The Tyler Times: 8.24.14

WEEK TWO

Next Week:

Jesus Time: Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark
Memory Work: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Memory Work
is in your child's Homework folder. It may be said any day
Tuesday-Friday. I will put a sticker next to it when it is completed.

Reading: Sticky Note Reading and Classroom Library

*Mrs. Masa will begin testing our class to find a beginning point for literacy groups.
Literacy Stations: Introduction to center time

Spelling: Lesson 1 /-at/ chunk

Phonics: Rhyming words

Alphabet: Ordering alphabet letters

Grammar: Sentences
Spelling: Lesson 1 - Practice Test Friday - List will be sent home this week.
Spelling Words: We will have a practice test on Friday
over Lesson 1 /-at/ chunk words:

hat, cat, mat, rat, sat, fat, bat, pat

Sight words: the, and

Spelling Dictation Sentence: The cat is fat.

Math: Review of numbers and shapes
Science: What a Scientist Does
Social Studies: School Community
Art: Color wheel

News and Notes:

Homework

As your child told you, we had our first homework math sheet this past week. Thank you for helping your child complete it and return it back to school. Your child will have math homework such as that, pretty much each night. Our first grade program has a "no homework on Fridays" policy. The weekends are for family time and play so homework to do over the weekend will not usually occur.

Water Bottle
Your child may bring a water bottle to school to drink during the day. Please send a bottle that has a sippy type lid that pops up to keep spills to a minimum. We have already had several spills! Some of the bottles form condensation and a great solution to that is to bring a sock or use a "cozy" to cover the bottom, then no more wet desk!

Back To School Night

It is very important that at least one parent attend the BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT this coming Thursday. I would like for you to attend the first and second sessions with me in our first grade room. (6:30-7:20pm) I know this is long, but there is a lot of new information for parents who are new to our Balanced Literacy program in first grade. If you have other children you can attend the last session at 7:30. This is for parents only no children please.

PE

On Fridays and Mondays we have PE, so please have your child's clean gym shoes in his/her backpack. The gym shoes need to be shoes that will not be worn outside and only worn inside at gym. If you are reusing an old pair of shoes please scrub the bottom to make sure the shoes are clean and free from pebbles, bark, or dirt. Please keep the gym shoes in the backpack so that the shoes are there if we go to the gym on a different day.

Purple Friday Folder

Please look in your child's purple Friday Folder each week. Please mark the church and Sunday school attendance and initial, and remove all papers inside so that I know you have looked at the Friday Folder. (Church and Sunday School is at ANY church, not just Zion.) Your child can return the folder on Monday.

Dedication Service

You are invited to the DEDICATION SERVICE of the NEW WING of our building. The services will be on the weekend of September 6 and 7. The 5, 8, and 9:30 church services will be held in the gym and the new building will be dedicated. There will be a reception following each service in the new Commons.

Hot Lunch

Since Zion participates in the National School Lunch Program, we are reviewed by the state every 3 years. Last spring, we had our Administrative Review with the state, and it was brought to our attention that we need a note from a doctor when a student requires substitutions for lunch – milk included. Please send a note from your doctor or chiropractor to the school office if your child cannot have milk.

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