14-20 March 2011
Welcome Back!
I have all but 3 student's permission slips and 6 Euro for the Study Trip next TUESDAY to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for lunch. Thank you for all the volunteer chaperones who will accompany us. We should have a great time and we're, of course, hoping for a sunshiny day! If it is raining so hard that we can't walk safely, the trip will cancelled and not rescheduled. Please excuse the error in my saying Wednesday! There is NO Aviano Market on that DAY. It's Tuesday, of course. We'll depart from the school No Later Than 10:00, so join us a bit before that. Thanks, once again for sending in the required permission and Euro.
A few parents have asked if they are able to bring a sibling along. It is school policy that you are not to have any other children other than those in our class. This has to do with a supervisory responsibility to those who have been given signed parent permission, and those not involved in AES enrollment are not allowed to accompany us. Sorry about that.
Our week is filled with much learning, once again, which includes:
Story Selection: The Lady in the Moon
Author: Lily Wong Fillmore
Illustrator: Lin Wang
Skills:
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Reality/fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix-up
Study Skill: Glossary
Spelling/Phonics: -ie & -igh (Long I) and Kn /n/ & wr /r/ beginning sounds
Language/Vocabulary: Homophones: Words that sound the same, but have different meanings: ex: sea/see; tea/tee, etc.
Grammar: Adjectives for What Kind
Writing: Poster
Math:
We're reviewing time and calendar. We'll take our chapter test by Friday and continue on with others that have been untested. Today we learned about the 60 minutes in 5 minute increments and how the short hour hand works. The students did a great job with this task. Your help at home will be such a great assistance. The more practice they have reading an analog clock the better they'll be at understanding time. Thank you so much.
Other:
We're looking forward to our field trip and continued preparation occurs each day for our re-accredation visit with the U.S. Advance Ed team that will be visiting our school during the first week of May. This week, the 3rd-5th graders are taking their annual standardized test: Terra Nova. We're being extremely considerate of the students that are being tested and are on our best, and most quiet behaviors since the beginning of the year.
I am inviting you to come by and pick up the castles. I am keeping a few for display in our classroom. Consider it a problem to me only, in that I just can't let them ALL go!
Our next family/home project will be somewhat simpler and will be coming home mid-week. The instructions/due date and particulars will be attached.
Thanks for all your continued efforts. We must continue to work together for the good of your child. Let's increase the reading and responses in their logs, pay attention to how they 'sound' when they read and ask questions about what they're thinking during and after they read.
The homework web-sites are also a great place to strengthen your child's academic work. Please use the links to help with mastery of all first grade benchmarks in Reading, Writing, Math and other skills.
Have a great week:
Here are this week's spelling words: (have fun with this week's words on Sampson's Classroom links)
1. lie
2. tie*
3. high*
4. might
5. right
6. night*
7. bright
8. light*
9. pie
10. tight
11. above*
12. laugh*
*Starred words are also in the story selection: The Lady in the Moon
Mrs. Petty
