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School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20 except on Fridays, we get out at 1:40! Bring your folder daily to school! Thank you for coming to Parent Teacher Conference last week! It was wonderful to meet with students and their families. We are so appreciative of the tremendous amount of support and concern for student success in first grade dual immersion. The long awaited volunteer sign up link is finally up and running! Please if you would like to volunteer in the classroom, use the following link! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer Fridays are always tiger pride days! Wear your tiger pride shirt, your fun run shirt or a blue or orange shirt! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Mini Pepperoni Calzones, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Breakfast burrito, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad Wednesday: Crispy Chicken Drumstick, Cheesy Nachos, Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Orange Chicken, Chicken Nuggets, Taco Salad Friday: Cheese Pizza Ripper, Pepperoni Pizza Ripper, Bean & Cheese Burrito, Turkey Sandwich Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger and Grilled cheese Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: Our question of the week is "How do animals take care of their babies?" Our story is titled "A Fox and A Kit." It is an animal literary nonfiction story. We will be talking about the main idea and important ideas of the story. We will be working on our inflected endings –s and –ing. A spelling list will be coming home with your child on Monday. We have been doing 3 of the challenge words as well as one of the dictation sentences. Everyone is attempting to do them but they are not counting against the student's demonstration of mastering the phonics skill of the week. We will also be working on writing personal narratives. We are still working on remembering our capital letters at the beginning and our punctuation at the end. We are learning more stations for our skill based instruction. ***Turn in your September Reading Calendar!*** A new one is coming home on Tuesday for October! I will also be sending home monthly practice activities for those who requested the advanced quantity discrimination, missing number fluency, as well as nonsense word fluency practice pages. If you would like them, please let me know! CHINESE: The students are still working on the first unit for Mandarin Matrix. They will continue to practice and learn the Chinese characters for numbers 1-10. Students will have some writing practice sent home as part of the weekly homework so that they can continue to develop their writing skills. Special instructions for parents will be sent home to help you guide your student in writing Chinese even if you have never studied the language! Students will continue to review topics introduced at the beginning of the school year (family, friends, animals, clothing, animals, and colors). MATH: Students have been working hard on unit 3, practicing multiple strategies with addition facts to 20. We have learned about counting on from a number, doubles, doubles plus one and doubles plus 2. This week we will begin unit 4, using multiple strategies to subtract with facts to 20. Please continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! One way is to have your child read the math equations in Chinese. It’s going to be a great first week of October!
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION Picture day is this Tuesday! Don't forget to send your picture money in! A reminder note went home on Friday! School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! We have early release on Friday’s. School lets out at 1:40! Bring your folder to school daily! Parent Teacher Conference is next week! We can't wait to meet with you and your student! Please make sure you sign up for conferences! On Friday’s, we wear our tiger pride! Come to school wearing a blue or orange shirt. Thank you for the donations to the fundraiser! We are extremely close to reaching our goal of $30,000! The fundraiser will be accepting donations through Monday! The playworks game of the week is Switch. Switch is played on a four square block right outside the 3rd grade doors. This is a quick moving game that is delightfully fun. It also uses ROSHAMBO practice. This link will teach you how to play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUG3LSUb0J8 LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Baked Potato, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Egg Roll, Mini Corn Dogs and Chef Salad Wednesday: Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich, Nachos or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Dutch Waffle, Chicken Nuggets and Taco Salad Friday: Pizza Rippers, Burrito or Turkey Sandwich. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: Our question of the week is "Who Helps Animals?" Our story is titled "Pig in a Wig" It is an animal fantasy story. We will be talking about the plot of the story as well as being able to summarize what happened in the story. We will be working on our short /i/ sound as well the consonant x/ks/. This week, the spelling words will be pretty simple for these bright students, again, so we will be practicing other words that follow the same pattern. A spelling list will be coming home with your child on Monday! We will also be working on writing complete sentences and being able to identify the subject of the sentence. We are still working on remembering our capital letters at the beginning and our punctuation at the end. We are learning more stations for our skill based instruction. This week, we will continue to be working on buddy reading and adding additional stations to the routine! We have been really successful with keeping our volume level at the appropriate volume but we are still working on staying focused with the station task at hand and completing it the whole task! CHINESE: This week, students are reviewing the topics covered in the first four weeks of school: family, friends, animals, clothing, and colors. Students will continue to focus on talking about animals they like and do not like, as well as what animals need and where they live. Most exciting of all: students will begin to learn characters this week! The first unit will cover the Chinese characters for numbers 1-10. Ask your students to share what they are learning with you! We hope your students will feel confident and optimistic as they start to develop their writing skills. MATH: We are starting topic 3 in math which is addition to 20. The students are making great strides in counting to 20 in Chinese as well as recognizing math vocabulary in Chinese. HOMEWORK: Homework is coming home on Monday. Please feel free to enrich the homework if you would like. If it is too difficult, be adapt as needed. If you would like homework, please contact Ms. Mack. Homework is usually sent home on Monday and can be returned on Friday. