First Grade Weekly News
Week of November 6-10
Reminders
This Week...
- Please pay for or turn back in fall pictures. You can purchase these online or send in money in the envelope in the picture packet. If you paid online let your child's teacher know. We all have check off sheets that we have to mark off. If you do not wish to purchase them, please send them back in so we can return them to the office.
- November 5 - Daylight Saving Time ( fall back an hour)
- November 6 - Jersey Mike Night 3pm - 9pm
- Turkey disguise activity coming home (These will be due 13th)
- Field trip forms coming home. We will be going to see the Nutcracker (These are due back on Nov. 14th)
- November 7th - Muffins for Military for those who have turned in slips listing Veterans.
- November 10 - Veterans Day - No School
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.
- 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
- Reading activity
- Math pages 41-44
- All Homework activities will be sent home at the beginning of the week and will be due on Friday.
What we are learning...
ELA
We will be learning how good readers ask questions about the stories they are reading. We will focus on the central idea, text features and retelling.
Asking Questions
Asking Questions
Math
We will continue reviewing addition and subtraction strategies together. The homework for this week will be focused on the skills we learned last week.
Fundations
We will be learning about suffix -s
We will continue to work with bonus letters ( l, f, s), digraphs ( ch, th, sh, wh, ck) and welded sounds (an, am, all).
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)
Sunday, November 5 - Daylight savings time - Fall back an hour.
Monday, November 6 - Jersey Mikes Night 3 - 9pm
Monday, November 6 - Turkey Disguise and field trip letters will come home.
Tuesday, November 7 - Muffins for Military
Friday, November 10 - No School Veterans day
Monday, November 13 - Turkey Disguise due
Tuesday, November 14 - Field trip forms due.
November 14 - Fall Makeup Pictures