Mrs. R’s Super Stars September 3rd, 2013

 Hello Families!

Wow! Can you believe September is already here? I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day Weekend spending time with family and friends. This week in 1st grade we will be starting some new things in our room!

Bible

This week we will be learning about Jacob, Esau, and Joseph. Our memory verse this week can be found in Psalm 136:1

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.  (13 pts)

Please be sure to review this every night with your child, although we have a short week they will still be tested on Friday.

Math

This week in math we will be doing a lot of review with addition, but we will also be working on word problems. This can be a challenging area of math, but I believe we will accomplish it!

Social Studies

This week we will also begin our first Social Studies unit on rules and laws. Students will learn about our community and why its important that we have rules and laws.

Science

In science we will begin learning about living and non-living things

Language Arts

This week we will focus on the short vowel ‘e’ sound as in ‘pet’.

We will also be practicing our writing, focusing on starting with an uppercase and ending with a period.

We will continue to work hard on phonics and sight word recognition. This is so important for reading. Once the students begin to recognize more sight words and learn new letter sounds, their reading will become much easier for them and more fluent.

Last week we also started library time. We will be going to the library every Friday at 2:10. During this time the students will have a chance to become familiar with our library, how we act in a library, and read!! read!! read!!

As I get more comfortable with their reading groups I will start sending home some books to read each week along with their homework.

FIELD TRIP

Our first field trip will be to Lost Lake on Friday, Sept. 17th.  We will be doing various stations of activities all of which correlate with our Science Standards.  We will travel by bus and leave People’s campus at 8:45 AM and return by 1:30 PM.  We will be needing parent volunteers for each station.  The children love this field trip!!  There is no charge for adults and the children have already paid.  Everybody will bring a sack lunch and a drink.

Take Home Folders

Please remember to ask for you child’s take home folder everyday. This is how I communicate with you and send home any important information. Also please be sure to empty the “Take Home” side each night. This is work they are doing in class and you are able to see what we are learning. If the students do not finish their work in class I will put it in their take home folders. They must complete it and return it. If the forget their folders, they tend to say “my mom/dad forgot it”. I am trying to get them away from this and learn personal responsibility. I remind them that mom and dad are very busy and it is not their responsibility to remember your folder every night.

First Time Obedience

Our class is really working on first time obedience. We have had some struggles with talking during class and listening to authority during lunch and recess. We discussed how important it is to listen the first time. We talked about why we have rules and why they are important. We also talked about how our class will not function properly if everyone is not obeying the rules. Please follow up at home with the importance of first time obedience.

Spelling Words

pet

let

get

come

apple

by

as

fed

bed

red

men

for

yes

Important Dates

9/2- Labor Day. No School

9/9- PTF fundraiser ends

9/10- Elementary school pictures

9/10- Elementary Chapel

9/13- Grandparents Day

9/17- Lost Lake Field Trip

9/18- Half day. School out @ 12 for teacher inservice

9/24- Elementary Chapel

9/23-9/27- Parent teacher conferences. School out at 12.

Once again I hope you all had a great 3 day weekend! I am looking forward to a new week ahead!!

Trust the Lord in all things!!!!

Mrs. Raymundo