We are excited to participate in the upcoming field trip to Hill Aerospace Museum! Our field trip will be Tuesday, May 16th, and buses will leave the school at 9:00 AM sharp and will return to the school around 1:00 PM. Please be sure that your child packs a cold lunch from home (there will be no microwaves at the museum) in a disposable bag labeled with your child’s name. There will be NO SCHOOL LUNCH available!Please be sure that your child wears a WHITE uniform shirt (and uniform bottoms) on the field trip and comfortable walking shoes. Part of the field trip will be outdoors. The weather forecast calls for a high of 62 degrees and partly cloudy weather, so please dress appropriately. You may wish to wear sunscreen. Parent Chaperones, please sign in and get your volunteer sticker and come to our room by 8:45 at the latest. Please also, bring a backpack to carry your groups lunches in it. We have at least one chaperone for every group, but are more than happy to come if you would like to also help chaperone. If this is the case, please join your child’s group as a co-chaperone. Chaperone Parents also please verify we have the correct phone# for you listed on the group sheet below. Below see your chaperone assignment and child’s group:
There isn’t anything that needs to be turned in this week for homework. We will be grading homework off of the reports pulled off of the programs your child practices with.
1- Math Homework: We have completed all of our math lessons. Please have your child choose a math fact activity to practice.
- Choose an activity to complete from these math-fact-activities.
- They can choose Front Row Ed under Class Code: urjx8h
- They can also use Prodigy under Class Code: 3WFVWH
**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK**
1- Reading 20 minutes per day. No more Baggie Books. Please turn your baggie books in immediately. Also, please turn in all library books so that your child does not miss out on Field Day. They were due last Wednesday.
2- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities.
Spelling City is a great resource tool for your children to practice this week’s spelling words. They all know their logins and password is “rams”.
3- Extra Phonics Practice: Your can also log on to Front Row Ed and practice your phonics reading skills under “Word Study” using class code: URJX8H to log in.
Phonics Words:
grin
drum
grab
glad
grand
High Frequency Words:
come
or
put
play
know
Sentence:
She will grab a drum.
Here is a list of all first grade sight words. Your child will have to spell them all at the end of the year. So practice spelling them at home. High-Frequency-Words
Hill Aerospace Museum Field Trip:
Our final field trip is Tuesday, May 16th from 8:30am-1:00pm to the Hill Aerospace Museum. Please have your student wear their white uniform shirt for this field trip. They will need to bring a sack lunch from home as no school lunch will be available. We will be leaving the school promptly at 9am and returning to the school by 1:00pm. If you are able to chaperone the field trip please email Mrs. Nelson asap to get on the list-and if you signed up at the beginning of the year to chaperone this field please also email Mrs. Nelson. We will have our groups put together by Friday. Thank you in advance for assisting with this.
Patriotic Program:
Quest Academy first graders will be performing a Patriotic Concert on Wednesday, May 17th 6:00-7:00pm in the Q1 gym. Please have your child in the gym by 5:45pm that evening, dressed in a RED SHIRT and uniform pants. Any patriotic accessories are encouraged!! (Please avoid any tall accessories, such as tall hats, that could potentially block the view of other children standing behind your child.)
We welcome any friends or family members to join us! To show our gratitude and to honor the service of our veterans we encourage you to extend a special invitation to your veteran family members and friends.
PLEASE PLAN TO BRING YOUR OWN CHAIRS AND/OR BLANKETS FOR SEATING; CHAIR SEATING WILL BE TOWARD THE BACK OF THE GYM, BLANKETS UP FRONT.
The first grade will be performing this same concert that afternoon, May 17th, for students and faculty, please have your child wear a RED SHIRT to school, also.
Homework this week is due on FRIDAY, May 5:
1- Math Homework: Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!
**LANGUAGE ARTS HOMEWORK**
1- Reading 20 minutes per day. Click here to record your weekly reading minutes: Library Reading Minutes Log. There is no homework daily reading sheet for this week. Please make sure your student is reading daily. We begin reading timed tests with Dibels this week.
3- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities
Phonics Words:
stop
plan
skip
trip
stem
High Frequency Words:
another
one
school
Sentence:
Tom will plan a trip.
