Letter for September 7th-10th.

September 7,2010
Dear Parents,

We hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. We are looking forward to another great week with your children.

Last week we did a spelling assessment on the children to find their spelling level. The children in our classes are on different levels. This week your child will be bringing home a sheet of spelling words. These are the words that will be tested on Friday. We will select five words from their sort and test them on those. We will be looking to see if they got the pattern correct for each word. When these words are sent home they should be cut apart and sorted into the right groups and practiced nightly. We will have already done this in class, so it should be a familiar task to your child. In addition to these words we will have five high frequency words that they will need to practice. This week’s high frequency words are: has, sat, the, to and two.

Thank you for helping your child be responsible to get their homework finished nightly and helping them return their folder daily. It starts a good habit while they are young.

We have started our lessons on The Seven Habits of Happy Kids. This week we are focusing on being proactive. To be proactive means to be responsible, take initiative, choose our actions, attitudes ,and moods. It also means we don’t blame others for our wrong choices and we do the right things without being asked, even when no one is looking.

Check out our First Grade Blog, Orchardfirstgradekids.blogspot.com. We will be posting important and fun information on it through the year.

Our fluency poem this week is:

Our Classroom Pledge
I will try to do my best.
I will also try to share my things.
I will help my friends
And say nice words.
I will make the most of this day.
I am READY to learn.

Thank you for all you do for your children.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Petty and Mrs. Christensen