October 26-30, 3009

I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed time with family and friends. It’s hard to believe that it’s the last week of October!

The following message was given to us to pass along to parents:

As you know, this year, our school will be partnering with several local and global organizations. Our children will not only have the opportunity to impact their world, but to be impacted, as they are educated through their community service. Some of the community projects will be simply collecting some everyday items that we have. Instead of donating your items elsewhere, plan on bringing them to the school. The first collection will be Monday, October 26th. Items can be dropped off in morning or afternoon carpool. Here is a list of items that we are looking for:

blankets, towels, coats, pillows, toys, puzzles, school supplies, children’s books, and school uniforms your kids have outgrown. All the items can be gently used and are not expected to be new items.

Questions? Please contact Lisa Hoffman, Community Spirit Coordinator, community_spirit@blountpta.org, or at 782-3409.

READING

Our whole group sound for this week is /c/ as in cat. We will also have a Halloween related activity once a week in October. This may be in for form of a writing job or something to display in the class.

ACCELERATED READER

Thanks for helping prepare your child for AR tests. I think that at this point children can take 2-4 tests a week. Also, continue to indicate when your child is ready to test on the AR reading Log or put a sticky note on the book they are ready to test on.

MATH

We are still working on Chapter 9; Calendar Math , Graphs, Sorting, Tally Tables. Homework for this chapter will be lessons in the Practice Workbook beginning with 9. We will probably test on this chapter Thursday. Look for the review sheet to come home the day before the test.

LANGUAGE -(DOL)

We have covered rules 1-10. These rules can be found in your child's take home notebook. We will continue to practice Rules 1-10 in the sentences each week. Sentences for Friday come directly from the sentences practiced Monday-Thursday. (There may be some Thursday’s that I will give a worksheet that is related to the rule that was introduced and practiced for the week, therefore there won’t be any sentences for that day.)

**WE WILL HAVE A WORD WALL CHECK WEDNESDAY ON THE LAST THREE WEEKS OF WORD WALL WORDS.


MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION AND REMINDERS

This week is RED RIBBON WEEK! Red Ribbon week is a week where we emphasize the importance of saying NO to drugs. This is a system wide week in Montgomery.

•MONDAY - "We Are Proud To Be Drug Free" students wear red and sign pledge banner in the lunchroom.

•TUESDAY - "Sock It To Drugs and Slip Into Good Character" students wear crazy socks and slippers.

•WEDNESDAY - "No Drugs In My Future" students dress for their future careers.

•THURSDAY - "We Are Too Cool To Do Drugs" students will wear their sunglasses to shade out drugs.

•FRIDAY - "Team Up Against Drugs" students wear their favorite team's jersey.

Just in case you didn’t get the note sent home last week, the Fruit Sale has been cancelled.

*October 26 Library Day (Monday for this week only)-make sure your child brings their library book to school if they are ready to return it and check out another one.

*October 26th-School Spirit night at Five Guys

*October 30-November 4th-Book Fair held in the library

*October 29 - Signed Papers

UPCOMING EVENTS

*November 3 - PTA Meeting - 6:30

*November 6 - Mistletoe at ASF - Wear your green first grade t-shirt and jeans.

*November 11 - NO SCHOOL - Veterans Day

*November 19 - Teacher Treat Day - need a volunteer to watch the class

*November 23-27 - NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Holiday

Have a wonderful week!