Week of Oct.14
Pictures…Please
return your orders no later than October 16th. Student club photos and
retakes will be on Thursday, October 17th. If you wish a retake for your
student, please write "Retake" on the proof and return by October
16th.
Book Character Day
Parade! Thursday, Oct. 31. Have your child dress as a favorite
character. First thing in the morning,
we’ll all parade around the playground.
Wait for us outside and you’ll see us!
Don’t forget to send the book. We’ll share with the class and get to
read them during reading workshop. (no
scary costumes or weapons…)
Our Encore schedule so
that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important
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Tues.
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Wed.
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Thurs.
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Fri.
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Thomas
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PE
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music
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PE
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art
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Rotation with PE
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Graviett
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PE
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art
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PE
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music
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Herreman
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art
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PE
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music
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PE
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Johnson
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music
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PE
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art
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PE
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In Language Arts this week, we will…
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Think about most important part of story and add
details to it.
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Reveal the internal stories (reactions, thoughts,
feelings) in our writing
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Write effective story endings
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Use our reading strategies and stay focused for
longer periods of time
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Describe the characters in our stories
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Learn about nouns and pronouns
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Sort words to learn word patterns and help our
spelling
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Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud. We
will be introduced to 3 new words. All
week, we’ll keep track of when we use them in our writing, speaking, or see
them in our reading. The new words will
be posted so that we will have a reference for future use.
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Read word family poems to reinforce the patterns
that many words have
In Math, we will…
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Showing
numbers with ones and tens
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Write
numbers 0 to 99
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Write
numbers in different ways
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Continue
to solve our problems of the day. We use
“CUBES” strategies. (Circle the numbers,
Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our
work)
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Visit
our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces
concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child
will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.
In Social Studies, we will learn
about landforms and bodies of water.
Upcoming
Dates:
Upcoming
Events in October
10/17
Picture Day (Student Clubs and Individual Retakes)
10/18
Dragon Day (not
the best day to come to lunch- your child will have a different lunch time…)
10/20
PTO Online Auction Begins
10/21
National School Bus Safety Week
10/23 First Grade Family School Night 4:00-5:00
(McDonald’s on 1709 at Davis by Hobby Lobby)
10/25
Dragon Dash!
Play It Forward Equipment Drive at Dragon Game (StuCo)
10/27
PTO Online Auction Ends
10/31 Book Character Day!
***Here are high frequency words
that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by
the end of the first semester.
First Semester High Frequency
Spelling Words
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all
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as
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be
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but
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by
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for
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had
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have
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he
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his
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not
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on
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or
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this
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to
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what
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