Week of September 29th, 2009

Dear First Grade Parents,

There is no school on Monday, September 28, 2009. There is a teacher-planning day. I will see you on Tuesday. Have a great three-day weekend.

This week we will learn the consonant digraphs /th/, /y/, /v/, and /qu/ in Success For All reading. We will listen to and identify informative and narrative texts in Reading. We will learn how to make plural words and begin the writing process to write our second friendly letter. In Math, students will count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and backwards. We will review counting nickels and pennies as well as addition and subtraction through practice and games. For Science, we will learn about the habitats of deserts, forests, ocean, and prairies. Lastly, in Social Studies we will learn about our state of Arizona.

Our classroom has some needs. We need 12 rulers with inches and centimeters, 9 pairs of scissors, and some students to donate a few dollars each so I can buy a new pencil sharpener that will cost $10.00. We have plenty of hand sanitizer, wipes, and Kleenex. Thank you for donating a few dollars for the sharpener, one ruler, and some glue sticks.

Homework this week will be a Math worksheet each night, spelling, and reading for 20 minutes. An adult needs to sign the student’s reading log each day to show that they read each day after school. It needs to be turned in Friday.

Spelling words:
1.may
2.six
3.into
4.boy
5.book
6.him
7.today
8. look
9.did
10.like

Tuesday- 5 x's each word
Wednesday- Words in sentences
Thursday- Practice test

Thank you,
Mrs. Brown