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.
The 1st Grade Halloween Party will be Wednesday, October 31 at 11:30am. Please complete the online permission form: 
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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. 
I will be sending home their moon journal (paper) this Friday. I’ll put it in your student’s homework green homework folder. PLEASE START RECORDING THIS FRIDAY. This 3 week project will give your student the opportunity to observe and record the phases of the moon. If there is a day(s) that they can’t see the moon, because it too cloudy, you can look at it via a link on our blog (bottom right side under the Math/Science links). It’s says 2016 but it’s not and when you go to the web page you can key in 2018. It will have a picture of what it looks now where you are living… It also has a ton of other interesting facts you can discuss with your student. FYI, the next full moon is supposed to be on October 24th with the new moon on November 7th.
