We are looking forward to our Egypt Party on Monday, October 26th.
💡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 24th: Trunk or Treat (5:00–7:00 pm)
- Monday, October 26th: Egypt party
- October 27th: Picture Retakes
- October 28th: Classical Character Day
- November 8th: Mother Son Kickball (2 pm)
- November 11th: No school (VETERAN'S DAY)
- November 24th - Field Trip at the Phoenix Zoo (We need 10 parent chaperones for each class. Please sign up on Configo if you are able to help.)
- November 25 to 27 - Thanksgiving Break
- December 9th - Winter Concert
- December 15-17 Half-Day / 12:30 Dismissal
- December 18-31 No School: Winter Break
- January 1-5 No School: Winter Break
- January 4-5 - Parent Teacher Conferences - invitation only (no students)
- January 6 - 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 finished up the first book from the Frog and Toad series this week. We also started reading "Frog and Toad Together" - the second installment of the Frog and Toad series. We also continued practicing how to retell and make oral summaries, and answered questions from the comprehension packets.
📕 POETRY
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:
- 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: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 wordrule 8: /er/ can be found in "Her first nurse works early."
rule 18: Use 'ay' to say 'a' at the end of a base word, never alone
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
rule 26: Capitalization proper nouns.
rules covered this weekKey:
new rules coveredrules covered in the past
📕 MATHEMATICS: We started a new chapter in math. We recognized the numbers 0 - 20 and how to write the number word. We learned how 11 to 20 is shown in a ten frame, and how to compare and order them. We reviewed more of our numbers 11 to 20 and had a chapter test. Please continue practicing tens and ones at home.