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! On Fridays, we get out of school at 1:40! Bring your folder daily to school! EVERY FRIDAY IS TIGER PRIDE DAY! Wear your tiger pride (or blue & orange if you haven’t received your 2019-20 school t-shirt yet)!!! Hands to self: In order to make our classrooms a safe and comfortable environment for all students, we teach students to follow our school rules of respect, responsibility, and safety by keeping their hands to themselves. This is a skill that all first graders need to work on, but we have noticed that it has been a particularly big struggle these first few weeks of school. Ms. Terry and Ms. Mack will usually not mark students down on Dojo until after several reminders have been given, but even so we are having to monitor, remind, and reteach students daily to keep their bodies in their own space. We have told students that if they continue to need many reminders, we will be contacting parents so that the positive behaviors can be reinforced at home as well. Thank you for supporting our school rules and for promoting a safe and comfortable classroom environment by practicing these social skills with your students! Toys at school: Several students have been bringing toys to school which is causing a bit of a distraction. If students are playing with toys in class, the toys will be kept at the teacher's desk until the end of the day. We discourage students from bringing toys to school because items frequently get misplaced or lost. Please remind your students to keep toys at home! Please also remind your students that if they have phone watches that they are not allowed to be texting or calling on them during the day. Thank you. Volunteering: Ms. Terry will send out a volunteer sign up in the coming weeks. Ms. Mack has already had some parents come to her room to staple and assemble math pages. Thanks to those who have reached out and are willing to come in! If anyone is interested in coming to help staple and sort math pages over the next couple of months, please email Ms. Mack! ([email protected]) Remember that if you are volunteering at the school, you must fill out a volunteer application at: volunteer.canyonsdistrict.org Class Dojo: Thanks to all those who have signed up for Class Dojo! If you don't have your child's code, please let us know. It's a quick and fun way to see how your student is doing and even get some pictures here and there! If you look at your child's student report, you may see points awarded for positive behaviors or deducted for undesirable behaviors. Fundraiser: Keep up the great work! This is our one and only fundraiser! Please do your best to share it with family, friends and neighbors (that you know)! If 90% of first grade participates, we will have an extra recess with popsicles! The goal is that each student does their best and “raises” $50. Our overall goal for the school is $30,000. If we reach $30,000, all the students will have a chance to silly string Mrs. Winfree and Mrs. Brush (AKA Ms. Megan, our first grade aide)! Each day there are special “contests” going on, please check the Ridgecrest PTA Instagram account for details! * PLEASE ALSO NOTE * the PTA is not able to accept payments via Venmo although the fun run fundraiser packet says that you can. Friday (9/13) is the fun run. PLEASE send your student in tennis shoes and comfortable clothes! The fun run is a great time! Picture Day is on 9/17. Substitutes on 9/10: Ms. Terry and Ms. Mack will be at a half day training the morning of September 10th. Please let your students know that we will be back in the afternoon, and that they should treat the substitutes with the upmost respect. Parent Teacher Conferences are also coming up, so mark your calendars! Monday September 23rd from 9:00-3:30, Wednesday September 25th from 4:00-7:30, and Thursday September 26th from 9:00-12:00 and 2:00-7:30. Please check your student's backpack for a yellow sheet of instructions on how to sign up for conferences. Sign up as soon as you are able, as the time slots fill up quickly! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Pulled Pork Sandwich, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Orange Chicken, Mini Corn Dogs and Chef Salad Wednesday: Canyons Chicken Bowl, Nachos or Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Cheese Stuffed Ravioli, Crispy Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular) and Taco Salad Friday: Cheese (or Pepperoni) Pizza, Bean Burrito or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Baked Potato, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: We are starting our first week of Unit 1! We are going to be learning about the short /a/ sound as well as the final -ck in words and when to use it. We will be reading a story titled "Sam, Come Back!" We will be using our first grade journals for the first time this week. We will be working on complete sentences. Spelling words are coming home on Monday on yellow sheet of paper! :) CHINESE: We have been working on colors and articles of clothing all week and will continue to review them as we move on to animals. If students have pictures of family pets or want to print out a picture of their favorite animal to bring to school on Wednesday September 11th, we will use them for an in-class activity. Your students are getting so good at introducing family members! We love having the family pictures up in our classroom. If you still have not sent a picture in, please do so ASAP. MATH: For math homework this week, students will review addition and subtraction strategies (count on to add, doubles, near doubles, using a ten frame, adding in any order, counting back to subtract). Students will practice using addition to subtract and solving word problems with facts to 10. We are working to create additional challenges for students who are already very comfortable with basic addition and subtraction using numbers 1-10, but are emphasizing the development of students' abilities to talk about math in Chinese. Homework: The first homework is coming home on Monday September 9th. Please feel free to enrich the homework if you would like. If it is too difficult, be adapt as needed. If you would like homework, please contact Ms. Mack. Homework is usually sent home on Monday and can be returned on Friday for feedback. Students are not required to complete homework packets or even turn them in--that is entirely up to you! Here’s to an awesome week! |
TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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