
October 19-23 Book Fair
October 23 Fall Harvest Night 6-8 Watch for more details soon
Thank you for coming to Open House on Thursday night! It was so nice to see all of you. If you weren't able to attend here's the link schedule your child's parent teacher conference.
Homework Folders
This week we will start sending home homework. We will send all of the homework for the entire week in our Monday Homework Folder. The work will be due on Friday but can be returned as soon as your child is finished with the homework. Each week your child will have math homework, spelling homework (Look for more about spelling homework under the spelling column.) and a take home book to read. In addition, there is a reading log inside your child's Monday Folder for you to record your child's at home reading. We encourage you to have your child read 5 to 10 minutes every night. This can be reading to, reading with or being read to by someone. Thanks so much for all you do to support your child's learning.
Spelling
This week we will start our weekly spelling tests or checks. First semester, each week your child will be tested over 8 words and have one dictation sentence. For the dictation sentence students will need to start the sentence with a capital letter, spell all the words correctly and with correct end mark (. ? or !). Each week your child will have spelling homework. One side of the paper will be for May Dos and have directions for what the student must do to practice spelling words. On the back side students pick two May Dos from the spelling menu that is in their homework folder. It is the last page in the middle in the clear plastic protector. It will also be posted in our Facebook group for you to use.
Here's What We are Learning
Reading: We are working on word families, at, an, it, and ot. We also will be reading books at our reading level in our small group reading groups.
Math: We continue to work on strategies for subtracting two numbers. Look for math homework in your child's Monday folder. Remember your child will likely need help reading part of the math homework.
Writing: We are working on writing sentences.
Mr. Sikes and Mrs. Youngblood's First Grade
Email: csikes@spsmail.org
Website: http://sherwood.spsk12.org/pages/Sherwood
Location: 2524 S Golden Ave, Springfield, MO, United States
Phone: 417-523-3800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/484050981752144/
Twitter: @sikesyoungblood