Thursday Check-In

It was a super speedy day today! Your first grader worked hard and should be pretty worn out this evening. Picture day was great. Thank you to everyone for returning their envelopes today. I am still missing 4 permission slips for next week's field trip. If you have not sent it back, please try to do that tomorrow! Thank you also to those of you who already returned your conference request forms! You are on the ball! As soon as I have all of my forms back, I will make up a master schedule and let you know your definite time slot. If you haven't already done so, please return that form tomorrow, too. The kids have learned something new today--ask them about ROOT WORDS and endings! Your first grader should be able to tell you what a root word is. If they forget, they are bringing home a little flip book they made today to help them remember. Please be sure to ask your child to tell you what they know about root words and see if they can give you an example (they can use their flip book for help!). We have also been learning about characters this week. Today we created a poster of characters from the story "A Bad Case Of Stripes". Have your child explain why one character in their story is bigger than the others. In math, we have been working hard on our + and - fluency. Tomorrow we will show what we know and try our luck at our first real timed test! The kids will be expected to answer + and - problems of + or - 1 or 2 in one minute and 15 seconds. Extra practice at home will help your child find further success. We have also worked hard at going back and double checking our work. Be sure to ask your child how they feel about these timed practice tests...Did you remember that tomorrow is Movie Night? Third grade will be hosting our second movie night and we will be showing the original Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. We would love to have all of our friends there, so if you can make it head on over! Study those spelling words tonight for our big short /o/ spelling test tomorrow! Enjoy this summer-like night!