📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Please bring "Frog and Toad" books next week if you haven't yet. Thank you!
- We are doing an Animal Report in January. The scholars are choosing their animals until next week. You may help them decide which one they like.
- Sign-up link for the Parent-Teacher Conferences on October 16-17 through this link: https://archwaychandler.configio.com/search?cid=392
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- October 9-17 - No School (Fall Break)
- October 16-17 - Parent Teacher Conferences, no students
- October 23 - Class Egypt Party (organized by parent volunteers)
- October 25 - Classical Character Day
- November 21 - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (we need 10 parent chaperones for each class)
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure it is emptied out at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We finished our Owl at Home series, and started Aesop's Fables! We retold the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" through a reader's theater. We also read about "The Dog in the Manger and The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing" Next week, we will kick off our Frog and Toad Series.
In Grammar, we wrote our final copywork assignment for assessment this quarter.
📕 SAYINGS: "A wolf in sheep's clothing"
📕 POETRY: Next week, each student will get to recite with a partner any one of these poems in front of the class.
What are Heavy
by Christina Rossetti
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
Flint
by Christina Rossetti
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
Work (Work While You Work)
by Anonymous
Work while you work,
Play while you play,
This is the way
To be happy each day.
All that you do,
Do with your might,
Things done by half
Are never done right.
Hearts Are Like Doors
by Anonymous
Hearts, like doors, will open with ease,
To very, very little keys,
And don't forget that two of these
Are "Thank you, sir" and "If you please!"
Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)
by Anonymous
Don't worry if your job is small,
And your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
📕 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: Students will practice 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.
📕 MATHEMATICS: Students were able to identify addition equations and subtraction equations for a given number number bond (Fact Families). We reviewed subtractions and the different methods of subtractions. Students learned about word problems and we will assess all our subtraction concepts next week.
📕 HISTORY: We learned about Pharaohs and the everyday people and made puppets for them. We found out that camels are what they used to travel in the desert as well. We also studied about how pharaohs were wrapped in strips of cloth and buried in pyramids.
📕 SCIENCE: For our habitats this week, we learned about living things found in salt water and freshwater habitats. We also finished our discussion on deserts, and did our first animal study about Gila monsters.
1st Grade Team
Have a wonderful weekend!
