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First Grade After School Clubs

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Dear Parents,

We will be starting a Mad Scientist /Art club forFirst grade on January 25th. The club will meet every Monday in Mrs. Bischoff’classroom from 3:00-3:55PM. The fee for this club will be $2.

Our club will have a limit of 15 students.  POQA will do a random selection of students who have turned in their registration form to the Q1 office by January 14th.  We will inform those who have been selected by January 19thand you will have until January 21th to turn in your fee or forfeit your space.  Students will only be allowed to participate in 1 club.

Discipline/Grades

Excessive discipline referrals or failing grades may result in the dismissal from the club.

Attendance

Please set up appointments on non-club days. Students will be removed from club membership if they accumulate more than 2 absences.

Siblings

ONLY members of the clubs will be allowed to attend the meetings. Siblings that are not part of the club should have other arrangements for afterschool care.

Sincerely,

POQA

Please fill out the following information and return to the school. Please print

I have read & understand the responsibilities & guidelines for club membership at Quest Academy

 Student Name___________________________Grade_______Teacher_________________

 Parent Signature ____________________________________________Date _________

 Student Signature____________________________________________

 

Reading Passages Link for At-Home Practice

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10 ways to become a better reader
Below is a link to some reading passages that are very similar to the ones that your student will be encountering in the upcoming DIBELS test in January.  Please use the “Level 100″ passages to help your student practice for the DIBELS test, which is a very important one-minute timed test.  Even those these are not the exact passages that will be used, exposure to similar passages such as these and a simulation of the actual timed test will prepare your child and help him/her feel more comfortable when they experience the real test. 

CLICK HERE:
http://www.haslett.k12.mi.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=11283&

Weekly Reminders

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This week we will be doing many different learning activities with our students.  We will be having a Pajama Party with watching the movie “The Polar Express” on Thursday, December 17th. Please do not send your child with blankets, pillows, or stuffed animals-we are not allowed to have them due to sanitation.  

 On Friday, December 18th we have our Winter Party 11:30-12:50.  Thank you so much for all of you willing to donate your time and resources to make this possible, the entire first grade team appreciates it so very much!  Please sign the permission slip below if you have not already done so: 
Winter Party and Activities

Pg45c_color1- ***THURSDAY- All Homework DUE

Pajama Party on Thursday to watch Polar Express.  We are unable to have the children bring blankets, stuffed animals, or pillow due to sanitation.

 **FRIDAY-Winter Party 11:30-12:50, Dress Down Day, and Early Out.  

2- TUESDAY: Library Day.  Your child will be bringing home a paper quilt square to complete and return.  It will be used to create a Quest Diversity Quilt.  Information will be coming on Tuesday from our librarian, Mrs. Anderson.  

3-  Help us earn playground equipment by collecting Box Tops and Campbell’s soup labels.

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Scholastic Book Orders

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 I just wanted to let you know that I will be placing the Scholastic Book Order much, much earlier this month so that you will be able to receive your books before Christmas break!   If you place an order after this time, you will still receive it, of course, but it may not be received until after we return from the break. 

If you are ordering books for a gift, please let me know and I will allow you to come pick them up in the classroom so they can remain a surprise. 

Please have all online orders in by this Friday, December 7th!

If you are ordering online at scholastic.com, our Class Activation Code is N8TKQ.
Thank you!

A Special Visitor!

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We had a visitor, Miss LaRue, from Lotus Park Assisted Living, come to read books to our first grade today!  We loved Miss LaRue right from the start – with her cheery smile LaRue was an instant success!  She shared with us some Christmas Traditions she had as a little girl who grew up in the Depression Era.  Ask your kiddo’s what she would get on Christmas.  

Lotus Park Assisted Living is our first grade community partner.  We will be doing a couple service projects for them this year and we will be inviting the veterans from Lotus Park Assisted Living to our patriotic performance in the spring.

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Please use the “Daily Low Temperature” as a guideline when dressing your child for school!

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Hello, Fabulous Parents!

We have had some bitter cold temperatures right before school and during morning recesses lately, and I am a little concerned about some of the cold kiddos I have seen!  Most kids are appropriately dressed, but some kids have very little outerwear and have even expressed to me how cold they are!

Here are a few things to bear in mind when deciding on outerwear for school:
  • It is often well below the daily high temperature when the children are waiting outside for school to start and during morning recess.  Please do not use the daily Freezinghigh temperature as a guideline for choosing outerwear!  Try to imagine yourself standing outside in line for 5-10 minutes in the early morning frost and imagine what you’d like to be wearing!
  • We only stay inside for recess (and before school) when the temperature is below 20 degrees.  So, that means that your child will often be out in below-freezing temperatures! Please dress accordingly.  The students’ cubbies are plenty big enough to house all manner of outwear, including hats, gloves, scarves, boots, etc.
I absolutely adore your children and I want them to enjoy their recesses as much as possible!  We did have an anonymous parent donate some hats and mittens for any children whose families may be experiencing financial strain; I am unsure of who may have a need, so please let me know by e-mail if you have a need for a hat or mittens.  Thank you so much!

Homework 11/30-12/4

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1- Math Homework:  
Complete the ODD problems on the math homework pages.
**You can practice your subtraction and addiction math facts with your child this week using FrontRow Ed or Xtra Math.  Or using any of the subtraction facts games and activities listed below. 
*Practice your math facts (addition and subtraction) regularly by utilizing any of the math facts activities listed here: Math Facts Activities (You might try activity #7: Front Row Ed Fact Practice if you haven’t already.  Students who don’t like being timed are really liking this one!  Our class code is tcri3k)
  
2- Reading 20-30 minutes per day, record on reading log on our Weekly Homework form. There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Buddy books” from school, books from home or the public library and our online reading program Raz-Kids.  Our class Raz-Kids login is: anelson74

Remember we are working on earning “Book It” Pizza coupons.  Students will receive their FREE personal pizza coupon when they have read 80 minutes a week (or more) for 4 weeks.  Click here to print the November reading log: Book It Reading Log = Reading Log is Due November 30th for Book It Reward Coupons Prize.  
Click here to print the December reading log:  Book It Reading Log 

Reading minutes can also include books from the category list for the library “Tower of Book Challenge”.  For more details on this challenge click here:  Tower of Book Challenge

3- Timed fluency practice worth 20 points. For this week’s fluency page click here: Timed Reading Fluency Practice
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader.  It will also count toward your 20 reading minutes.  Time your student for one minute.  Record the number of words they were able to read in one minute. 

High Frequency Words for this week are:
so
people
them
other
more
REVIEW WORDS:
some
would
about
SENTENCE
He is not by her.

SPELLING SENTENCE  7 POINTS POSSIBLE ON TEST (1 point for each correctly spelled word,  1 point for beginning the sentence with an uppercase letter, and 1 point for the correct punctuation mark at the end of the sentence.)

SORT GROUPS: 
RED GROUP: Payton E, Bryton
PINK GROUP: Leah, Peyton S
YELLOW GROUP:  Charlie, Kaylee, Brynn, Kyler, Owen, Jessica, London, Isaac, Isabella, Jake, Saelim, Tegan, Clay, Hannah, Spencer
GREEN GROUP: Bryker, Rosa
BLUE GROUP: Kathlyn, Tenaya, Alexa, Athena
PURPLE GROUP: Adalai