Week 23

Happy Monday, 1C families,

This Friday is field day!  Please read the announcements below carefully for important information regarding attire, items needed and volunteer opportunities. Field day presents a wonderful opportunity to practice sportsmanship and perseverance. Please discuss these two important virtues with your child to ensure a successful field day for all! We are looking forward to an enjoyable day.

Have a wonderful week! 


In pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,


Sarah Kaye



Calendar

Thursdays, January 31^st: Poetry recitation

Friday, February 1^st: Athletic Field Day. Please see the announcements below for important information regarding field day.

Friday, February 1^st: Library books are due. Students can return them earlier if they like.

Friday, February 8^th: No school  



Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute; recitations on Thursday), practice rocket math (1 minute) Phonograms: ee, ai, ay, ng, gn, kn, aw, au, y, k

Monday: see, seen, felt, full, fail, set, setting, stamp, light and test B 

Tuesday: come, coming, night, pass, shut, ease, easy, bone, cloud, draw, drink and WB pg. 38-40

Wednesday: review all words; Spalding test on Thursday due to Field day and WB pg. 41-43

Thursday: WB pg. 44-46

Friday: read for 15 minutes (book of your choice) 



Announcements

 Please bring in the book A Bargain for Frances by Tuesday for literature

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 1st from 8:30-11:00 for K-2.

Attire

Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their team. This year, your child’s team is Athens, and our team color is BLUE. Your child may wear a plain blue shirt (no logos) with their athletic bottoms or they can create a shirt with our Greek City State name and logo. Please ensure that your child wears sunscreen, and athletic shoes.

Snack and Class Volunteers

1C has both volunteer slots filled for field day, but we still need someone to bring in Apple slices for snack during field day. If you would like to supply the snack for Friday please sign-up here to help out! This is such a fun event and we thank you for helping out!

Volunteers for the Athletic Field Day Events

 Coach Gethings &Coach Warren need volunteers setting up and running the event. Please sign up here to help with the events. 

Lunch

There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day. Please send your child to school with a lunch on this day.


Academics

Poem: I Know The Sounds That The Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky (recitations this Thursday) Idiom: Let The Cat Out of The Bag

Spalding: Due to Athletic Field day on Friday, this week we will only have 20 words Spelling Test on Thursday!

Monday: see, seen, felt, full, fail, set, setting, stamp, light

Tuesday: come, coming, night, pass, shut, ease, easy, bone, cloud, draw, drink

Phonograms: ee, ai, ay, ng, gn, kn, aw, au, y, k

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from The Light Princess by George Macdonald.

Grammar: We will begin learning about adjectives this week. We will practice describing nouns and coming up with special details to use in our oral and written language.

 Math: We will continue to explore double digit addition as we make groups of tens and add ones. Students will explore two-digit numbers as they learn how to identify the place value of tens and ones. On Friday, students will participate in various math activities to celebrate the 100^th day of school!

Literature:  This week we will begin reading ‘A Bargain for Frances’. Please ensure that your child brings their copy to school. Thank you!

History: We will learn about the importance of the Inca Empire as we finish our unit on early civilizations. On Wednesday we will learn what a quiqu is and the kids will have the opportunity to make one of their own.
Science: This week we will continue our adventure through the human body with the circulatory system! We will learn how blood can travel all around our body, through our arteries to transport blood away from our heart and through our veins to bring blood back to the heart. 

Week 22

Week 22

Good Morning 1C Families!

I hope you all had a nice relaxing three day weekend.

We have a few exciting upcoming events so please be sure to read the announcements below to stay in the loop! Have a wonderful week!

In pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,

Sarah Kaye

Calendar
Friday, January 25^th: 100^th day of school! J Please see announcement below.

Friday, February 1^st: Athletic Field Day. Please see the announcements below for important information regarding field day.

Friday, February 8^th: No school  

Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute)

Phonograms to practice: ou, ur, ea, ei, oo, sh, si, igh, i, ti 

Tuesday: behind, around, burn, camp, bear, bare, clear, clean, spell, poor and math WB pg. 30-32

Wednesday: finish, hurt, maybe, across, tonight, tenth, sir, these, those, club and math WB pg. 33-35

Thursday:  Review all 20 words and phonograms and math WB pg. 36-37

Friday: read for 15 minutes (book of your choice) 

Announcements
100th day of school: In honor of the 100th day of school, students are encourage are encouraged to fill a sandwich size bag with 100 items.  Items can be the students choice but need to be large enough to be sorted but small enough to fit in a sandwich bag.  

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 1st from 8:30-11:00 for K-2.

Attire

Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their team. This year, your child’s team is Argos, and our team color is Blue. Your child may wear a plain blue shirt (no logos) with their athletic bottoms or they can create a shirt with our Greek City State name and logo. 

Snack and Class Volunteers

Our class will be in need of a few volunteers to bring snacks, and a cooler and to help our class while we rotate through the field day activities. Please sign-up here to help out! This is such a fun events and we hope you can participate with us! 

Volunteers for the Athletic Field Day Events

 Coach Gethings &Coach Warren need volunteers setting up and running the event. Please visit here to sign-up at to help with the events. 

Lunch
There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day. Please send your child to school with a lunch on this day.

Academics

Poem: I Know The Sounds That The Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky (recitations the week of 1/28) Idiom: Fish Out of Water

Spalding: Due to MLK Day on Monday, this week we will only have 20 words Spelling Test on Friday!

Tuesday: behind, around, burn, camp, bear, bare, clear, clean, spell, poor

Wednesday: finish, hurt, maybe, across, tonight, tenth, sir, these, those, club

Phonograms: ou, ur, ea, ei, oo, sh, si, igh, i, ti

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne.

