Old Union Elementary First Grade

Week of Oct. 22

·       On October 31^st, Old Union will have Storybook Character Parade.  Children may come dressed as a character from a favorite book.  Please make sure your child brings the book as well.  No guns, swords or other scary stuff please… We will get to enjoy reading our books during readers’ workshop.  Parents are invited to the parade.  It will take place first thing in the morning outside by the playground.  If you’d like to send a change of clothes for your child, that will be fine.

·      It’s Red Ribbon Week!

·       October 22-26

·         Red Ribbon Pledge   ***

·       I pledge to be drug free.

·       I pledge to take care of my body.

·       I pledge to be myself.

·       I pledge to stick up for things I believe in.

·       I pledge to choose good friends.

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·       Monday: Hats off to being Drug Free

·       Pledge will be said on announcements.  Students and staff will wear a hat to support being drug free. 

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·       Tuesday: Give Drugs the Boot

·       Pledge will be said on announcements.  Students and staff will wear boots to show how to give drugs the boot.

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·       Wednesday:  OUES shows good character by Being Drug Free

·       Pledge will be said on announcements.  Wear a team OUES t-shirt to show   school pride.      *** This is picture day for retakes and group pictures

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·       Thursday: I’m Voting for My Future, I’m Drug Free

·       Pledge will be said on announcements.  Students and staff will wear red, white, and blue. 

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·       Friday: Team up against Drugs. 

·       Wear a team shirt and be a team player.

In Language Arts this week, we will…

·       Revise our writing with partners

·       Fix up our stories so we can publish

·       Celebrate our writing

·       Think of new ways to read books when we think we’re finished

·       Focus on the characters in the story

·       Learn about the main idea of stories

·       Read with expression and smooth voices

·       Learn that verbs are action words

·       Practice writing sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation

·       Sort words according to their spelling patterns

In Math, we will…

·       Order numbers using place value

·       Participate in “I have, who has” to reinforce place value.

·       Create sets of ones and tens using cubes

·       Problem solve using SSM, SWA, and BSD plans

·       Participate in our math stations!  The children love playing games and doing activities that reinforce concepts that we are learning.

In Science we will be learning about soil!