November Newsletter

November

REMINDERS

·         Every Wed. is P.E.  please make sure you child is wearing appropriate sneakers.

·         If you child’s method of transportation home is changing (even for one day) please email or write a note to let me know.  I cannot let them leave otherwise.

·         If ANYONE would like to donate old Halloween costumes, they will go to good use for next year’s class. 

·         If you would like to set up a conference before conference day, please get in touch with me.  I can do before school from 8:20-8:40.

UPCOMING DAYS/ DAYS OFF

 

·         Monday Nov.5^th-school closed for students

·         Tuesday Nov.6^th- Election Day: No School (GO VOTEJ)

·         Friday Nov. 9^th –We will be discussing Veteran’s Day

·         Monday Nov.12^th-Friday Oct.16^th-American Education Week *First Grade is Monday

·         Monday Nov.19^th –Conference Day *first grade does not get report cards first quarter

 

·         Thursday and Friday Nov 22^nd and 23^rd-Thanksgiving Break…gobble gobbleJ

A PEEK AT OUR WEEKS

·         Math:  Unit 2 test will fall on Nov. 14^st.  We will begin unit 3, Solving Story Problems. 

·         Reading: We will continue to use a combination of fiction and non-fiction texts.  We are also using Houghton Mifflin series to teach a variation of comprehension skills as well as reading fluency.  Our classroom will start the PACE program (Processing and Cognitive Enhancement) to develop our Language Arts skills.

·         Phonics: We have been blending and sounding out digraphs as well as continuing our short vowel sounds.

·         Grammar: We will begin to learn different parts of a sentence and speech such as nouns, adjectives, telling and asking sentences, and what needs a capital letter.

 

In other news...

Ms. Lahey's college football team is on a roll!


As most of you know, Ms. Lahey is from Albany, New York.  Fortunately, Albany was not hit too hard by hurricane Sandy, but a lot of my friends and family were effected by the horrible storm.  If you hear of ways to help, I'm sure everyone up north would greatly appreciate it:)