October 22-26

Dear Parents,
        I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! Last week was filled with excitement as we ended our journey with Boosterthon. Our team did an amazing job at earning pledges to help build our future playground and showed great enthusiasm during the Fun Run! Thank you for your participation and help during all of our Boosterthon events.
    We also celebrated Hispanic Heritage Day on Wednesday. Ingrid and her family made us Mexican Tamales that we were able to enjoy during lunch. We also had a presentation about Spain from Marcus while he was dressed as a World Cup Champion! The students were very inquisitive about their classmates' heritages. It was a proud moment for us all, as we celebrated each other.

Here is what to expect from the curriculum this upcoming week:

Reading: Identifying the Sequence of Events in stories. Recognizing the Main Idea as well as the details that support it. Using Visualization as a strategy in reading. (creating mental images while reading or during Teacher Read Aloud)

Grammar: Identifying Months, Days, and Holidays as Proper Nouns.

Phonics: Reading, Identifying and Spelling words with l blends (glad, club, black, blob, flap)

Vowel Valley: /u/: put, mug, much, cup

*Ask your child to tell you about our adventure through the Vowel Valley!*

Science: Discussing Weather Safety. Project letter will go home this week relating to this subject.

Math: Count Forwards by 1's, 5's, and 10's, Collecting data to make a Line Plot, practicing basic addition facts.

Writing: Students will write about topics related to Halloween.

Announcements and Reminders:

• Parent/Teacher Conferences will continue this week. Please make sure to arrive on time so we can have enough time to discuss your child's progress in the 1st grade. The last day of conferences are November 2nd. If you need to change your conference time please let me know and I will work with you as best as I can to fit your needs.
• We are celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week. This year the theme is "Saying No to Drugs" Each day will be a dress-up day:

      M: Shade Out Drugs Day-Students will wear shades/sunglasses.

      T:  Sock it to Drugs Day- Students will wear mismatched/crazy socks.

      W: Put a Cap on Drugs Day- Students will wear their favorite caps to support the fight against drugs.

      R: Stay in the Game Day- Students will wear their favorite athletic apparel.

      F: Wear Red Day- Students along with faculty/staff will wear red on this day.