Week of November 23rd, 2009

Dear First Grade Parents,

Don’t forget to come to our Thanksgiving Feast on Wednesday!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I am so thankful for your children being in my class! First grade is bringing drinks and ice. Also, visit our Science and History Museum in our classroom after the presentation.

We are in need or black dry erase markers to replace our current ones. They are starting to dry out. We also need wide ruled notebook paper and pencil toppers. Thank you for your donations. Thank you to all of you who sold cookie dough. The money helps me buy things for our class. The money and orders were due today!

This week we will learn and /ea/ in Success For All reading. We will write “We are Thankful” stories using the writing process, and the trait of organization, and voice. In Math, students will practice addition using dominoes, fact families, and number grids, and have a test on Wednesday. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. We will learn about the First Thanksgiving and compare it to our Thanksgiving in current times.

Homework this week will be a Math worksheet each night, 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.

No spelling homework this week!!!!!

We have had many students absent. If your child is absent for more than one day please get their work from me. I don’t want them to get far behind and bring their grades down. We need to keep them learning and their work completed.

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