Week of May 3rd, 2010

May 3rd, 2010
Dear First Grade Parents,

We need all the permission slips returned as well as the $2.00 for the field trip by now. I am still planning for drivers for the trip until I hear differently from the director. Please send in copies of your driver’s license and car insurance if you want to drive. I am looking forward to this trip. I need all drivers’ copies of license, insurance and registration now! Some students are missing permission slips!

We are having field day on Friday of this week. We will leave for a walk to Mission manor Park at 10 am. Please sign the permission slip that is attached. I also need 5 volunteers to walk with us to the park and help with the kids and our game. Please let me know by Thursday if you can come and help. Without at least 4 volunteers we cannot go! Thank you for all you do.

This week, we will continue a new SFA Phonics program called Word Power about contractions and compound words and continue the 2nd Grade SFA Reading Program called Wings. We will do the final copy of a thank you note. In Math, we will continue Unit 10 with reviewing telling time, counting money and money story problems, and place value. We will do the part of the motion part of our Unit on Balance and Motion.

We are in desperate need of Kleenex Tissue boxes. We also need hand sanitizer. Thank you to those who donated snacks. We will need some more to get us through until the last week of school in May. Wide ruled lined paper is also something we use daily.

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:
1. pound 1. pounded
2. behind 2. reverse
3. burn 3. incinerate
4. bear 4. hibernate
5. clear 5. translucent
5. poor 6. desperate
6. finish 7. complete
7. across 8. sideways
8. tonight 9. tomorrow
10. tenth 10. hundredth


Thank you,
Mrs. Brown