October 12 Newsletter

Mrs. Bali’s First Grade News

October 12, 2012

Review of our week:

         I just wanted to thank everybody for coming to SEP’s.  Things are going well.  Our Daily 5 and Guided reading are going well.  In math we have started on addition.  This week we wrote a poem about spiders and talked about Fall.  We finished up our unit on rocks and are going to start a unit on the moon.  Mrs. Judd also did a few lessons on the sun and shadows.

I just wanted to thank all of you who have cut things out for me.  I really appreciate it.

Homework:

         Last week I did the prizes for those students who had met the reading goal.  The goal was to read at least 5 days on each reading record and turn them in.  I only had 6 students who met the reading goal.  I really need your help with this.  I have some students who have not turned in any reading records.  I still want them to he honest about their reading.  I need to have them reading every night. 

        

Reminders:

*It is so important your child is here on time, if not a few minutes early.  If they are late on a regular basis they are missing out on a lot of important things in the morning.  I would like you to check out how many tardies your child has when I send home the first progress report.

* I won’t be doing a Newsletter next week.  The spelling words I am posting will be for the next two weeks.

*Remember to keep all of your Box Tops and send them in.

* A couple of weeks ago I sent home the list of sight words your child was on.  I have had several bring back their paper and pass them off.  If you have not been practicing that list with your child, please do so.  They need to have those sight words down to read a lot of the books we are reading and it will help them move up in their reading levels as well. 

                 

Carving Pumpkins:

         I am looking for 5 or 6 dads to come in and carve pumpkins with us on Halloween.  We will do it Wednesday, October 31 at 10:30.  If you are interested and can come and help please let me know.

Upcoming Events:

·      Monday, October 15 – Picture Retakes

·      Wednesday, October 17 – End of 1^st Quarter

·      October 18-19 – No School (Fall Recess)

·      Monday, October 22 – No School (Harvest Recess)

·      October 23-26 – Red Ribbon Week

o   Tuesday – Wear Clothes Backwards

o   Wednesday – Crazy Hair Day

o   Thursday – Pajama Day

o   Friday – Crazy Socks and School Shirts

·      Tuesday, October 30 – Celebrate Parker’s Birthday

·      Wednesday, October 31 – Halloween Party 12:30

·      Wednesday, October 31 – Dad’s Carve Pumpkins 10:30

·      Friday, November 2 – Celebrate Olivia’s Birthday

·      Friday, November 2 – Family Fun Day (Lambert Family)

·      Monday, November 5 – Celebrate Hunter’s Birthday

·      Friday, November 9 – Celebrate Logan’s Birthday

·      Friday, November 9 – Family Fun Day (Holmgren)

·      Wednesday, November 14 – Celebrate Peyton’s Birthday

·      Friday, November 16 – Family Fun Day (Brown Family)

·      Tuesday, November 20 – Celebrate Santana’s Birthday

·      November 21-23 – No School (Thanksgiving Break)

·      November 30 – Celebrate Lily’s ½ Birthday

·      November 30 – Family Fun Day (Huff Family)