Mrs. Minton’s First Grade What’s Happening in Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Minton’s First Grade October 2009 Teacher’s Corner Mark Your Calendars Wow, I cannot believe that we have completed the first nine weeks of school. I am very pleased with the progress our students have made. Keep it up! This would not possible without all your hard work at home. Thank you for all you do!! Please check out our classroom webpage at: http://mrsandrews1stgrade.pbworks.com/FrontPage. You will find lots of classroom information such as weekly spelling words, newsletters, useful websites, and much more. Changes are coming. Please look in your child’s F.R.O.G.S Book for this information on Friday, October 30th. If you have any questions, concerns or you need anything, please call me at 670-2825, extension 118 or by email andrewsk@wilkes.k12.nc.us. Oct. 2~Optional Workday~No School!! Oct. 6~Fall Pictures ~Terrific Kids-5:30 ~PTO-6:30 Oct. 9~Lazy 5 Ranch Field Trip (Remember to pick your child up at 4:30.) Oct. 12~Columbus Day Oct. 13~ Wendy’s Night 5:00-9:00 Oct. 16~Fall Festival 6:00-9:00 Oct. 21~Unasssisted Writing Assessment ~Last Day of 1st Nine Weeks ~Last day to earn “Reading Counts” points for 1st Nine Weeks ~“Book-It” Sheets Due Oct.20-21~Parent/Teacher Conferences Oct. 22-23~Fall Break~No School!! Oct. 26~First day of Second Nine Weeks Oct. 27~ Wendy’s Night 5:00-9:00 Oct. 28~JAWCC Field Trip~”Stellaluna” Oct. 29~Papa John’s Night Oct. 31~Happy Halloween! What are we working on? Happy Birthday to. . . *Math~Plane Shapes, Spatial Visualization, and Patterns. *Reading and Phonics~Discover Intensive Phonics: Constant and Vowel Letter Sounds, Slides, Making CVC real and nonsense words. *Social Studies~Families, Citizenship, Rules, and Community Leaders *Writing~Focus, Small Moments, Stretching out stories, Capitalization, and Punctuation 10-1~Abby Rhodes 10-8~Jaxon Godbey 10-8~Logan Castevens Classroom Wish List Lysol Spray Clorox Wipes Afternoon Snacks to Share “Teacher Tip” Practice counting by 5’s and 10’s to 100 and by 2’s to 40.