First Grade Weekly News
Week of September 25th - 29th
Reminders
This Week...
- Booster-thon September 20th - September 29th.
( More Information will be coming home and will be sent by teachers through emails.) - Fun Run will be next Friday September 29 during MI time.
Field Trip
- We will be taking a field trip to Mike's Farm on Wednesday, October 25th.
- Permission slips will come home on October 2nd.
General
- 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.
- When your class starts bringing iPad home, please make sure you charge them nightly and returned 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.
Homework
- Reading activity
- Math pages 1-6
- All Homework activities will be sent home on at the beginning of the week and will be due on Friday.
What we are learning...
ELA
We will be learning about how settings in a story can change. We will be making connection with stories, using text features and summarizing.
***Our Social Studies connections will be communities. We will identify the different types of communities from our stories.
Math
We will continue to learn about addition. We will be using different strategies to help us add. We will be adding doubles and using unknown addends to find the sum.
The homework for this week will be focused on the addition skills we learned last week.
Fundations
We will continue working on tapping out cvc words. Example: cat, fan, mop, pet. We will have a unit test on Friday.
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 ( new items in bold print)
September 29 Boosterthon Ends
September 29 - Fun Run during MI
October 4 School Pictures
October 9 No School for students - Teacher Workday
October 13 Fall Festival
October 20 Early Release dismissal at noon
October 25 Field trip to Mike's Farm
October 27 PBIS Celebration
October 30 Report Cards go Home
October 31 Glow Party during MI