Dear Families,
Important Information
*Please turn in your first grade fee if you haven’t already. We need to order class t-shirts before we schedule our first field trip. Class t-shirts are a safety layer that help us quickly identify our students.
*Please make sure to check your child’s take-home folder every night and discuss what we are working on in school. You may keep the completed work that comes home. Promptly return any paperwork. Also make sure to read, sign and record your child’s reading in your child’s planner nightly.
*Be sure to send a healthy nut free snack and bottle of water each day for snack time.
*School begins promptly at 7:40am each day. The children have many morning responsibilities to take care of in order to be fully prepared for the school day. That being said, please make sure your child arrives in plenty of time to take care of these tasks. If possible, I strongly encourage you to have your child eat breakfast at home. Students who eat breakfast in the cafeteria have 5 minutes or less to take care of their morning jobs which often leads to a rocky start to their day.
*We have been practicing our safety drills all week (fire, tornado, earthquake and lockdown). Talk to your child about what they do in each situation and why it is so important.
* If you would like to volunteer in the school or go on a field trip, please make sure you have attended the Parent Confidentiality Training. Below is another available date to attend.
* Classroom jobs will be given on Monday. There were a lot of students that wanted the same job. Please remind your child this weekend that all jobs to help our classroom are important. Also, we will be switching jobs during the year so they may have an opportunity later. Thank you for your support.
Our Class Parent Orientation is: Wednesday, September 9th. I am currently in a Principal Program with Bellarmine, and have class on the 10th, which is why I am having our orientation on the 9th. I will provide Confidentiality Training after our Orientation in our classroom. You will be all set! :)
*Classroom wish list:
-a big box of binder page protectors
Thank you to Mrs. Gudibanda and Mrs. Burgan for the crayons and clothespins!
What are we learning?
Word Work
Our words of the week are must, four, about. Please practice reading and spelling the sight words nightly. We are also studying vowels.
Writing
We are learning about capital letters, punctuation and nouns.
Math
This week, we are learning about collecting and organizing data into graphs.
Social Studies
This week, we are continuing to build our classroom community by focusing on the foundation of the 7 habits, and beginning to discuss Habit 1 Be Proactive
Related Arts
Monday " Thursday – Art
Friday-Music
PE shoe Reminder
text @shoeremind to 8101
Or
Email to shoeremind@mail.remind.com
Thank you for all you do,
Christie M. Horn, NBCT
First Grade Teacher
Harmony Elementary School
