1. Mrs. Kurth’s Classroom News January 11th - 15th, 2016

2. Dates to save: January 12th: PIE meeting at 7pm
January 25th: No School – Teacher workshops (in the a.m.) Conferences (12 – 8)
January 28th: Conferences (4-8)

3. Reading Practice
This past Friday, we have started our first practice reading test with directions.
Most every week, there will be a practice test.
This “test” allows your child to practice their comprehension of the stories we are doing in class.
This is optional.

4. Conferences are coming up soon!
Schedules are listed on our class website.
Please return your conference slips as soon as possible.

5. Spelling tests
Please remember that we will be scoring capitalization and punctuation this trimester.
Much of this score comes from the spelling test.
The scores will be collected through the trimester and given a score overall.
Please make note of this score on their test.

6. Family Journals
Thanks so much for completing the family journals each week!
This past Friday, I noticed that many students were forgetting to put capital letters and punctuation.
You could make a game of it – have the students see if they could spy the places where the capital letters/punctuation should go.

7. I Love to Read Month February is I Love to Read month.
We will be celebrating the fun of reading with many great activities throughout the month:
February 1st - Pajama Day – Kick off, all school DEAR time
February 5th – Superhero Day
February 12th – Wacky Color Day
February 19th – Book Character Day
February 26th – Hippie Day
February 29th– Pajama Day to end
“I Love to Read” Month

8. Outside Recess
Students will not be able to play in the snow if they do not have snow pants.
Please send gloves/mittens and hats!
Label everything!

9. We will celebrate your child’s birthday here at school
If you decide to send store bought treats or goodies please send 24 of them.
If it's a weekend day we will celebrate the Friday before or Monday after.
We will also celebrate ½ birthdays. If this doesn’t work for you we can celebrate it in May.
Please let me know which day you will choose if it falls on the weekend or holiday break.
January Birthdays
½ Birthdays:
7th – Crosby
9th – Brita
17th – Alexis
18th - Carson
24th - Jack

10. Upcoming Academics: This will change each week!

11. Reading: Lesson 12 Main Story: and The Rain Forest
Word Wall Words: been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very
Comprehension Strategy: Sequence of events; kinds of questions
Phonics: digraph -ch and –tch; phonogram -atch
Grammar: possessives; Proper Nouns
Writing: sequence of events

12. Spelling Words: chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick,. know,
Spelling Words: chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick,* know, *very, match, pitch
*Practice writing sentences with word wall words, words with -ch sounds, and word endings so your child will be prepared to write a sentence on the final test.

13. Anticipated Homework:
Math Concepts for this week in class: reading the temperature, measuring with nonstandard units, standard units of measurement (feet and inches)
Anticipated Homework:
Monday:  4.9
Tuesday:  4.10
Wednesday: No Homework
Thursday: 4.11
Friday: 4.12

14. More Math…. Here is the link if you need to reprint homework pages:
Things you can practice at home if you are looking for additional ideas:
-Telling time to the nearest hour
-Counting combinations of pennies and nickels and dimes

15. Word of the Week
Extra:
Each week, your child can receive a sticker for their sticker book by writing down our special word/phrase of the week along with a parent signature.
This word also helps me to know that you have seen the newsletter!
They love stickers!
Word of the week: Cold!

16. Family Journals Family Journals are due each Monday.
Please use the next empty page to complete your response to your child.
I also encourage you to use the letter format to allow your child to see and experience that format.

17. General Homework Expectations
Mondays: Spelling words and word wall words will come home (practice these words to be ready for the spelling test on Friday
Wednesdays: Wednesday work: students complete the comprehension page as well as practice reading the words on the opposite side. When you feel your child is confident in knowing the words and has completed the comprehension page, please return it to the classroom. It is due by the following Tuesday at the latest.
Monday through Friday: Math homework will be sent home each day, except Wednesdays. I expect each page to come back the following day.

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19. Volunteering
The media center is also looking for volunteers to help shelve books.
In the past, some parents have volunteered in the library right before coming to our room to volunteer.
Please contact them beforehand to see if they have an available opening.
Thank you for ALL your help!
We couldn’t do it without you!!!

20. Digital Days Day of the Week Digital Day Specialist
Important Reminders
Monday 1
Phy. Ed.
Wear Tennis Shoes
Tuesday 2
Music
Wednesday 3
Media & Computer
Send library books
Thursday 4
Computer & Phy. Ed.
Friday 5

21. Contact Information
Angie Kurth 1st GradeTeacher – rm ext.4102, Classroom Website/Blog: