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Welcome Back

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no-toys_circleWe are excited for your return tomorrow.  We hope you had a very happy break with your family and friends.  We know that the children are excited about the gifts they received, but we are requesting that all toys and gifts remain at home. Thank you for your support on this matter.

Library Tomorrow

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Owl On BooksLibrary books are due every Wednesday.  Checking out books from our school library is a privilege. To check out books students are expected to:
1- Follow the library rules (be respectful, follow directions, use a library voice, etc.)
2- Return library books (no outstanding books)
3- Select a book during the allotted time

Weekly Reminders

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Image result for Free Christmas Clip Art1- Tuesday:  Growth Monitoring Testings.  Please have your children get a good nights rest Monday night and a healthy breakfast before coming to school Tuesday morning. 

2- Wednesday: Pajama Day 

3- Thursday:  Choir Assembly for the students to attend 

4- Friday: Sing-A-Long Assembly then Winter Party from 11:40am -1:15 pm 
   Ugly Sweater Day or free dress down day

 

No Homework 12/10 – 12/14

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There is no Math or Reading Fluency Passages required this week. The math family letter and reading passage will still be sent home, but isn’t required to be turned back in.  Please have your student continue reading 20 minutes or more each night and then asking them questions about what they have read.  For example, you may ask them about the main topic of the story, who the characters are, what is the setting, what events take place, etc.  


Reading Homework

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screenshot-2016-09-07-15-58-13No homework reading passages due for this upcoming week. I will still be sending them home in the green folders if the students would like to read them, but they are not required to be returned.  

Beginning January, our reading homework is changing to Raz-Kids.

Raz-Kids is an online leveled-reading program. Students can listen to books, read books, record themselves reading the books, take short quizzes to check for comprehension, and personalize their robot and rocket in the Star Zone.

To access the program simply click here: RAZ-KIDS
Teacher login: nelson1st
Password: (will be attached to student’s green homework folder)

Reminders

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Christmas ornament 2 red1- FRIDAY:  
   Homework due
 *Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants)

2- On Friday, December 14th we will have our First Grade Winter Party 11:40am-1:15pm.  If you have not yet paid your yearly party donations please do so to the office.  All volunteers are welcome to come help.  We will be rotating through all 5 of the 1st grade classes.  

3- Amazon shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/26-0198425 and AmazonSmile donates to Quest Academy at no extra cost to you.

Upcoming events:

Growth Monitoring- December 11-12 (sleep well, eat a good breakfast)
Pajama Day- December 12th
Christmas Sing-along- December 14th (in the morning)
Christmas Party- December 14th (after lunch)
Winter Break- December 15-January 2 (no school)

Homework 12/3 – 12/7

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Homework this week is due on Friday, December 7th:

1- Math Homework: 
  • A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder (Monday).  This week’s math activity is a review of the same math activity from last week. Please have your student review it as the students still need some extra work on it.  It provides an activity to do together.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together. 
  • ***Parents, please WRITE YOUR SIGNATURE on the math homework, indicating you did this activity with your child**
*These are due on Friday.  When students return this letter with their name and a parent signature (indicating a parent read it and did the activity with their child), the student will be entered into our treasure chest drawing. 

2- Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders on Mondays). Please complete both sides of the Leveled Daily Reading Fluency assignment. One of the benefits of the leveled readers is the opportunity we have to adjust to meet individual student needs. Feel free to write a note if the reading passage is not a good fit for your student (too easy or too hard). Please consider both reading fluency and reading comprehension when requesting a more challenging passage. 
 
3- Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order.
 
Below is what we are working on this week in language arts: 
Unit 3 Week 1 Parent Newsletter