*Please make sure your child has money in their lunch accounts.

*If your child brings lunch to school, please make sure it is not anything that needs to be heated.  We are not allowed to heat any of the children’s food.

*When sending snacks to school for the class, juice is optional.

*We have sent our  homework calendars home.  Please make sure the children are doing the homework each night.  Please make sure you are signing their homework calendar each night.

******Please let me know if you would like a conference to discuss the report cards that went home recently.  You can email me or send a letter in your child's daily folder.********

                                                    Mr. Hough and Mrs. Bennett

 

The year is rapidly coming to a close.  I hope everyone had a great year in First Grade.  The next couple of weeks will be very busy ones.  We will be doing reading, math and writing assessments, conferences, interims and report cards.  Please make all efforts to attend your child’s conference.  It may be hard to reschedule.

 

Important Dates:

Wednesday, April 30^th Interims go home for those children below level

Friday, May 2^nd   Early Release

Tuesday, May 6^th    Election Day.  You can come to Carver to Vote.

Thursday, May 22^nd      RIF.  Children will get two books to keep.

Monday, May 26^th,  Memorial Day-No School

Wednesday, May 28^th   K-2 Field Day

Friday, May 30^th Last Day of School.  It will be a Full Day!!!!

 

I will be doing the reading, writing and math assessments with the children beginning the week of May 5^th.

 

EOG’s will begin the week of May 12^th.  Please be considerate of the 3-5 grade children if you are in the building.

 

In reading, we are working on reading stories from our anthologies and talking about the relevant story elements, such as plot, characters, setting, author’s message, main events and making connections.

 

In math, we are reviewing the skills we learned since the beginning of the year.

 

In writing, we are using descriptive words, correct capitalization and punctuation.  We are working on retelling stories with different graphic organizers. 

 

In science, we are growing sunflowers and monitoring their growth.  We are writing down our observations in our science folder.

 

Thank you for one of the best years I’ve had as a teacher.  The children were wonderful to work with and we had a lot of fun.  I wish them the best in second grade!!!!