Mrs. Houston's 1st Grade Class

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Dear Parents,

Reminders:
We are now into our second nine weeks. The work will has begun to get more 
challenging so please make sure to look over your child's work and send me a 
note or e-mail if you notice them struggling with anything. Both Ms. Castro 
and I will be working hard to help those who may not get the concepts we are 
learning quickly but sometimes we may miss someone. We appreciate you helping 
us with this. Below are listed some of the concepts we will be learning this 
next nine weeks.

Spelling Test
The spelling words come from our Phonics lessons allowing the students to be 
able to apply the phonics rules to help them. Please make sure your child is 
practicing their words at home. The bonus word will help students who know 
how to spell but at times reverse a letter. The total points they can receive 
is 100 so if a child gets all the words correct and the bonus there are no 
extra points and no points taken away if he/she miss it.

Reading
This nine weeks we will continue to work on characters, setting, main idea, 
problem in a story and the solution. We will be adding how to find the main 
idea of a story and the supporting details.Please make sure your child is 
reading everynight.

Reading of nonficiton books has proven to be one of the best ways to increase 
student vocabulary and comprehension. As we progress into the year the 
students will be doing projects based on nonfiction books of their choosing. 
I will be encouraging the students to be part of the Britt David Nonficiton 
Club. Ms. Castro and I will be keeping track of their nonfiction books for 
them.

Language
We will be doing more writing this nine weeks. We will continue to make sure 
we have used capitals, correct punctuation marks and subject-verb agreement. 
Our focus will be reveiwing nouns and adding verbs and adjectives to our 
writing.

Math Facts
To help increase our studentss recall of basic math facts we will have a 
different math fact test each week. We have finished the 0-9 addition facts 
and will be reviewing these periodicly. We have started the subtraction facts 
minus 0 and we will continue until we get to minus 9 facts. Flash cards are 
an excellent way to prepare for this timed test.

Social Studies and Science
We alternate our study of Science and Social Studies every 3 weeks. For the 
second nine weeks in Social Studies we will be discussing and learning about 
some of America's Hero's : like Harriet Tubman, George Washington, Theodore 
Roosevelt, George Washington Carver and Benjamin Franklin.

AR
Parents please make sure your child brings their AR Book everyday. I do allow 
them time in class to read this book and to make sure they are logging in 
correctly they need the correct title of the book.

Reading for Millionaire
If your child is not a millionaire yet, please keep them reading. It is very 
important that you log these books as well. Your child should have read and 
logged at least 150 books by the end of the second nine weeks.

Each time your child reads a book they may log it on their reading log. It 
does not necessarily have to be a different book. For example if they have 
read the same book 5 times they can log it on their reading log five times. 
In order to be a millionaire they have to read 250 books so please make sure 
that you log the books they are reading at home.

Homework
Homework is given Monday through Thursday. Generally there will be a math 
sheet and phonics sheet. For both, we will have had done several practice 
examples so that children should be well prepared to complete their homework 
assignments. On the nights we have a math or phonics assessment there will be 
no homework in that subject.

Mrs. Houston

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