Henry Clay Elementary

First Grade Footnotes

Our focus this week, in
Language Arts: Identify nouns as people, places, or things Describe the setting of a story Create mental images to remember parts and details in a story Fundations Blend, read, and spell three sound short vowel words (example: mat) and ending punctuation.

Important Dates:

Fri. Nov. 4: Early Dismissal; end of 1st nine weeks; Hat Day- Spirit Day Tues. Nov. 8: Student Holiday- Election Day: please vote; Night, 5-8pm Thurs. Nov. 10: Veterans Day Luncheon (10:45-12:45) Fri. Nov. 11: Report Cards Go Home; Wear Red, White, & Blue- Spirit Day Mon. Nov. 14: Make-up Picture Day: Turkey Feather Competition Begins Thurs. Nov. 17: Early Dismissal; ParentTeacher Conferences-Dress Up Day! Fri. Nov. 18: Maymont FIELD TRIP! Wed. Nov. 23: Early Dismissal; Thanksgiving Holiday Break Thurs. & Fri. Nov. 24-25: no school

Oct.31 Nov.4, 2011 Issue 9

Digraphs: wh, ch, sh, th, ck (ck does not begin words)

Trick Words: has, his, as Learn capitalization, word spacing, and punctuation for sentence writing. Alphabetical order Reading in phrases for fluency Math Review and Assess

Mr. Ds Weekly Health Tip:

Substitute candy this holiday season with individual size bags of pretzels or Goldfish. Here is a great website for all ages dealing with weather, tornadoes, lightening, etc. It is very kid friendly and interesting!

Count, read, and write to 50

+/- facts (what does + or mean; neighbor facts, equalities) Solve story problems Collecting, graphing, & analyzing data, attributes, sorting, patterns Social Studies and Science Review and Assess citizenship/rules

Teacher Tip:

American Symbols, patriotic 5 senses & use of graphs to communicate data Plant characteristics (parts; edible/nonedible; life cycle) seasons Animal characteristics (needs, body covering, nocturnal)

First grade is an important time for students to develop good study habits. Take a few minutes 2-3 times a week to review the Important words to Know section of this newsletter. Your child will be seeing these words on 9 weeks tests and end of year SOL tests. Make flash cards, help your child act out the definitions, make a rhyme, connect the words with something familiar.

www.weatherwizki ds.com

IMPORTANT WORDS TO KNOW:

(These are the vocabulary words used in Social Studies, Science, or Math. It is important that your child knows these definitions.)

Instructional Focus:

*Go to this website for a fun echolocation song: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/allabout-bats/kidz-cave.html

Sentence Writing: When your child is writing a sentence, encourage him/ her to think of the entire sentence before writing each word. Between words, he/she should leave a space. After writing the complete sentence, your child should reread it to check for: proper capitalization (uppercase letters should not be used unless they are needed); spaces between words but not in the middle of words;

Review past important words to know: *citizenship *patriotic *Washington Monument *Statue of Liberty *edible *more, less, equal, greater, least, fewer