10/21

 Hello Families!

Parent Action Item:

1. Please review general school expectations and please remind your student to charge their Chromebook.
2. LABEL ALL sweaters, pullovers, jackets, parkas, scarves, hats, mittens, gloves, and snow boots. You would be surprised how fast cold weather comes and the things I have seen get lost over the years. PLEASE LABEL!

Important Dates:

• Oct 28th First Grade Assembly
• Oct. 31st Early Release at 1:30 pm
• Dress like Your Favorite Book Character Day! *See below for more info
• November 21-25 NO SCHOOL- Thanksgiving Break
• December 23rd HALF DAY - no lunch provided

If you are going to be out of town or have a pre-planned absences please let me know ASAP. 

Dress Like Your Favorite Book Character Day (OCT 31):

Help your child find a book with their favorite character and come up with a costume to wear. It cannot be scary and It HAS to be a book character! Students do not have to participate but they will need to be in uniform if they do not. Some good ideas might be: No! David!, Clifford, Skippy Jon Jones, Dr. Seuss, Madeline, etc… Be creative. Search Google and Pinterest...there are lots of ideas! We can’t wait to see all of our cuties dressed up! Thank you for all of your support! 

*Be sure your costume is school appropriate in length and has sleeves.  Please refrain from hats, costume masks, and face paint.  Nothing gory or obscene. Inappropriate costumes will be sent home. 

Academics:

Moral Focus: Respect: Treating people and things with care. We will explore how to do this at home.

Phonics: We will continue to work with diagraphs, which are two letters that make one new sound. We have already discussed sh and th. Next week we will look at ch and wh. Students will also be introduced to -tch which is a trigraph, 3 letters that make one sound.

Comprehension: We have been identifying the problems in stories and now we are going to work on identifying the solution in a story.

Math: We are going to continue to work on adding and subtracting within 25. We will be using dominoes as supports.

Science: We are going to continue our engineering unit. We will be looking at the parts and purposes of those parts of a backpack. At the end of the week we will redesign a backpack!