January 2016
Grade 1 Newsletter
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Welcome back to our new school year and we wish all of you a Happy New
Year. To start off our year, the students will continue to work on their weekly
spelling exercises and reflecting on their New Year’s resolution. We are
continuing to practice retelling stories in order, read aloud and having
guided reading sessions and writing. Please continue to assist your child in
his/her reading and the guidelines to go with it for fluency as well as assisting
your child with the high frequency words for grade 1 given to you in the fall
or words of the week written in the agenda in order to help assist your child
learn to be a better reader. Please review these frequency words on a
weekly basis by having it written on a flash card to reinforce these key words
and having your child practice these words through printing.
Students will continue to receive a home Snuggle-Up leveled book to read
on a daily basis as well as their Chime-In Duo-tangs which will be given to
them on Friday. These Snuggle-Up books are to be returned to school on
Friday and Chime-In duo-tangs are to be returned on Monday and your
child will be given a new book or work sheet to help with their reading.
This winter has been really cold! We are reminding all the students to dress
appropriately to the weather conditions. It is recommended that your child
wears waterproof gloves or mittens, snow pants, winter hat, winter scarf,
sweater and Velcro slip on winter boots in preparation for the colder
climate. Remember to also send extra clothes, underwear, and socks to
school if your child needs to change into them. Please continue to leave
gym shoes at school for indoor use as well. We recommend sporty Velcro
running shoes rather than slip on types or dress shoes for indoor gym
activities which are better for traction control. You are welcome to donate
Kleenex boxes to the class as they are well used this season as well as
anything you find useful for classroom learning or activities as we always
enjoy something new to explore.
Aside from the VLE website given to you, the class calendar and monthly
newsletter can also be viewed at the school’s homepage under Mrs.
Brown’s class.
Let us start a great New Year to assist your child to learn and grow. If you
have any questions or concerns, please contact me or write me a note as I
check your child’s agenda on a daily basis. Thank you for assisting your
child and preparing him/her for school. Your co-operation and
consideration is greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Brown
Grade 1 Teacher
Upcoming Events
Mondays
Return Chime-In Duo-tang
Music and Science
Tuesdays
Subways
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Gym Days (Gym shoes needed)
Wednesdays
Pizza Days
Science
Fridays
Return Home Reading
Science
Library Days (book exchange)
Computer
Monday, Jan. 18
P.D Day – No School
Tuesday, Jan. 19
Social Studies Project Due
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