Dear Parents,                     May 11, 2015

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope all enjoyed their gift.

This week in first grade, we are learning…

Language Arts: We have concluded theme 9 and are moving right into our last theme- Theme 10! Our reading strategy this week is predict/infer. The comprehension skill that will help us with this is predicting -using the text, pictures, and our own prior knowledge will help us predict what may happen in the story. Our phonics focus this week is on r-controlled words. This is a vowel + r (such as turn, girl, fern) and the -or and -ore sounds (as in born and store). Our grammar focus is describing what we hear.

Spelling: We have finished our spelling book! For the remainder of the school year we will be completing spelling activities in class as we practice all we have learned thus far.

Math: We will be taking our test on Monday as we were unable to take our test last week. We will be working on Unit 10, once we complete our test. This unit is a lot of review. This week, we will be reviewing fractions, number stories, money and fact families.

Religion: We will be reading from our religion books this week: The Holy Spirit Helps the Church.

Science: In science we are still learning about matter! However, this week we will discuss changes in matter.

Social Studies: On Monday we will be taking our Unit 4 test. We will continue on with Unit 5: My Country, My Heroes.

Homework for the Week:

  • Monday: No Homework J
  • Tuesday: Math Worksheet
  • Wednesday: Math Worksheet
  • Thursday: Math Worksheet
  • Friday: Read 2 Times

Reminders for the Week:

  • Last day to order In-N-Out and Dippin’ Dots is on Monday! No orders will be taken after this date.
  • Santa Barbara Zoo permission slips will go home on Monday!
  • PE Uniforms on Tuesday and Thursday!
  • Please remind your child to bring their library book on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
  • Wednesday is our Intermediate Grades Spring Show at 6:30pm in Biedermann Hall.
  • Friday, the In-N-Out truck and Dippin’ Dots are here! WooHoo!! The truck will be here around 11:30. If you ordered from one or both of these trucks, then your tickets will be at a table located in front of the script office. Your student’s ticket will be delivered to them. We will have our lunch and then we will pick up our dessert. Please bring blankets, as we will be sitting on the grass.
  • Friday is also a full-day!

Have a great week!

Ms. Manning

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