MRS. PFEIFFER'S "HOPPING" GOOD NEWS
MAY 21ST - MAY 30TH, 2012
THEME:
We will end our year with a two week study of one of my favorite places, the ocean. We will learn about the animals that live in and near the ocean. We will discuss the different oceans in our world.
A HUGE thank you to the students for their GREAT behavior, the room parents and parents that volunteered for the events, and Coach Whaley for another AWESOME Field Day!
REMINDER: Your child can no longer charge lunch in the cafeteria from now until the end of the year. Please check your child's balance in the cafeteria on-line to make sure your child has a positive balance. Please send your child's backpack daily for notes especially Tuesday, May 29th and Wednesday, May 30th.
MATH:
This week, we will continue our unit on fractional parts. We will learn about making equal parts, describing equal parts of whole objects, making parts of a set, and describing parts of a set. We will also be reviewing what we have learned this year. We are continuing Mountain Math. Monday-Thursday, the students do approximately 5 problems daily which cover the entire first grade curriculum in math. Ask your child what he/she does in Mountain Math? Please help your child correct/stop reversing numbers. Remember to practice math facts with your child. Can your child write his/her numbers to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's? Can your child quickly give a sum for problems with sums to 20?
HANDWRITING:
We will be copying from the board. Does your child form the letters from the waistline or headline or are they forming the letters from the footline? No letter is formed from the footline. Do they have one finger space between words? Are the letters the correct size? Is your child's handwriting neat and legible?
READING:
Please continue working with mastery of Themes 9/10 vocabulary. I will test for mastery this week.
Official nightly reading homework is over. Please continue to have your child read over the summer. The library has a great reading program for the summer. I will be sending home information this week.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
We will review that we ALWAYS begin a sentence with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark of (.), (?), or (!) depending on the kind of sentence. We will continue this week with Mountain Language. Mountain Language is a program which asks students 5 questions each day covering the mechanics of language a first grader should know.
REMINDERS:
*The Weekly Work Folder was sent home on Friday, May 18th. Please return the Weekly Work Folder on Monday, May 21st with the parent signature(yellow) page, tests, and behavior card found on the left side of the folder SIGNED in the proper places. Also, have your child choose a sample of his/her work to be displayed on the GREAT WORK board. The folder will be sent again on Wednesday, May 30th. It will be sent the last day of school with your child's report card.
*Due to more rigid guidelines from the State Department, please email me or the office or send a guardian's note or a physician's note FOR EACH ABSENCE. If your child has an excused tardy note, doctor's or dentist's note, please send as well. After 2 unexcused tardies in one nine weeks, we have been asked to send a note to the parent. If you have any questions concerning these notes, please call Mrs. Banner.
*If your child is going home a different way than usual, please send a note.
If your child is riding a bus with another child home, be sure and send a note for the bus driver as well.
*If your child is tardy, please walk in and sign your child in at the office. Please note the new security system at the front door. You will buzz at the door and an office personnel will let you in.
*We will try to go out daily if weather/temperature permits. Please send a jacket or sweater daily. The jacket also helps when our room or the cafeteria is a little chilly in the morning. If your child wears flip flops or sandals to school, please send closed toe shoes for playtime and I will let them change before we go outside. Be sure to have appropriate shoes for PE which is every Friday.
* Wednesdays are our Library days. All library books are due on Wednesday. Please check at home for any missing books. We will not be checking out books for the remainder of the year.
*Be sure to collect Box Tops for Education and Campbell's Soup labels over the summer.
*Please plan to join the PTA and Booster Club next year. Both organizations have your child's learning as their primary focus.
DON'T FORGET THE FOLLOWING DATES:
Wednesday, May 23rd - Yearbook signing. If your child purchased a yearbook and would like to bring his/her yearbook, we will have a signing time on Wednesday. We will provide autograph pages for any student without a yearbook.
Thursday, May 24th - Towne Crier's Reading Awards Ceremony at 12:30-1:30.
Monday, May 28th - Memorial Day, No School
Tuesday, May 29th - 5th Grade Awards and Promotion and perfect attendance for grades 1 and 3.
Tuesday, May 29th - First Grade Lunch. The teachers will provide pizza, chips, drinks, and dessert.
Wednesday, May 30th - 4th Grade Awards and Promotion. Last Day of School.
Dismissal at 11:30.
Thursday, August 2nd - Open House for the new school year 2012-2013. Your child's new teacher will contact you the week of Open House.
I want to thank you for a good year. I hope you and your family will enjoy the summer and lots of good family time.
Yours In Learning,
Mrs. Pfeiffer
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