Ria Nicholas Room

School Day 8:00 – 3:15 If your child will be absent, call absent line with symptoms. Parent Note: Unless you send a note, the absence will be unexcused after 2 days. Lunch: 11:20-11:50 Conference Period: 2:10-3:00 3:00 p.m. is the latest you may pick your child up “early”. (11:00 a.m. on Early Release Days.) 8:00 – 3:15 If your child will be absent, call absent line with symptoms. Parent Note: Unless you send a note, the absence will be unexcused after 2 days. Lunch: 11:20-11:50 Conference Period: 2:10-3:00 3:00 p.m. is the latest you may pick your child up “early”. (11:00 a.m. on Early Release Days.)

No buses this year! There will be no bus service this year. However, there will be 2 car rider lines. If you child is a car rider, please pick up one car rider sign accordingly: If you live east of W. Lake Houston (the same side as the school), you will pick up your children in front of the school in the circle drive. If you live west of W. Lake Houston (across W. Lake Houston from the school), you will pick up your children by the cafeteria where the buses use to go.

Phone Numbers Please keep us updated on all phone numbers. We need them in case of emergency!!!!

Specials Schedule My specials schedule will change throughout the year; however: Monday and Wednesday will always be our P.E. days. (Wear sneakers!)

Breakfast/Lunch Breakfast: $1.30 Lunch: $2.00 Lunch Hotline: We will be eating lunch on early release days!

SNACKSNACK Healthy – not sugary – No candy – No hot chips or Cheetos Easy to open Not sticky, messy, or spill-prone

WATER Children may bring a water bottle for recess or P.E. The bottle MUST have a sports top. No other drinks are allowed.

For safety reasons, ALL visitors MUST sign in at the office!

TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION Send a note with your child if they are leaving early or have a change in transportation. Write your child’s name on the Transportation Checklist. Label the Name Tags as directed on the Welcome Back page and leave here or return with you child on Monday.

Birthdays No food items. Pencils, stickers, erasers... for all students in class. No invitations.

Homework Homework packets will be given on Mondays, to be completed at your child's own pace. Parents and students, please sign the Homework Sheet, and have your child turn in completed homework on Friday. There will be no homework the first and last week of school or the week before a vacation.

Daily Folder Your child will have a daily folder. It will have a daily conduct sheet. Please initial/sign each night. Please remove completed work from the folder. Please make sure your child brings the folder back to school every day.

Behavior Blue: Great Day Green: Warning Yellow: 2 nd Warning/Loss of recess time Orange: 3 rd Warning/Behavior Ticket Red: Office Referral

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Activity Fee: $25 to school for purchase of classroom consumables Celebration Fee: $10 to PTO to fund classroom celebrations Field trip money will be charged separately. Be sure to head to cafeteria for important PTO information!

Note: Friday August 26 th will be an early release day. Dismissal will start at 11:10 a.m.

Reading: Decoding Fluency Comprehension

Decoding (“Accuracy”) 1)Look at text features: title, illustrations, captions for clues. 2)Get mouth ready for beginning sound. 3)Look at chunks/parts of words. 4)Think about what makes sense. 5)Re-read. 6)Read on; then go back. (What to do when you get stuck on a word):

Decoding Fluency Comprehension Fluency forms a bridge to comprehension. Fluency

Comprehension: Recognizing story elements: characters, setting, problem, solution (fiction) Appreciating & using text features: titles, maps, charts, graphs, captions, etc. (non-fiction) Distinguishing between fiction and non-fiction Making connections to self, other texts, the world Creating mental images Asking relevant questions (I wonder... ) Making inferences – Making predictions – Deriving the meaning of new words from context clues – Recognizing the author’s purpose – Uncovering non-explicit meaning in texts Synthesizing all of the above to understand a moral or lesson

Spelling Word Study Pre-K to mid-1 st Pretend writing Emergent K to early 3 rd Writing beginning/ending sounds Working on digraphs, blends, short vowels Letter Name 1 st to mid-4 th Working on long vowel patterns Within Word Pattern 3 rd to 8 th Working on syllable junctures, accents, inflections, affixes Syllables and Affixes 5 th to 12 th Working on Latin and Greek derivatives Derivational Relations

Word Study Goals Assess Students for Instruction Support at Their Level De-emphasize the Spelling List Reduces rote memorization (and forgetting) Emphasize Learning Patterns and Rules Promotes Independent Writing

“Word Study Test”

Writing Focused Topic Supporting Details Organization Voice, Word Choice, Fluency Spelling/ Grammar/ Usage Penmanship

Grammar Start sentence with capital letter Correct punctuation at end of sentence Complete sentences: subject and predicate Subject/verb agreement

Adding and Subtracting Telling Time Counting Coins Graphing Measuring Fractions

Students Academic success is like a three-legged stool. It requires support from all three participants.

A note about the Directory If you decline adding your child to the directory, we cannot include them in class photos and the yearbook. Please direct any questions about this to the front office.

Box Tops Thank you for remembering to clip Box Tops and send in with your child!