Week of November 16th, 2009

November 16, 2009
Dear First Grade Parents,
Thank you to those that sold and bought Gold Cards. as of Friday, our count is 12. Also, we are selling cookie dough and other items in the catalogue that was sent home Friday. Orders and money are due November 23rd.
We are in need of black dry erase markers to replace our current ones. They are stating to dry out. We also need wide ruled notebook paper and pencil toppers. Thank you for your donations.

We have had many students absent. If your child is absent for more than one day please get their work from me. I don’t want them to get far behind and bring their grades down. We need to keep them learning and their work completed.

This week we will learn /ou/ and /ea/ in Success For All reading. We will publish or narrative using the writing process, and the trait of organization, and voice. In Math, students will practice addition using dominoes, fact families, and number grids. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Science, we will begin our kit titled Pebbles, Sand, and Silt. In Social Studies, we will plan our petroglyphs and begin to make them.

Homework this week will be a Math worksheet each night, and reading for 20 minutes. An adult needs to sign the student’s reading log each day to show that they read each day after school. It needs to be turned in Friday.
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Monday- 5 times each of words
Tuesday- words in sentences
Wednesday- Words in ABC order
Thursday- Practice spelling test
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All children are expected to be in attendance each day unless they are ill or a family emergency arises. If you know that your child is going to be absent/tardy, please call the office at 807-9668.
If your child is absent for a total of 18 days, consecutive or nonconsecutive, excused or unexcused it is seen as truant and excessive. AAL reports all students with excessive absences to the Pima County Attorney’s truancy office. For more information about truancy, visit http://www.pcao.pima.gov/actnow.htm
Truant, unverified, unexcused, excessive excused absences and tardies affect the student’s education and increases the chances for failure. Please help us give your child the education he/she needs to be successful for the future.
Thank you,Mrs. Brown