Week of February 8th, 2010

February 8th, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,

We have school everyday this week and early day on Wednesday as usual. We will need spaghetti for our Reading Night at the end of this month. 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 letter about the event on other side of this paper.

This week we will continue SFA Reading with -ing and -ed endings. We will do the read aloud Grouchy Ladybug. We will continue an animal report. In Math, students will begin Unit 7 with attributes of shapes and shape identification as well as polygons. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Social Studies, We will learn about where goods come from and purchasing them. 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. Only do bonus words if told to.

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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