Date: October 17 th
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
Location: Castle Heights Middle School on Firetower Road.
Events: DJ, dinner, games, and a costume contest
Cost: $8 per child and $10 for adults ( $2 if you wait to purchase at the door).
Date: October 17 th Time: 6:00-7:00pm Location: Castle Heights Middle School on Firetower Road. Events: DJ, dinner, games, and a costume contest Cost: $8 per child and $10 for adults ( $2 if you wait to purchase at the door).
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It is already that time! Parent/teacher conferences. I have created a Sign-up Genius link that I will be email to you. This wonderful link allows for conferences to be schedule electronically. In addition, it will send you a reminder two days prior to your conference. I am looking forward to our discussions and the opportunity to showcase what your child have been working on in class! We have begun our shapes and measurement unit. A fun game to practice shape knowledge is "I Spy". Examples: - I spy a shape with eight sides ( when your driving your child could point out stop signs that they see) - I spy a rectangle ( child could point to street signs, bill boards, etc) In first grade we are looking at the attributes of shapes: how many sides, how many corners, is the shape closed, does it have curvy or straight lines. In addition, practice having your child draw pictures using certain shapes (draw a picture using only triangles, draw a picture using triangles and circles). The possibilities are endless. I have a few reminders. Please have your child read 20 mins a night and fill in their reading logs located inside the front cover of their homework journals. We will be starting our Pizza Hut Book It program as a reading incentive. Today was our first MAPS test. We have three more MAPs tests left. The dates of these tests are located on the behavior calendar. Make sure your child has had a good night sleep and a good breakfast. We having been learning new reading strategies in Reading Workshops. Have your child tell you about our fun strategies (owl eyes, lips to fish, stretchy the snake, trying lion) In Writing Workshop we are working on writing narratives. We have been discussing small moments in writing and enhancing our writing by unfreezing our characters. We are showing this through writing how our characters move, talk, feel, and think. Encourage your child to add details to small moments stories written at home by making characters move, talk, feel, and think. In Math Workshop we are learning how to count on starting at any number. We are also learning about the communative property (4+5=9 and 5+4=9). At home you can encourage your child to count objects found around the house, play card games, or show you the math games we have been learning (games: how many am I hiding, heads or tails, peas and carrots). In addition, continue to work on number formation by writing numbers down after counting objects. We finally presented our musical instruments. We had such a fun time planning, creating, playing, and presenting our instruments! We also had several content integration lessons via our music teacher, Mrs. Wooten. She taught us how sound is created, showed us several instruments where the sound is created differently, and gave us some good ideas for our own instrument creations! We had a very busy October 1st day! We watched a fun play put on by Duke Energy and the National Children's Theater about Natural Resources. Then we took out first MAPS test. We read all of those special notes of encouragement sent in by the parents. After that we took a tour of the neighborhood maps created by 2nd Grade for our Community Helpers Unit. We were able to interview the 2nd graders about map keys, scales, etc. What a great and productive start to October! We have been comparing numbers, working on counting objects in consecutive order when pointing to each object, and looking at the "size" of a number in comparison to another number. We have played several games over the course of these past few weeks. Ask your child to explain how to play collect twenty. The only materials you will need are twenty objects and a die. Another game that we played today uses dominos which you can purchase at the dollar store. Have your child show you how to play. These are wonderful games that will lay the foundation for adding and subtracting, which we will be learning about in the near future. Parents, We are beginning to talk about READING STRATEGIES in our class. I put these words in bold because these are strategies that your child will continue to use throughout their elementary education.....they are THAT important!!! We use these strategies in our adult life without even knowing it because we have become so fluent at using them. I would encourage your child to use these when completing their 20 mins. of reading homework at night. If your child ask for help with a word, first, ask them to show you the reading strategies that they have tried. Parents, We are beginning homework this week. The homework calendar is located behind the behavior chart in the blue take home folder. Your child should read for twenty minutes every night in addition to their written homework. Please have your child record their book in the reading log located in the front of their homework notebook. Students should spend 10minutes on homework from the calendar. Please make sure he/she is recording homework responses on the front and then back of consecutive pages. Thank you for supporting your child through their homework and reiterating what they are doing at school. Grandparents, please join us on September 30th at 11:50-12:20 in the cafeteria! Lunch is $3.25. We want to show you how much we appreciate you being a wonderful grandparent! Parents, Today we looked at punctuation marks. When you are reading at home have your child take a closer look at where punctuation is within a sentence. Have them read with expression if it is an exclamation or wonder if it is a question. When writing always ask your child what kind of punctuation will end their thought (sentence). |
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