Just a reminder of Quest and our Mastery Grading System: 

Here 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!

Don’t forget! Those of you who signed up and made it into our First Grade Mad Scientist Art Club, it starts on Monday October 29, 2018 right after school from
3:00-3:45pm.  Our class will stay in our classroom.  Please let your students know. 

I apologize for the lateness in this post.  Tomorrow is $2 or 5 can dress down.  Your student can dress down if they bring either $2 or 5 cans.  They may also choose to wear their uniform as normal.  

The 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.

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! 
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.

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held 4-8pm on Tuesday, October 23 and Thursday, October 25.  I would really like to meet with each of you, please sign up by clicking the following link if you have not already done so: 

Parent Teacher Conference Sign Ups 

No Homework for the Week of October 15th due to the Short Week.  Feel free to enjoy some books together, practice doubles facts and have a wonderful break!

As a school, we are well on our way to surpassing our goal of 10,000 cans/items for the canned food drive. Because we have already passed the 5,000 can mark, students earned karaoke during their lunch on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Please indicate below if your student is interested in participating. Interested students will be randomly selected to sing during their lunch time. Hopefully, everyone who wants to participate will have the chance to sing on at least one of those days. Thanks again for your kindness and generosity. 

Please click here to indicate if your child would like to sing: Karaoke Lunch