Week of January 25, 2010

January 25, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,
We have school everyday this week and early day on Wednesday as usual. We are going to set goals for ourselves for school that we plan to live up to by the end of the school year in May. We will evaluate them each month to see if we are on track to complete them.
Thank you to Gabriel Romero, and Amara for the black dry erase markers to replace our current ones. Also, thank you Aaliyah for the wide ruled notebook paper, pencils, and glue sticks. We could also use drawing paper to pain on. Thank you for your donations.
This week we will continue SFA Reading with /er/ and a read aloud of a The Tortoise and the Hare. We will complete our Martin Luther King Jr. Report. In Math, students will continue Unit 6 in Math about quarters, telling time, and rule routine. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Social Studies, We will finish our Martin Luther King Jr. booklets.
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. Please do you Spelling homework of five times each word on Monday, each word in a sentence on Tuesday, spelling words in ABC order on Wednesday, and a practice test on Thursday. Spelling test is on Friday. Only do bonus words if you get 100% on Monday on the Pretest.
Spelling Words:
1. block
2. spring
3. river
4. plant
5. cut
6. song
7. sing
8. sang
9. sung
10. winter
Bonus Words: blocking, sprung, ocean, planter, cutting, melody, singing, rhythm, beats
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.
Students began receiving a daily reward for attending school and being on time. They also receive a daily reward for doing their homework: math, and spelling are required. We are approaching the 100th day of school, which is a day the state decides funding for our school. It is based on attendance. The more students attending school daily means more money we have to spend teaching students. Also, we want your children to have the best opportunity to learn. They can only learn if they attend school. Thank you for helping me teach your children affectively.
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
Thank you,Mrs. Brown