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First News
BE Respectful, BE Responsible, BE Fair-Minded
Mrs. Brinkman [email protected]
679-9531
Mrs. Saya [email protected]
679-9530
Mrs. Workman- [email protected]
679-9548
Reading
We continue to work hard during Daily 5. Wewill be adding an
accountability piece to helpthe students keep track of what they
havecompleted throughout the week! You will see agreen sheet come
home. Use this as a springboard for discussion around what your
childdid throughout the week during Daily 5. We
have continued to practice all of the CAFstrategies:
Comprehension:
*Retell
Accuracy:
*Get your mouth ready*Do the pictures match the words?*Chunk
It!*Leap Frog*Reread*Cross CheckingDoes it look right? Does it
sound right? Does it make sense?*Flip Sound
Fluency:
*Practice my by heart, by sight, No Excusewords
Continue to practice these strategies whileyou are reading with
your child.
Writing
We are writing about our FAMILIES!!! Weare practicing writing a
topic sentence, bigideas with sentences that stop and explainand a
concluding sentence! The first gradersare all doing a great job and
we are so proudof their writing!!! Please send in a familypicture
by Wednesday of next week. We are
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going to hang this writing in the hall so besure to stop by and
check out the greatwork!!!
STAR OF THE WEEK
1B-Paige Budnick (We didnt do this week)
1S- Ryleigh Lynch
1W- Gage Norton
Homework
Thank you for helping your child returnhis/her homework! We had
nearly 100%of the first graders return homework!WAY TO GO!!!
November homework camehome on Friday. It will need to bereturned to
school by ThursdayDecember 1st! We will be eating in theclassroom
on that day!
Math
We are finishing up our Geometry unit! Thekids have been
learning about the attributes
that different shapes have. During our Mathworkshop time they
have also had to useproblem solving skills to see how they can
fitdifferent pattern blocks into a design as wellas different ways
they can fill the samedesign. Ask your child how and why we
useshapes in our world! Your childs Unit 2 pages
will be coming home next week. Please use anyunfinished pages as
extra practice and review.
WANTED
We are in need of snack! Please sendin a snack to share with the
class.
Hip, hip HOORAY for
Safety Day!!!
Three cheers for our amazingcommunity volunteers that came
in
last Thursday to share theirexpertise around safety. We had a911
dispatcher, police officers and
firefighters from Northern Colorado
come in and talk with thekindergarten and first grade
kiddos!
We had so much fun and learned a lot,especially about how
important it is toknow our phone number and address!
Please practice this at home!
TIRES AND TENNIS TUESDAY!
Dont forget to ride your bike or
scooter, carpool or walk to school on
TUESDAYS!!
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First Grade Directory
Thank you so much toStacie Davis for graciously
volunteering to put our first
grade directory together. It isalmost complete and will be
inyour hands soon!!!
Winter weather is
Here!
Please make sure your
child comes to school with
appropriate weather gear. If
there is snow on the field at
all, only children with
snowboots can play out there!
Also, please be sure to pack
tennies on P.E, day.
Food Drive
We are having a food
drive at Ponderosa! Please
bring in non-perishable food!
We are in competition not only
with our grade-level classes
but also with Mary Blair!!! They
brought in more items last
year so lets BEAT them this
year!!!!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
November 21st and 22nd: ThePonderosa staff will be involved
insome intensive training around ourglobal focus. Therefore, your
child
will not have school that day. We senthome information about
child careavailable through our Base Camp
program for those days. Let us knowif you have questions about
these
days.
November 21st: Parent
information night around the ROSSInstitutemore information to
follow
December 7th: Winter Programgrades K-5 at Thompson Valley
High
School.
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