Week of April 5th, 2010

April 5th, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,
I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Spring Break. My family enjoyed spending time camping at Roper Lake, hanging out at home, and celebrating Easter at a carnival and at church Sunday.
This week we will continue start a new SFA Phonics program called Word Power and begin the 2nd Grade SFA Reading Program called Wings. We will prewrite and draft an informative paragraph about Bats. In Math, we will begin Unit 9 with number grids, number patterns in the number grid, adding and subtracting 10, and adding two digit numbers. We will study our phonograms and spelling words in Spelling. In Science, we will continue with balance by making a mobile.
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 Thursday. There will be homework of Spelling five times each word on Monday, each word in a sentence on Tuesday, ABC order for Wednesday, a practice spelling test for Thursday. Spelling test is on Friday.

Spelling Words: Bonus Words:
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10. 10.

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