Wonderland in 1st Grade

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Happy New Year 2010!

Scholastic Book Order
If you would like to purchase books from any of these forms please send in a check made payable to Scholastic with your order form/s by January 25th.

Highlights
Every year Highlights Magazine makes a special offer to classrooms for free materials. You can help us receive these materials by signing the attached form. You do not need to purchase anything. You only have to sign your name and check no you do not want to order or yes you do want to order. Please return the signed form by January 25th. Thank you.

Zoo Field Trip
On Friday, February 26th, we will be going on a field trip to the Jacksonville Zoo. Parents are encouraged to chaperone on this fun trip only if you have completed the volunteer training. Please remember to sign the permission slip and fill out the attached lunch order form before returning them to school. The money (cash only) is due on Monday, February 8th. We look forward to this great trip!

WE ARE WORKING ON…
Skills Block: Rhyming (Word Families _et, _ay,); Letter Recognition & Sounds and Words-in-Words
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 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: Earth in Space and Time: Gravity, and Forms of Energy: Sound

Reminders
Please label all lunch money with your child’s name and put it in the Home-School Folder along with any other correspondence, please be reminded that we do not check the students backpack. Thank you for your help and support.


If you have any questions or concerns regarding your child, please don’t hesitate to contact us through your child’s Home-School Folder, or by phone, or by Email.

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