Sunday, May 9, 2010

Week of May 10th, 2010

May 10th, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,

This Thursday, May 13th is Math Night from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm at Arizona Academy of Leadership South. We will play fun and educational Math games in every classroom in the school. Start in your child’s room and move to as many you like. Have fun!!!! Then, eat PIZZA and drink a refreshing drink in the cafeteria. First grade is one of the classes donating $.50 per student to help pay for the PIZZA! Please bring your donation by Wednesday, May 12th. Hope to see you there.

This week, we will continue a new SFA Phonics program called Word Power about contractions and compound words and continue the 2nd Grade SFA Reading Program called Wings. In Writing, we will write multi-step directions to make an ice cream sundae. In Math, we will review place value, number grids, money story problems, and addition story problems. We will make zoomers in Science and experiment with them.

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 Thursday. There will be homework of Spelling five times each word on Monday, each word in a sentence on Tuesday, ABC order for Wednesday, a practice spelling test for Thursday. Spelling test is on Friday.



Spelling Words: Bonus Words:
1. felt 1. sensory
2. coming 2. attending
3. easy 3. simplicity
4. goose 4. gosling
5. garden 5. gardening
6. hopping 6. bouncing
7. knife 7. cerates
8. queen 8. royalty
9. season 9. seasonal
10. sign 10. signal




Thank you,
Mrs. Brown

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