Henry Clay Elementary

Our focus this week, in

First Grade Footnotes

Language Arts: Understand word order in sentences. Identify complete sentences. Begin comparing telling sentences and asking sentences. Sequence events from a story. Continue reading assessments

Important Reminders:

Fundations

Blend, read, and spell three sound short vowel words (example: mat) Trick Words: a, and, the Learn capitalization, punctuation, and word spacing for sentence dictation. Alphabetical order

Tues. Oct. 4th: Watch D.O.G.S Dads Of Great Students Kick-off event 5:30! Thurs. Oct. 6th: Interim Reports go home! Please sign and return. Fri. Oct. 7th: Fundraiser DUE! Spirit Day: Wear a happy color! Mon. Oct. 10th: Student Holiday Tues. Oct.11th: PTA McDonalds Night Thurs. Oct. 13th: Moon Watch at Gandy 7 8:30

IMPORTANT WORDS TO KNOW: These are

the vocabulary words used in Social Studies, Science, or Math. It is important that your child knows these definitions.

Graph = an organized way to

display information

Edible = something you can

eat

Handwriting and Homework:

Math

Graphing Collecting Data Vocabulary: more, less, equal to, greater than, less than, fewer

If your child is writing his or her name with upper case letters in the middle, please double check their Fundations homework this week to make sure that they write their name beginning with an uppercase letter and followed by lower case letters. We have learned all of the lower case letters now, so it is expected that students will be able to write their names correctly!

Instructional Focus:

Science We are beginning an apple unit! We will learn: investigation skills using the 5

When being assessed in first grade, students earn one of three grades S, P, or N. Grades do not only reflect the number of correct answers but also the effort put forth. S = at the present time, the student demonstrated satisfactory work and put forth his/her best work. P = progressing, but needs more practice to achieve independence

senses to communicate data orally and with the use of simple graphs some plants change throughout the seasons the parts of a plant focus on fruit and blossoms plant characteristics - edible

N = not satisfactory, much improvement is needed

Do you like looking at the moon and the stars? Then InOMN is for you! Pronounced eye NOM, it is an evening of family fun brought to you by the Henry Clay and Gandy libraries. InOMN is an evening where people all over the world will gather to celebrate our nearest neighbor, the MOON! InOMN is Thursday, Oct. 13th from 7 8:30 at Gandy and will include: binoculars and telescopes to observe the moon, experiments, moon crafts, snacks, and more!

For the first interim period, there will not be a grade for Science.
Please review your childs interim, sign and return to school. If you have any questions please let me know.

Oct. 3 7, 2011 Issue 5