It was great to see you at Open House. I hope you enjoyed just browsing around the classroom and looking at the textbooks your child will be using in the First Grade. I hope you are enjoying your three day weekend.
Remember, there is no school on Monday. This is a reminder to those of you who have not gone to a Safe Environment Training Session, and want to work in the classroom when needed or drive on field trips. A training session is being offered on Tuesday evening at OLM at 6:00. In order to help in a classroom or drive on a field trip you MUST have this training and be fingerprinted. If you have already attended a session and have been fingerprinted you are fine.
The OLM catalog sale kicked off on Friday. Your child should have brought home all of the information. Hopefully you have already started your sales.
Wednesday, September 8, is the birthday of the Blessed Mother.
Thank you so much for the great job you are doing signing those planners. The students have really gotten into the groove about writing in them.
Curriculum remains the same. We are doing a lot of review. As you can see we have started the reading program. We are now on our second paperback reader. Your children seem to be moving along with the vocabulary words. On Friday their first reading packet will go home. There will be a percentage printed up in the corner. That is to let you know what the grade was on those pages. I will be sending home a letter explaining the grading system on those pages. Because of the three day weekend I had your children write the new vocabulary words and take them home. They were the last page on there work packet that went home on Friday. Look for it.
At the end of the week we will be starting addition in math. On Monday, September 13, they will take their first timed math test. There will be 25 problems and I will start with 3 minutes and then work down to 2 minutes. If they appear to be pretty fast I will shorten the time to under 2 minutes.
In Social Studies we are studying about communities, rules, laws, and leaders. We will be finishing it up in a week and will then go into the Ecosystem in Science.
Spelling words will start coming home on the week of the 20th.
VOCABULARY WORDS
found
going
am
for
under
across
good
bad
so
draw
are
look
Just a reminder: Please talk to your child about money and snacks that they bring to school. The money and the snack is for them. They are not to be giving away their money or snack. I know they all want to be generous but we have had a few minor problems. I have talked to the class and I would appreciate it if you would also review this with them.
No more news at this time. Once again, thank you for all of your support. It is greatly appreciated. If you have read this blog, have your child take one of the new vocabulary words and write a sentence using it. The sentences that came in last week were very good. Thank you. GOD LOVES YOU!
