Old Union Elementary First Grade

Week of April 27

Don’t forget to send a HEALTHY NUT-FREE snack with your child daily!  Also, if your child’s lunch needs to be microwaved, make sure he/she is able to prepare it independently.  Thank you!

Can your child tie his/her shoes???  NOW is the time to teach him/her if not.  The second grade teachers will thank you!

Here is the encore schedule.  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes on PE days.  Fridays will be a rotation that includes PE along with music or art. 

Class	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Thomas	PE	Music	PE	Art	rotation
Evans	PE	Art	PE	Music	rotation
Graviett	Art	PE	Music	PE	rotation
Johnson	Music	PE	Art	PE	rotation

This week in language arts, we will…

·      Continue writing poetry

·      Celebrate our poetry

·      Reflect and interpret important information

·      Discover new vocabulary through a weekly read aloud

·      Categorize words to learn spelling patterns

·      Practice using proper capitalization and punctuation on paragraphs that have none.

·      Work on IStation while in computer lab.  We encourage children to take advantage of the program at home as well!

This week in math, we will…

·      continue our time unit

·      write about how and why we earn money

·      Solve problems of the day independently, then as a class

·      Participate in our math stations

·      Work on Reflex Math and First in Math while in computer lab

In Science we’ll learn about magnets.

April Events:

21^st      STAAR Math Testing (3rd and 4th Grade)

            1^st Grade Fieldtrip to Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History

22^nd     STAAR Reading Testing (3rd and 4th Grade)

            Administrative Professionals Day

23^rd      Camp Kindergarten (3:30-5:00 pm)

            OUES Spirit Night at Penn Station (2:00-9:00 pm)

27^th      Staff Appreciation Week

May Events:

1^st          OUES Spirit Shop Open

6^th        National School Nurse Day

8^th        Dragon Day

11^th      National School Resource Officer Week

14^th       Pei Wei Spirit Night for OUES

18^th      PTO Board Meeting

21^st      Magician Performance for the Campus (1:30-2:30 pm)

22^nd     Field Day at Dragon Stadium

25^th      Memorial Day/No School

28^th      All Pro Dads in the Cafeteria (7:00-7:45 am)

29^th      May, June and July Birthday Lunches on the Stage

            Relay for Life at CHS (6:00 pm-12:00 am)  

June Events:

2^nd       CiCi’s Night

4^th        Last Day of School (10:35 Dismissal)

5^th        Teacher Workday

           

This is a list of high frequency spelling words that all first graders will need to be able to spell by the end of the second semester:

an	are	because	from
of	one	play	said
that	there	they	was
went	were	when	with
your