Old Union Elementary First Grade

Week of Jan. 20th No School Monday, January 20th. DEADLINE APPROACHING:  Calling All Current & Potential  School Volunteers Beginning in January 2014, Carroll ISD will require all school volunteers to fill out a new online application and background check before volunteering in CISD buildings or working with students. School officials are encouraging all parents, grandparents or individuals who are currently volunteering or would like to be considered as a volunteer to fill out the online application to get approved. If you are just visiting a campus for a program, lunch or a party, you don't have to apply as a volunteer, you just continue using the Raptor sign-in system. But if you intend to work with students, help teachers, serve as Dad for the Day or work in the Spirit Shop, these are just a few of the positions that will require the new online application and background check first. Once you are approved, you'll continue to check in at the campus using Raptor and then report for your volunteer assignment. All of these efforts are a part of Operation SAFEdragon. Don't get caught missing out on volunteer activities or your chance to chaperone CISD field trips. It's quick; it's easy and it's confidential! Visit the district's main website today and click on the volunteer program picture on the front or go directly to http://www.southlakecarroll.edu/pages/CISD/For/For_P/Volunteer_Program   Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Thomas PE music PE art Rotation with PE Graviett PE art PE music “ Herreman art PE music PE “ Johnson music PE art PE “ In Language Arts this week, we will… Continue to write how-to books Create diagrams Make connections Learn about bossy r words Spell high frequency words Sort words to learn word patterns and help our spelling Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud. In Math, we will… Write addition sentences for sums of 1-12 Notice the patterns that emerge as we add Skip count 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) 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 Science, we will compare the ways that young animals resemble their parents. Upcoming Dates: 30th    1st Grade Evening Musical Performance 31st      1st Grade Musical Performance for the School Birthday Lunches on the Stage (January and July) February-National African American History Month 3rd-7th  National School Counselor Week 3rd         School Board Meeting (School Board Appreciation Reception)             1st Grade Conferences-Thomas and Graviett 4th        1st Grade Conferences-Herreman and Johnson 8th        Coffee with Administration (Dragon Day/PLC’s)             General PTO Meeting 12th-13th Jump Rope for the Heart 14th      Valentine Parties ***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the second semester. Second Semester High Frequency Spelling Words an are because from of one play said that there they was went were when with your