If your student needs vision aids such as glasses, PLEASE ensure your child comes to school with these aids every day, and particularly during hearing and vison screening dates. We want to eliminate any false fails.
We are looking for Volunteers to help with our hearing and vision screening. Please sign up in the signup sheet in the school's newsletter if you are able to help. Thank you so much for those who have already signed up!
Flu/Cold season is here. Please continue to teach your children proper hygiene habits such as washing their hands right after using the bathroom, after they cough or sneeze and before they eat or touch their eyes or mouth. Help them practice sneezing or coughing on their sleeve, to help prevent any possible spread of microorganisms.
The health office would like also to remind you that scholars are not allowed to have medications (pre-scribed or over the counter) in their backpacks. This can cause a serious safety concern for all the scholars. Please reach out to me if your scholar needs to take any prescribed or over the counter medications.
The health office kindly request that, if you receive a call from our health office regarding your scholar needing to go home due to a possible illness, to please make the arrangements necessary so that your scholar may be picked up at a reasonable time. We want to maintain the health and wellbeing of your student as well as all our scholars and staff. Please review the Illness Policy for Students and Staff found in the school website under "Parent Resources" and "Health Office" that we use to determine if we need to send a student home.
Thank you for your cooperation in our goal of keeping our school healthy!
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Friday, October 2nd - Early dismissal at 12:30
- October 5th - October 9th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 12th-13th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- October 19th - 23rd - Hearing and Vision Screening
- October 24th: Trunk or Treat (4:30–6:30 pm)
- October 27th: Picture Retakes
- October 28th: Classical Character Day
- November 8th: Mother Son Kickball (12 pm)
- November 11th: No school (VETERAN'S DAY)
- November 24th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (We need 10 parent chaperones for each class. Sign up coming to Configio on October 19th.)
- 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've just finished The House at Pooh Corner. We learned a lot about friendship and little lessons about life from those friends! After Pooh and his friends, we met Owl at Home. We will find out more about him next week!
In grammar, we have been studying how to write proper nouns of places specifically our cities, the different states of America, and our street names.
📕 SAYINGS:
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 POETRY: Next week, students will recite one of these poems in front of the class with a group. We will check for posture, accuracy, audience perception and voice.
by Christina Rossetti
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!"
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
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,
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 your child hasn't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
We practiced jobs of silent final e:
rule 7: Job 1: e jumps over the consonant to make the vowel say its name
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v
Job 3: e makes the g say /j/ and c say /s/
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel
Job 5: e has no job
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 5: i and y may say /i/ (long sound)
rule 6: y, not i, is used at the end of an English word
rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
rule 18: Use 'ay' to say 'a' at the end of a base word, never alone
rules covered this weekrule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
Key:
new rules covered