Week of February 15th, 2010

February 15th, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,

This week is Love of Reading Week! We will need spaghetti for our Reading Night on Thursday. You can donate $1.00 or a one-pound package of uncooked spaghetti now, or bring a one-pound package of cooked spaghetti that night. Please read the letter about the events on the other side of this paper. Please come Thursday at 5 pm for Love of Reading Night and Spaghetti Dinner. All are welcome!!!!!!!!

Registration packets for next school year were sent home today. Please fill them out now. There will be a prize for those who bring it back in the next few days.

This week we will continue SFA Reading aw and oi. We will do the read aloud Grouchy Ladybug. We will continue an animal report. In Math, students continue Unit 7 with 3D shapes such as cones, cylinders, and prisms. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Social Studies, We will learn about the presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We will begin the new Science unit on Plants.

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.
Spelling Words: Bonus Words: Only do if told to!
1. find 1. found
2. give 2. given
3. new 3. newly
4. letter 4. postage
5. take 5. taken
6. Mr. 6. Mrs.
7. after 7. afternoon
8. thing 8. item
9. what 9. whatever
10. than 10. compare
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 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