Week of October 19, 2009

October 19, 2009
Dear First Grade Parents,

This week is a usual week. We have school all five days and get out at 3:00 everyday except Wednesday.

For the field trip to Apple Annie’s on Friday, I still need a few permission slips and some money. Please return forms and money no later than Tuesday. All family members must pay in advance. On Friday we must leave the school no later than 8:15 am. Don’t be left behind. Parents and other family members who are joining us need to drive themselves or carpool with other adults who are attending.

This week we will learn /ed/ and /ing/ in Success For All reading. We will write a narrative in writing using the writing process, and the trait of organization. In Math, students will add with dominoes, tell time to the half hour and learn to count dimes alone and with pennies and nickels. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Social Studies, we will make an Arizona flag and fill in an Arizona map. In Science, we will begin our kit titled Pebbles, Sand, and Silt. We will be observing, sorting, and wetting rocks.

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.

1.pool
2.tooth
3.teeth
4.cool

Monday- Write each word 5 time
Tuesday- Write each word in a sentence
Wednesday- ABC Order
Thursday-Do a practice spelling test

5.worm
6.day
7.eat
8.sits
9. lot
10. box

All children are expected to be in attendance each day unless they are ill or a family emergency arises. If you know that your child is going to be absent/tardy, please call the office at 807-9668.
If your child is absent for a total of 18 days, consecutive or nonconsecutive, excused or unexcused it is seen as truant and excessive. AAL reports all students with excessive absences to the Pima County Attorney’s truancy office. For more information about truancy, visit http://www.pcao.pima.gov/actnow.htm
Truant, unverified, unexcused, excessive excused absences and tardies affect the student’s education and increases the chances for failure. Please help us give your child the education he/she needs to be successful for the future.

Thank you,Mrs. Brown