📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Happy Veteran's Day Weekend! We are grateful to those who served our country!
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- November 10 - NO SCHOOL (Veteran's Day)
- November 18 - Medieval Faire
- November 21 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo
- November 22 to 24 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 6 - Winter Concert
- December 13 - 15 - Half days
- December 16 to Jan 4th - Winter break
- January 2 to 3 - Winter conferences by invitation only
- January 4 - Deadline for Animal Reports
💡REMINDERS:
1. Please double check your child's uniform to make sure they still have the right length.
2. The scholars should bring the following daily:
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)
*Your child may use the small backpack-shaped checklist of the things they need to bring to help them pack their things.
3. Please review the Driveline procedure here: directionsforparentsdrivelin.docx We have also attached the file in the resources on the right side of this webpage.
💡WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: his week, we read more folktales: a Mexican tale about the Little Half Chick or "Medio Polito" from Mexico, a Native American Tale "Why the Owl Has Big Eyes", and the Jewish tale "It Could Always be Worse / Too Much Noise".
📕 SAYINGS: It could always be worse.
📕 POETRY:
The Goops (Table Manners)
by Gelette Burgess
The Goops they lick their fingers,
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the tablecloth—
The Goops they talk while eating,
And loud and fast they chew;
And that is why I’m glad that I
Am not a Goop--are you?
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!
The Caterpillar
by Christina Rossetti
Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry;
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk.
May no toad spy you,
May the little birds pass by you;
Spin and die,
To live again a butterfly.
October’s Party
by George Cooper (Stanza 1 only)
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.
📕 READING: Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page below for the reading volunteer signup.
Mrs. Aguayo
Mrs. Santiago
Ms. Baines
https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/85643710095/false?popup=true#/invitation
📕 SPALDING: We learned rule 26: Capitalize proper nouns.
📕 MATHEMATICS: The students learned the doubles and doubles +1 strategy this week, and had a check up test on addition. We are now moving on to subtraction!
📕 SCIENCE: We are still studying about the human body! Students discussed and reviewed the skeletal systems. Ask your child about bones, how many do we have, and the job for the cranium.
1st Grade Teachers