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Excuse this public announcement:
On December 16 and December 17, PTA will sponsor a student activity called Music & More. Wednesday, Dec. 16th with be for Pre-K through 2nd grades. Music & More will be held in the MPR from 3 pm – 5 pm.
The PTA is in need of parents to provide baked goods (such as cookies, brownies, etc.), dollar donations, and parents to chaperone. They are looking for 2-3 parents per classroom to help with the event so if you can volunteer, please e-mail Jessica Jones, PTA president at aespta180@yahoo.com. Let her know that you are a volunteer from Mrs. Petty's 1st Grade class. Thank you so much!
We'll continue working on addition using the concepts introduced with the use of the 100 chart. We'll connect this learning to the place value unit with our tens and ones 'sticks' which helps to have students learn with understanding and concepts prior to introducing traditional 'regrouping' when adding sums over nineteen. I'll provide a 100 chart to your student to 'show' what they know at home. You'll find it in their reading bag along with their 100 sight words chart.
I invited everyone to make flash card for the 100 sight words. Please do this and place the flashcards in their reading bag. We will be using these during our 'free' time until your child shows mastery in January. If you don't have time to write on the index cards (please purchase these at the PX-small 3x5), let your child do it. Quick and fluent recognition of these helps to promote a higher level of text and improved comprehension in reading.
I've postponed the Reading Response Log until the winter holidays/break. Expect to see new books and their NEW RR Journal as we'll entitle it.
Please continue doing the on-line homework. We'll move to List #11 on Sight Words with Samson and Week #11 on Spelling City. RAZ-Kids continues to promote independent reading. Remember that if your child is reading at Level D or beyond, very little help should be given them in order to master the early reading strategies needed to be successful. IXL math should be continued with completion of Addition Concepts, and you may begin Subtraction Skills as well.
Once again, thanks for all the parental support this last week, with the making of candy trains and houses. I have such great students, and parents. We're down to 15 students, with the departure of 4 since November. I expect to be the teacher to welcome the newest four students of the year at anytime.
Have a wonderful week and keep up the support of on-line homework, reading and re-reading of the little books in the reading bags, making the flashcards from the 100 sight words list, and using that 100 chart. Listen to your child count outloud to 100, and then count backward. You may use the chart for visual help in the beginning, but we'll all work toward mastery w/o looking, by using the 'picture in our mind."
Always in learning,
Mrs. Petty
