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Click on music notes to hear the Armed Forces Medley. Take Your Hat Off When the Flag Goes By
Quest Academy 5K and or Fun Run and Breakfast with Santa
We invite you to join us for these amazing events. Click on the link to register online:
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Reminders for November 5th-8th
Homework due
*Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants)
2- Please return GREEN homework folders daily.
3- The annual Reindeer Run 5K and Fun Run is Dec. 1st! For those who may not be interested in running, a Polar Express Breakfast with Santa will be available ($12 for adults and $8 per child). This breakfast will include pancakes, hash browns, bacon, and juice. This price will also include a photo op with Santa and all you can drink at the hot chocolate bar. This is a community event, so feel free to invite friends, family, and neighbors. Here’s a link to our online registration.
4- Look for BOX TOPS on the items you use every day, then clip and send to school.
5- Scholastic Book Order. Want a great gift idea…buy some books for your student and increase your home library. Orders for November are due on the 30th. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2: Scholastic Book Club
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Weekly Reminders
Homework due
*Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants)
2- LABEL belongings. Please label lunch boxes, sweaters, jackets, water bottles, etc.
3- Please look for BOX TOPS on the items you use every day, then clip and send to school.
4- Scholastic Book Order. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2: Scholastic Book Club
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Helping Hands for Halloween
THANK SO VERY MUCH to all of you who are have donated your time (and energy lol) to help in our classroom. It is very much appreciated. Below is a list of parents that I have confirmed to help in our room with the party tomorrow. If you don’t see your name, but would love to come in and help, just know that you are more than welcome too join in the crazy fun we’ll be having.
Max-Sarah
Serenity-Jennifer
Dyson-Alyssa
Rylee-Breann
Kilynn-Vanessa
We will be making a very simple bat hat.
FIRST: Students will write their name on the inside of their GREEN word strip. They then staple their word strip to make a crown that fits their head. They will need your help to do this.
SECOND: Each student will use a simple bat wing pattern to trace 2 wings (Using a white crayon) on a sheet of black construction paper. I only have enough for each child to have one sheet of construction paper.
THIRD: They will CUT out their BLACK wings.
FORTH: They need to staple their wings onto their crown (word strip). They will need your help to do this.
I will also be showing a little movie in case they finish early. We only have 20 minutes (including the 5 minute transition) in each class before they rotate to the next 1st grade class. As soon as the kids finish, I need parent volunteers to help set up for the next class.
ALL Parent volunteers will be staying in their student’s room the entire afternoon helping with that particular class activity. Thanks again for your willing to help our kids have a super fun, memorable Fall/Halloween day!
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Homework for October 29th-November 2nd
1- Math Homework:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE NEW FLUENCY PASSAGE or THE RETELL ROPE. USE IT TO HELP PREPARE YOUR STUDENT FOR JANUARY DIBELS TESTING. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers use to problem solve the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together, then using the retell rope, have your student tell you what they read in order of event of infotmation.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY
**** AGAIN***POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY. Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.
PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.
3.-Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). I am sending home a “Fast and Fluent” page for your student to practice reading this week. There are 10 words and 10 sentences that your student needs to read daily. Have your student do 3- 1 minute timings each day on the words and sentences then, record how many words they read CORRECTLY in each one minute timing, NOT how long it took them to read it 3 times. Let me know if you have any questions. The goal is to get more words read correctly each day with each timing. The time they spend reading can count toward their 20minutes.
These sentences contain words that focus on the phonics concept/sounds we will be working on that week. They also help students with what correct sentence structure should look like. This week it’s words that focus on the short /e/ sound as in leg, men and head. There are also a couple High Frequency words we will be reading and talking about.
- A letter titled “Dear Family” will be sent home in your child’s green take-home-folder (Monday). 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, I need YOUR SIGNATURE on the math homework as well as your student’s, indicating you did this activity with your child**I also need to see their work.
- Optional: for extra math practice, play any of these Math Fact Activities 2018
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE NEW FLUENCY PASSAGE or THE RETELL ROPE. USE IT TO HELP PREPARE YOUR STUDENT FOR JANUARY DIBELS TESTING. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers use to problem solve the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together, then using the retell rope, have your student tell you what they read in order of event of infotmation.
TUESDAY-THURSDAY
**** AGAIN***POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY. Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.
PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.
3.-Daily Reading Fluency (available in the Green Homework folders). I am sending home a “Fast and Fluent” page for your student to practice reading this week. There are 10 words and 10 sentences that your student needs to read daily. Have your student do 3- 1 minute timings each day on the words and sentences then, record how many words they read CORRECTLY in each one minute timing, NOT how long it took them to read it 3 times. Let me know if you have any questions. The goal is to get more words read correctly each day with each timing. The time they spend reading can count toward their 20minutes.
These sentences contain words that focus on the phonics concept/sounds we will be working on that week. They also help students with what correct sentence structure should look like. This week it’s words that focus on the short /e/ sound as in leg, men and head. There are also a couple High Frequency words we will be reading and talking about.
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Halloween Parade and Party
We are having a Halloween Party at 11:30. If you didn’t sign up to help, but would still like to volunteer, please let us know. Our classroom will host a Halloween craft and game. It’s always nice to have extra hands
We are requesting a $12 donation for the three holiday parties we will host this year (Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine’s). These donations help pay for party costs such as; sugar cookies and supplies to decorate the cookies as well as supplies for other activities associated with the parties. You may pay $4 for the Halloween party or you may pay the complete party donation of $12 now at the Q1 office.
Please complete the online permission form if you haven’t do so yet: Halloween PERMISSION FORM
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.
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Postivie me Week October 29th-November 2nd
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0/29 – Monday: “Scare Away Bad Health” Hat’s off to being Healthy!
(Hat day)
10/30 – Tuesday: “Scare Away Bullies” Be unique and don’t follow the crowd!
(Team Jersey)
10/31 – Wednesday: “Scare Up Some Fun”
(Halloween Costume Day)
11/1 – Thursday: “Scare Away Negativity” Be a hero and stand up to Negativity!
(Superhero)
11/2 – Friday: “Scare Away Drugs”Become a better you by being Drug FREE!
(Crazy Hair Day)
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Reminder: Mad Scienctist/Art Club starts Monday October 29th
If you are signed up for club, we are meeting from 3:00-3:45 on the following Mondays: Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 12, Nov. 26, Dec. 3 and Dec. 10. We can’t wait!
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Weekly Reminders
1– FRIDAY: *Bring $2 or 5 or more food cans for Dress Down Day (Student participation is optional. Students are welcome to wear a Quest Spirit shirt with uniform pants or traditional uniforms).
2- Upcoming:
Early Out- Wednesday, October 31st
3- We are requesting a $3 donation to help pay for party supplies. You are welcome to donate $9 for all three holiday parties now (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s).
4-The 1st Grade Halloween Party will be Wednesday, October 31 at 11:30am. Please complete the online permission form if you haven’t do so yet: Halloween PERMISSION FORM
5- Scholastic Book Order. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2: Scholastic Book Club
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