First Grade Weekly News
Week of October 23rd - 27th
Reminders
This Week...
- Oct. 23rd End of the 9 weeks.
- Oct. 25th First grade Mike's Farm Field trip.
- Oct. 27th PBIS reward day - Game day. Please make sure games fit in your child's bookbag.
Field Trip
- We will be taking a field trip to Mike's Farm on Wednesday, October 25th.
- If you are Chaperoning on the field trip please remember you will follow our buses from White Oak and back to White Oak after the field trip. An information sheet with your groups will be sent home this week.
- Contact your classroom teacher if you plan on checking out your child after the field trip. Each teacher will have a check out sheet for their class.
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 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 27-32
- 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 a story create a sequence. Be knowing this sequence it helps us comprehend the stories we read. We will talk about story structure and summarizing a story.
***Our Science connection will be amazing animals and pumpkins.
Sequence
Sequence and Comprehension
Story Structure
Summarizing
Math
We will continue to learn about adding 3 numbers. We will also learn about determining if an equation is equal or not equal.
The homework for this week will be focused on the skills we learned last week.
Fundations
We will be learning about bonus letters. ( l, f, s)
We will still be tapping out words with digraphs.
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)
October 23rd - End of the 1st nine weeks
October 25 Field trip to Mike's Farm
October 27 PBIS Celebration ( Game day - Students can bring in a board game. Please make sure the game fits in their book bags).
October 30 Report Cards go Home
Tuesday October 31 – Costume Glow Party in the Gym during MI time! Students will come to school dressed in their costume or favorite book character.
Monday, November 3 - Jersey Mikes Night 3 - 9pm
Sunday, November 5 - Daylight savings time - Fall back an hour.
Friday, November 10 - No School Veterans day
November 14 - Fall Makeup Pictures