First Grade Friday News - January 3

I hope that your families had a wonderful Christmas break filled with family time and worship in celebration of our Savior’s birth.  My prayer for each of you is that 2014 will be a year blessed with health and happiness.

 

Dates to remember:

Thurs., Jan. 9             Report cards go home.

Jan. 26-31                  National Lutheran Schools week  (Information will be coming home soon about the events planned for this week.

Fri., Jan. 31                Grandparents Day

Mon., Feb. 17              Make-up day for snow day

The week ahead:      

Spelling words:  middle, fiddle, wiggle, giggle, puddle, cuddle, fur, bird, were, four

Religion:  Epiphany, The boy Jesus                                                        

Reading skill:  Fact and fiction

Math:  Adding two-digit numbers,  Adding “doubles +1”  facts (5+6, 6+7, 7+8, 8+9)

Language/Writing:  Writing a compare and contrast story

Science:   Winter, Weather

Social Studies:  Antarctica

• Report cards will be sent home on Thursday.  Please sign and return the cover sheet to indicate that you have looked over the report card.  You do not need to return the report card.  Remember that a checkmark indicates that your child is progressing as expected in that skill.  A plus indicates progress beyond what is expected and a minus indicates that more practice is needed in that skill area.  Please phone or email me with any questions that you may have about your child’s progress.  I will also be happy to schedule a conference if you would like to talk in person. 

 

• This quarter, all students will be required to take and pass at least one AR test each week.  Please listen to your child read his or her AR library book twice and discuss the story.  Students may take AR tests at our classroom computer any day of the week.  Children who have not passed an AR test by Friday morning will be asked to spend their recess reading.  Your child may take AR tests over school or public library books, classroom library books, and books that you have in your home library.  Look on the Accelerated Reader website, arbookfind.com, to be sure that the book from your home library is included in the AR list.  After your child has read the book twice, send a note with the title and author indicating that your child is ready to take a test.  Children are given time each day at school to read AR books in the classroom.