OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 2

I saw many of you at the Halloween Carnival.  I hope you had a good time with your family.  The weather was wonderful.

I also enjoyed meeting with you at conferences.  Continue to talk to your children about effort, doing their best and reviewing their work.  I also encourage you to have your child read aloud to you every night.  Easy books are good as they help with reading fluency.  When a book is too difficult, a child has difficulty with the comprehension.

Wednesday is Halloween.  Your child is allowed to wear their costume to school.  There will be a Halloween Costume Parade that morning.

There will be an all-school Mass on Thursday, November 1, in honor of All Saints.  You are all welcome.  Beginning November 1,  shorts are not allowed to be worn.

Dismissal on Friday is at 12:30.  On Friday your child is allowed to wear their favorite team shirt.

Curriculum remains the same.  We have started Level 3 in Reading and we continue to review contractions, compound words, endings of ing, ed and s, plurals, possession, cause and effect, sequencing, classification, short vowels a, i, o, vocabulary and comprehension.  In Science we are learning about animals in the ecosystem.  In Social Studies we will be learning about Native American Indians and the pilgrims.  In Religion we are learning about God's love for us and the saints.  In P.E. we are working with jump ropes.  In Math we continue to review addition and subtraction facts.
We will be starting timed subtraction math facts in another week.

Thank you to all of you that donated books to the classroom from the Book Fair.  It was greatly appreciated.

We will be performing in the Thanksgiving Program on Wednesday, November 7.  I am hoping to have all the white t-shirts in by Monday as they are needed for the Thanksgiving Program.  Thank you.

VOCABULARY WORDS

any
trouble
kind
gave
there
thing
nice
thought
answered
asked

Thank you again for all of your support.  Please continue to sign the planners.  If you have read this blog just have a great day.  The weather is gorgeous.  GOD LOVES YOU!

OCTOBER 22-OCTOBER 26

Report cards went home on Friday.  They are to be signed and returned by next Friday.  You may return them when you meet me at conference time.  The SLE card also needs to be signed and returned.  I am looking forward to meeting with all of you.  Dismissal is at 12:30  everyday this week because of conferences.  A reminder:  conferences are only 15 minutes long.

Monday is the beginning of Red Ribbon Week.  A schedule of all activities went home on Friday.  There will be a free dress day on Wednesday.  Students are suppose to wear red.  Next week is also the Book Fair.  Your child will preview on Monday and bring home a wish list.  You are free to browse at the Book Fair all week long.   .

A living rosary which will include our new faith families will be prayed on Friday at 8:00.

Thank you to all the drivers who went to the Pumpkin Patch.  Thank you for the snacks.  The children all had a wonderful time.

A note will be going home about our service project.  We will be supplying the D Street Shelter with needed items for their clients.  I would like items turned in by November 9.

On Saturday evening, from 5-8pm, the Halloween Carnival will be held at the school.  The first grade will be hosting 2 booths.  A note went home Friday to all parents about the carnival.  I hope to see you there.

I would like all students to bring in a leaf by Wednesday.


A REMINDER:  Please check your child's folder nightly for homework, flyers, or other important information.  Homework is not being completed and returned.  Readers are not being brought back and planners are not be signed.  This affects your child's effort and subject matter grade  Thank you.

VOCABULARY WORDS

knows
warm
goes
brothers
sisters
about
together
ears
eyes
legs
body
nose

Have a great week.   GOD LOVES YOU!

OCTOBER 15-OCTOBER 19

The first quarter ended last Friday.  Report cards will be going home on Friday.  This is a good time to talk to your child and remind them what is expected of them.  They are to always do their best work.  They are to work quietly and when work is completed they should be reading or writing in their journal.  This quarter points will be deducted if a paper is turned in without a name.  When copying board work points will be deducted if not copied correctly.  Backward letters and numbers will also be marked as incorrect on reading and math worksheets.  Please remind your child of this.  Your children should also be using their best handwriting.  I will start handing back papers to be redone if the handwriting is unacceptable.

Wednesday we are off to the Pumpkin Patch.  I have many drivers.  If you have in all of the required information you will be driving.  Some of the adults may want to double up.  Please be at school by 12:25.  We will be leaving the school around 12:40 and will be returning by 2:30.  Please remember to send your child's booster seat to school on Wednesday.  On Wednesday it is also free dress for $1.00 in order to wear pink.  The proceeds go for cancer.

In Language Arts we continue to review sequencing, categories, cause and effect, endings of s, ed, and ing, plurals, contractions, punctuation, predictions, sentence order, nouns, short vowels a and i, rhyming, and comprehension.  We have started to subtract in math.  In science we are still working on the ecosystem.  We are now discussing herbivores.  In social studies we are finishing up maps and will start a unit on the United States and Native American Indians.  In religion we are discussing God's creation, Baptism, grace and things we are thankful for that God has given us.  In spelling we are reviewing short a and i.  In P.E. we are learning how to jump rope.

VOCABULARY WORDS

then
never
many
always
soup
lunch
whose
baby
father
everything

Have a great week.  If you have read this blog have your child write the names of 2 herbivores in their planner.  GOD LOVES YOU!

OCTOBER 8-OCTOBER 12

Thank you to all that have turned in the Pumpkin Patch permission slips with the money.  I will let you know who will be driving.  Some who said they would drive do not have their driving information in the office.  Please check on it.

Our first grade service project will be to bring in items to be taken to the D Street Homeless Shelter.  I will be sending home a note about the kinds of items that are needed


We have started Level II in reading. In reading we are reviewing contractions, compound words, endings of s, ed, and ing, cause and effect, categories, predictions, short a and i, plurals, vocabulary, words in correct order for a sentence, rhyming, and comprehension.  In Math we have started a new chapter on subtraction.  In Science we still continue to work on the ecosystem.  We will also be working with the seeds that your child was asked to bring in.  In Social Studies we are learning about the atlas and directions.  The atlas will come home Monday.  In Religion we are talking about Baptism and grace. In Spelling we are working on short i words.

Friday is the end of the first quarter.  Report cards will go out the following Friday.

Please remember to mark your child's sweatshirts or sweaters.  The weather has cooled off and it is difficult to know whose sweatshirt is whose if their is no name on it.  

A reminder:   there is no school on Friday.  The teachers will all be at an inservice in Visalia.

VOCABULARY

some
may
more
mother
tell
when
again
long
he
she
surprise
was
grow

Have a great week. GOD LOVES YOU!