Homework 10/29 – 11/2

Homework this week is due on Friday, November 2nd:
**Animal Reports are due this Friday, November 2nd if they haven’t already been turned in.  We will be presenting them within the following week. 

1- Math Homework: 
  • A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder tomorrow (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 strategyHelp 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 2 Week 2 Parent Newsletter

Positive Me Week (October 29-November 2)

Self-EsteemHere is the list of dress up fun for Positive Me Week:

Monday- Hat Day
“Scare away bad health” by wearing your favorite hat!

Tuesday- Team Jersey Day
“Scare away bullies” by wearing a team jersey or t-shirt!

Wednesday- Halloween
“Scare up some fun” by wearing your Halloween costume!

Thursday- Super Hero Day 
“Scare away negativity” by wearing your favorite super hero shirt!

Friday- Crazy Hair Day
“Scare away drugs” by having crazy hair!

Halloween Party Permission

curly witch hat with flowerThe 1st Grade Halloween Party will be Wednesday, October 31 at 11:30am.  Please complete the online permission form:  Halloween PERMISSION FORM

We will be holding three holiday parties this year; Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine’s. We are requesting a $3.00 donation for each party to help with the associated costs.  If possible, please donate $9.00 for all holiday parties at this time.  If you prefer you may donate $3.00 now and pay the remaining amount later.  Thank you for your generous donations.

Costume Guidelines:
Please note that costumes should be modest and without blood or gore. Though students may paint their faces, masks and weapons are not allowed. Anything that depicts violence is banned (knives, guns, swords, spears, etc.). Just to reiterate, no blood, either depicted on the costume or in makeup, is allowed.

Things We Are Working On

Parents, 
I wanted to let you know of some things we have been mastering for Language Arts. Currently, we are working on  mastering key details, and identifying the characters, setting, and events in a story. Many of your students are struggling with these and I would appreciate it if you could review them with your students. Whether it is asking them questions, or having them tell you what the story is about that you are reading at home. An idea would be to have students draw pictures of the characters and where the story takes place (setting) after you read a story. You can also read a story and have them color pictures of 4 key details of something that happened in the story. Anything you can do to help them better understand these concepts is appreciated! Thank you! Books
Also, for math we have been mastering, “I can use number partners to make 6 and 7.” Many students are struggling with this concept because they get confused on where the numbers can go. Many of them can do it if I’m sitting next to them, but lots struggled on the test today. If you could please review with them, I would appreciate it. Here is an example of what we worked on. Feel free to do a couple with your student with different numbers that make 6 and 7. On their test they had to find one of the smaller box numbers (so in this case, they had to find the number 5 because 1+5=6) Then, they had to go through and put the numbers 1 and 5 where they go in the number sentence. 6=1+5 and if we switch the numbers they can do 6=5+1. Hopefully this makes sense and you are able to do some examples at home. If your student can do the numbers for 6 and 7. Have them work on 8 and 9. The next couple lessons are building on each other and we continue to do bigger numbers.

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