This week in Mathematics, students
are continuing to practice their doubles
facts with sums to 20. During math
students learned about the times of day
which included morning, afternoon,
evening, and night. Students also learned
about addition facts by adding one to the
number.
Things to Keep Practicing at Home:
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Family Reading Night Snack donation for
1st grade: pretzels
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Teacher contact information and grading
scale are located on the back side of the
newsletter for additional information.
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Please remember to sign your child’s
report card envelope and send it back on
side one of your child’s blue folder as soon
as possible.
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Please practice with your child on tying
shoes. With wet weather on the way,
students need to be able to tie P.E. shoes
on their own. Also, please do not double
knot shoes because it makes it difficult to
untie . Thank you!
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Please remember to check your child’s
homework every night. Please help read
directions on worksheets and review high
frequency words.
1. Doubles facts.
2. Writing numbers to 50.
3. Recognizing numbers to 50.
4. Writing three different number sentences
to get the same answer.
In Science, students are continuing to
work with pumpkins. Students reviewed
the life cycle of a pumpkin and learned
more about the parts of a pumpkin.
Students now know pumpkins inside and
out! This week, students also learned
about how tall and wide our classroom
pumpkin was and whether or not
pumpkins sink or float. Tonight ask your
child whether pumpkins float or sink and
why?
Wednesday, October 31st
Report Cards Went Out
November 1st & 2nd
Vision & Hearing Screening
November 7th and 8th (Mrs. Curl – Nov. 5, 6, & 8)
Parent Teacher Conferences…schedule your
conference today!
November 15th
Family Reading Night from 5:30-7:00pm
This week the first graders took a break from the
usual readers and read a fun Halloween story
titled Maria’s Halloween. We worked on using our
own words to retell what happened at the
beginning, middle, and end as well as telling what
the main idea of a story is. Another skill we are
working on is using context clues (other words in
a sentence or an accompanying picture) to figure
out words we don’t know. Also, the fun finger play
“Five Little Pumpkins” helped the first graders
work on sequencing. It’s always refreshing to
have some holiday fun while we learn!
The first graders are becoming more independent
during Reading Workshop. Each day they have
time to complete a task on their own. Please
check your child’s homework folder nightly in case
he/she needs more time to complete the
assignment.
In the story Maria’s Halloween, three kids go trickor-treating and visit neighbors who give them a
small treat.
Each neighbor’s door had a
Halloween decoration. The first graders learned
that when we want to show that something
belongs to someone, we use an apostrophe
followed by an ‘s’.
We have been learning so many new ideas in
phonics class that this week we worked on a
review worksheet that required the first graders to
code words that used all the various skills! It also
allowed them to work on syllables (claps) and
being a detective to find mistakes in a sentence.
small
want
two
into
very
saw
no
good
ride
out
put
away
We would like to thank all the parents
who volunteered and donated supplies
for the Halloween party. You all made it a
great success. Thank you for your time and
support!
Please remember to sign your child’s
report card envelope and send it
back on side one of your child’s blue
folder as soon as possible.
Academic Progress:
G+
G
GS+
S
SN
Excellent……………………100%
Very Good…………………99-92%
Good………………………..91-90%
Satisfactory…………………89-88%
Meets Expectations…………87-75%
Unsatisfactory………………74-70%
Needs Improvement...........69% below
Mrs. Hamilton: [email protected]
Mrs. Kurtenbach: [email protected]
Just a reminder to always have your child
practice the few words at the bottom of
each homework paper.
Mrs. Curl: [email protected]
Mrs. Basham: [email protected]