Wonderland in 1st Grade

Monday, January 18, 2010

Day 88th And The Music Continues

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Thank you to all families that sent donations for the six Chets Creek families that lost their homes to the fire at The Links. The school and surrounding community were extremely generous in this time of need.

Important Dates
Wed., Jan. 20th Early Dismissal @ 1:45 pm
Fri., Jan. 22nd NO SCHOOL – Teacher Planning Day
Fri., Jan.29th Report Cards Go Home
Sat., Jan. 30th Campus Clean-Up
Mon., Feb. 1st Award Ceremony @ 9:15 am
Mon., Feb. 1st Volunteer Orientation @ 7pm
Wed., Feb. 3rd Early Dismissal @ 1:45 pm

Reminders
Please return signed Field Trip permission slip, lunch order form & money (cash only) by February 8th!
Please send Scholastic Book orders with checks made payable to Scholastic by
January 25th.
Please return signed Highlights forms (no purchase necessary) by January 25th.

Reading Logs
Please return all Reading Logs ASAP so we can check to see is your child has met the Readers to Leaders goal for the second grading period.

Zoo Field Trip Chaperones
If you are planning to attend this trip with us please remember you must have a current Chets Creek volunteer badge. The next Volunteer training opportunity will be on Monday, February 1st @ 7 PM. Childcare will be provided.

WE ARE WORKING ON…
• Skills Block: Rhyming (Word Families _et, _ay,); Letter Recognition & Sounds and Letter Combinations (ay, ai, er, ir, ur, ar, ow, ou)
• Reader’s Workshop: Reading Strategies (Look at the pictures, Point to the words, Look for the smaller words in the word & Get your mouth ready); Story Vocabulary; Non-Fiction Winter, Penguin & MLK Jr. books
• Writer’s Workshop: STRETCH the word sound by sound for writing; Narrative writing and Report writing.
• Math Workshop: Calendar Skills; Math Games; Counting Strategies, Learning about Lengths, Exploring Data
• Science Workshop:Forms of Energy: Sound

This week we’ll finish updating our Reading Diagnostic Assessment.

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