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First News March 18

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First News

READING
We’ve continued to E-X-P-A-N-D our
vocabulary this week with our CAFÉ strategy:
READ, READ, READ! We talked about how
the more we read, the more words we know
and the more we expand our vocabulary! As
you’re reading with your child, talk about
new, unfamiliar words! Who knows??? You may
even expand your vocabulary too!!!

Social Studies/Writing
Mrs. Brinkman – jody.brinkman@thompson.k12.co.us What a blast we had this week filming
679-9531 our Book Reviews about our favorite books!
The kids did an AWESOME job, and we can’t
Mr. Frawley – david.frawley@thompsonschools.org
wait for you to hear about all of our favorite
679-9500 books! WAY TO GO FIRST GRADERS!!!
We also completed compliment
Mrs. Saya – janelle.saya@thompson.k12.co.us
shamrocks this week by drawing a class
679-9530 member’s name from a bucket and writing why
“I’m lucky to have a friend like…”. After we
Specials Schedule
completed our shamrocks, we revealed whose
Monday.................PE/Library name we drew by reading our compliment
shamrocks aloud to the class.
Tuesday.................Music/PE We sent home a writing contest

Wednesday...........Computer sponsored by the Reporter-Herald this week


as our Wednesday homework. Your child was
Thursday...............Music/ART asked to write about what they would wish
for if they could have ONE WISH come true.
Friday...................Library/Computer
We will be entering the children’s writing into
(Library books need to be returned on the contest and can’t wait to find out if we
Friday) win!
R.A.P BAGS Read And
STAR OF THE WEEK Practice
Be sure you child is returning the RAP
1Saya….Coletin Renn
Bag daily. We use them everyday for
our Guided Reading. RAP Bags will
1Brinkman/Frawley..Charlee Boman
come home on TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY!
MATH
We’ve continued working on our
March Homework
“Math Fact Fluency” this week by
Keep up the great work on your March
practicing our subtraction facts.
homework! Don’t forget that
Our goal is to improve our speed
homework is due APRIL 5th!!!!!!
and accuracy by practicing our
Thanks again for your support at home
addition and subtraction math with monthly homework!
facts. Great work practicing
those math facts at home!
Keep it up!!!

We’ve also been working on story


problems this week. Our focus has
been on solving story problems in
which the total and one part are
known. We used drawings and
number sentences to represent
our thinking.
UPCOMING EVENTS!!!!!

March 18th
Report cards home!
Health and Wellness
March 28th – April 1st
How are your Schools on the Move
SPRING BREAK!
Calendars looking??? Remember,

April 4th calendars are due April 6th! We


WELCOME BACK want to have 100% participation in
MRS. BRINKMAN! 1st grade!
LET’S GO PANDAS!!
April 6 th

Schools On The Move


Calendars Due Junior Achievement
We started a fun program this week
called Junior Achievement. We’ve had
a guest speaker, Miss Gail, come and
Reading
talk to us about our families, our
Celebration! community and needs vs wants. We
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! will continue our Junior Achievement
Don’t forget to have your child bring a studies next week.
book that he/she can read fluently
each week on his/her designated day.
Thanks for your help!

Flat Stanley
We’ve traveled over 6,800 miles East Miss Shana from our Health Office
this week from Loveland to Egypt! We came and talked to us about germs
landed on the continent of Africa with and the importance of washing our
Flat Stanley this week as we began hands and covering our coughs with
reading Flat Stanley’s Worldwide our elbows! Miss Shana used a black
Adventures: The Great Egyptian light to show us how germs spread
Grave Robbery! We learned some from our hands to EVERYTHING we
pretty incredible facts about Egypt touch!
and the Great Pyramids of Giza. We Did you know you should sing the ABC
can’t wait to find out how Flat Stanley song when you wash your hands to
saves the day in Egypt! make sure you scrub long enough to
get rid of ALL the germs on our
Report Cards hands?

Report cards came home today in VIP


folders! Everyone has worked so hard Mr. Frawley
this past quarter! Celebrate the It’s hard to believe that next week is
success and growth your child has Mr. Frawley’s last week with us!
shown during the third quarter! They We’ve loved having him as part of our
DESERVE IT!! There’s only one more Ponderosa Panda family! Be sure to
quarter left of first grade before we stop in this next week to wish him well
move on to second grade! Time and thank him for all he’s done for our
certainly does fly when you are first graders!!!!
HAVING FUN!!!!

Germs!!!

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