Week of December 14th, 2009

December 14, 2009
Dear First Grade Parents,

We have school Monday through Thursday. Beginning Friday, December 18th through January 3, 2010 is Winter Break. I will be sending home a packet to do during the break. Please try to do it and return it on the 4th of January. Students who return it completed will get a treasure box item. Have a Happy and Safe vacation. I want to see everyone back on the 4th to share what you did on break. I will miss you all.

We are in need of 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.

This week we will do thematic unit on the Gingerbread Man book. We will write sentences using past tense verbs and pronouns. In Math, students will do story problems, practice their addition and subtraction math facts, and do guess my rule activities. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. We will learn about the holidays in the winter such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Students are encouraged to share how they celebrate in the winter. We will continue our Rock Unit in Science.

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