Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

We have had a great week!  We have a lot of fun activities coming up in the next few weeks.

Friday Folder Papers

• Flu Consent Forms
• The flu clinic is November 5.
• We must have the form back for students to receive the flu shot at school.
• Dental Clinic Consent Forms
• Our dental clinic is December 2.  If you would like to have your student participate, we need the consent form returned.
• MU Phase II Student Consent
• Ms. Gray and Ms. Rumero are Phase II students from University of Missouri.  They will be with us the rest of the semester on Tuesday.  They will be working with students.  For some assignments, they will be working one-on-one with students.  Please fill out the consent form so they know if they can collect work from your student.  
• Counselor Letter
• Mr. Smith has been teaching the students about bullying.  This letter explains the curriculum.
• Letter about Standard Referenced Grading
• This s a letter from the district explaining the new Friday folder checklist.

Dot Day Cookies and Activities

• Dot Day is next Friday, September 13.  This is a day to find a way to "make our mark" on the world.  We will be celebrating on Thursday, September 12 due to our field trip. 
• We will talk to ways about the kids can make their mark on the world.
• As a thank you to local firefighters for how much they help our community, we will be decorating cookies to give to them.  
• The firefighters are coming next Thursday and they also give a presentation to the kids about the fire truck and their jobs.  
• If you would like to donate items for us to decorate cookies for firefighters, you can sign up here.  

Important Upcoming Events

• Thursday, September 12: Dot Day Celebration
• If you are donating cookies or supplies, please send them in by Wednesday
• Friday, September 13: Volleyball field trip
• If your student is ordering a lunch, we will send them down that morning to get their lunch.
• If your student is bringing their lunch from home, please make sure all parts of the lunch can be thrown away.  We will not be bringing anything back to school with us. 
• Tuesday, September 17: Curriculum Chat from 7:45-8:15 a
• Come see all the wonderful things the students have been doing in class so far this year.  
• Monday, September 23: KOMU Pledge
• On September 23, KOMU will be coming out to record the students saying the Pledge of Allegiance.  
• If your student would like to wear red, white and blue this day, they can.  
• Monday, September 30: No School
• Saturday, October 19: Chicken BBQ

Our Learning Next Week

• Math
• Next week, we will wrap up Unit 1.  We will be testing over Unit 1 on Thursday.
• We will then be pretesting for Unit 2 which we will start the following week.
• If you would like to practice at home with your student, you can practice identifying coins, identifying numbers as odd or even, filling in a number grid (noticing patterns when counting by 1's and skip counting by 10's) and combinations of 10.
• Reading
• We will be starting our next genre study.  The next genre we will be working on is fantasy.  
• We will discuss characteristics of fantasy stories and making inferences about characters based on their actions.  
• Writing
• We will finish drafting our realistic fiction story.  
• The kids are also enjoying writing in their free write notebook. 
• Be sure to ask them about their realistic fiction story as well as any free write stories.  
• Science/Social Studies
• We will finish learning about National Symbols.  
• We will continue learning about needs of a plant through our experiment that we started last week by growing plants with different amounts of water and light. 
• Fundations
• Next week, we will be working on glued sounds of unk, ung, ink, ank, ang and ung.  These are sounds that are tapped out as one sound when used in a word.
• First and second grade trick words were sent home with the homework packet this week.  These are great words to practice in the card.  

Have a fabulous weekend!