Grammar: We will review all forms of verbs learned this year including action, being, linking, and helping. We will take a verb assessment at the end of the week.

 Math: Students will explore two-digit numbers as they learn how to identify the place value of tens and ones. On Friday, students will participate in various math activities to celebrate the 100^th day of school!

Literature:  We will read our final fairy tale; The Princess and Pea! On Wednesday, we will review all 9 fairy tales we have read and on Friday we will read a special story about the 100^thday of school. On the 28^th we will begin reading A Bargain for Frances.  Please ensure that your child brings their copy to school by this date. Thank you!

History: This week we will continue to learn about the Aztec people. We will learn more about where they lived, who their leaders were and what religion they followed.

Science: This week we will continue learning about the human body. We will explore the muscular system and its purpose. We will practice using our muscles and will observe different pictures to understand the importance of how strong muscles allow our bodies to function properly.

Athletic Field Day

Athletic Field Day is Friday, February 1st from 8:30-11:00. Each year classes are assigned a Greek City State for their team. This year, your child’s team is Argos, and our team color is blue. Your child may wear a plain red shirt (no logos) with their uniform bottoms, or modest athletic bottoms.
There will be no school lunch offered on Athletic Field Day. Please send your child to school with a
lunch and a water bottled, with their name labeled clearly on it.
In order to have Athletic Field Day run smoothly, we need your help! Coach Gethings &
Coach Warren need volunteers setting up and running the event. Please sign up at Here to help with the events. We need a few volunteers for our class to help with donating a cooler and snacks. Please sign up here to help out in 1C.

Athletic Field Day Attire:
Please have your child wear a blue color t-shirt that day. Children may
decorate their shirts with their team name and/or symbol Argos.
Your child should wear athletic clothing free of pop culture references. Sports team and
brand logos are acceptable on clothing. Athletic shoes are mandatory (any color). Hats
and sunglasses may be worn. Sunscreen must be applied at home. Please see pg. 52

in the family handbook for more detailed information.

Observers:
Visitor’s stickers will be located outside (near the athletic field) at the
check in station for ALL field day event volunteers. Volunteers who signed up to help the coaches can go right to the field to sign in, if you signed up on the classroom signup genius you can go through the main office to sign in. If you are only want to observe and not volunteer, you are most welcome to pull up a chair on the side lines and watch! Please do not hesitate to contact the school with any questions you have about field day.

Go Argos!!!

Thank you!

Dear 1C families,

Thank you for your generous contribution to the teacher holiday gifts. Mrs. Miller and I truly appreciate your generosity. I also wanted to say thank you for the individual gifts, they were so thoughtful. I enjoyed using the gifts over the break with my fiance.

With gratitude,

Sarah Kaye

Week 20

Happy New Year 1C Families! 

I hope that you and your family had a wonderful time over the break. I enjoyed visiting family in Colorado!

This quarter we have made a few changes to our homework routine so please take a moment to review the changes in the “announcements” portion of this post.

Finally, I wish you all a happy new year! I am so excited to get back into the swing of things and see what this new year has in store.

In pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,

Sarah Kaye 



Calendar

January 7th: School Resumes

Homework

*Please read the about the homework changes under the announcements portion.

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute)

Monday: mail, male, female, eye, I, glass, party, upon and math wkbk pg. 7-8

Tuesday: two, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, between, they, would, could, should and math wkbk. pg. 9-10

Wednesday: any, many, city, only, where, week, weak, first, sent, cent and math wkbk. pg. 13-14

Thursday: write all words 1 time and Test B

Friday: read for 15 minutes (book of your choice) 

Announcements

Homework Change

Thank you for taking the time to complete the latest homework survey.  We looked carefully at the numeric data and anonymous comments and had good conversation as a team.  Every child is unique and homework experiences vary widely, but there are occasional patterns in these surveys that help us to adjust our homework assignments.  With this in mind, we are going to make a few adjustments in the third quarter that will hopefully make the homework experience more joyful without sacrificing good learning.  We will continue to discuss as a team and will send another survey near the end of third quarter.  Beginning January 7^th, parents and students can look forward to the following changes:

 1.  Spalding words will only need to be written once using the scholar’s best handwriting. As always it is crucial that parents read the words aloud to their child. Students will also write one sentence using one or more Spalding words.

       2.  Math homework will take place Monday- Thursdays. There will not be any math homework on Fridays.

Academics

Poem: I Know The Sounds That The Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky  Idiom: Fish Out of Water

Spalding: This week we have 28 words Spelling Test on Friday!

Monday: mail, male, female, eye, I, glass, party, upon

Tuesday: two, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, between, they, would, could, should

Wednesday: any, many, city, only, where, week, weak, first, sent, cent

phonograms: ai, ey, ar, w, t, ou, sh, wh, ea, ir

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from Master of all Masters and Aesop's Fables.

Grammar: Students will observe Diego Rivera's painting of La Piñata. We will identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives that exist within this painting. We will write a full sentence about this painting based on observations made throughout the week.

Math: This week is all about comparing and ordering numbers. We will compare by using the phrases “__ more than” “__less than” and we will also compare by subtracting.

Literature:  We will be reading a variety of fairy tales this week including Sleeping Beauty, Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hansel Gretel.  As we read each fairy tale, we will also work to identify various story elements.  We will also learn how to use the decoding skill “stretchy snake” to help us become fluent readers!  

History: This week in history we will be studying the ancient culture of the Maya.  We will learn about the cities they built in the rain forest, their ancient writings and other aspects of their everyday culture.

Science: This week we will begin a new unit on the human body! We will start by learning about the skeletal system. The class will be able to explain the different functions of the skeletal system. We will also put together and label our own skeletal system using q tips!