Thank you for your help at the Egypt Party! The scholars had an enjoyable time :)
💡ANNOUNCEMENTS
**Especially for our first grade's girl parents - A lot of your daughters love doing cartwheels at recess. Just as a reminder, please make sure they are wearing shorts under their dresses/skirts and that the shorts cover their underwear. Thank you for your attention to this.**
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Saturday, October 25: Trunk or Treat (4:30–7:00 pm)
- Wednesday, October 29th - Classical Character Day
- Tuesday, November 11 - NO SCHOOOL (Veteran's Day)
- Saturday, November 15: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- Tuesday, November 25th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (We need 10 parent chaperones for each class. Sign up coming on October 20th.)
- November 26 to 28 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 10 - Winter Concert
- December 16-18 Half-Day 12:30 Dismissal
- December 19-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 1-6 No School: Winter Break
- January 5-6 - Parent Teacher Conferences - invitation only (no students)
- January 7 - Animal Report due
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We started reading "Frog and Toad Together" - the third installment of the Frog and Toad series. We also continued practicing how to retell and make oral summaries, and answered comprehension sheets.
📕 POETRY
Rope Rhyme
by Eloise Greenfield
Get set, ready now, jump right in
Bounce and kick and giggle and spin
Listen to the rope when it hits the ground
Listen to that clappedy-slappedy sound
Jump right up when it tells you to
Come back down, whatever you do
Count to a hundred, count by ten
Start to count all over again
That’s what jumping is all about
Get set, ready now,
jump
right
out!
October's Party
by George Cooper
October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing
Professor Wind the band.
📕 SAYINGS:
- It could always be worse.
- Let the cat out of the bag.
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
Sight Word Bookmarks will be on a ring in your child's reading bag or in a binder sleeve. We will be testing for sight word knowledge once a week. During this time, we will be moving students to the next sight word list if they have mastered the previous one. (Please do not mark off sight words at home- we will do this in class).
📕 SPALDING: Continue practicing at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
Jobs of silent final e:
Job 1: Silent final e jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its name.
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v.
Job 3: c and g will say their second sound.
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel.
Job 5: No job (silent final e does not do anything, it just has to be there).
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
rule 18: "ay" is used to say a at the end of a base word
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
rule 25: ck is used after a single vowel that says its short sound.
sick
block
ap ple
lit tle
Students will practice at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet (1-70). Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
📕 MATHEMATICS: We reviewed more of our numbers 11 to 20 and had a Chapter test. Please continue practicing tens and ones at home.
📕 HISTORY: Before digging deep into our unit on the Early Civilization of Americas, we learned how the first people could have probably moved to the America from Asia. We also talked about what it was like to be a hunter and a gatherer then.
📕 SCIENCE: This week we continued talking about how animals' sense and respond to things. We also discovered that plants have senses too and we are conducting an experiment with mustard seeds to see how the plants will respond to classroom light.
