Mrs. Schoner's Class Web Page
Please send in a self-addressed stamped large brown envelope ( with $2.00 postage) so that I can mail your child's report card to you. If you do not wish to do this, you may drop by Thrasher on Wednesday between 8:00-9:30am to pick up your child's report card on the front porch. If you have not returned your child's Spring photo package or paid for the photos you kept, then you will not be able to get your child's report card until this matter is reconciled. This also applies to any outstanding SACC, library, or lunchroom fees.
PLAY DAY!!!!
We will spend our last day of 1st grade at Althaus Park on Monday, May 24th. Please send 2 plastic bottles of water and another drink (NOT Coke) alongwith your child's regular morning snack to school that day. A pizza lunch and ice cream are being provided with the $5.00 field trip fee you are sending to school. Your child needs to wear socks and tennis shoes and your child may bring a safe outside toy, equipment to use outside at the park. We will hopefully have access to the tennis courts area.
Please send a snack each day to school with your child... candy is not acceptable.
Also, remember that tennis shoes and socks need to be worn to school for safety on the playground.
Your child may wish to bring a light jacket or sweater to leave here at school to wear inside when the AC is on. The children wear a lot less clothing than I do and they get cold when I have the AC on.
Happy Birthday!! Katie May 15th
First Grade and Multi-Age Play Day Picnic on Monday, May 24th... this is the last day of school and we will be celebrating that day at Althaus Park. More details on permission slip coming home soon!
PLEASE check your child's agenda mate every night... even on Wednesdays when there is no homework. It seems that notes and completed papers are always being sent home, even on Wednesdays.
On the nights your child's reader comes home, please listen to him/her read aloud to you. It is crucial for your child to have the extra practice. If you read something other than the reader for that night, it is fine, just please jot a note in the agenda mate; otherwise I may think that your child has not done his/her homework that night.
Please make sure that your child is reading at least 15 minutes a day aloud to you and that you are asking your child comprehension questions about the story. Our goal is that every 1st grader will be a secure and capable reader.Be sure to check out this neat website: mrsperkins.com/phrases.html
Please remember to send your child's library books to school on THURSDAYS!!
WRITER'S WORKSHOP:
We are continuing our unit on Poetry. The children are learning the specifics of what a poem is, what it looks like, what is sounds like, etc... you will hopefully see an original poem written by your child in the near future!!
SPELLING:
The weekly sentence, that is now a part of our weekly spelling test, will be composed of words that we had in earlier spelling lessons or that we write daily.
Spelling tests will now be graded more strictly:
-letters must be formed correctly
-no capital letters will be accepted unless the word is supposed to be capitalized
-the first word in the sentence has to be capitalized
-the punctuation mark must be at the end of the sentence or question
I give the children lots of hints about this as I give the test.
MATH:
How can you help your child?
Help your child develop fluency with the addition facts: +0 facts, +1 facts, +2 facts, through +10 facts.
At school we use a number grid or number line to count up for addition or count back for subtraction. The number grid is used as a tool even for larger number subtraction and addition.
Continue sorting and counting quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. Measure things in your home using inches and feet. Practice simple addition facts. Practice telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour.
Literacy/Science/Social Studies Unit:
We are reading books and doing activities that will teach us about the 5 senses. This is a really fun unit!!
If your child is sick and absent from school, you need to send a doctor's note to school when your child returns in order for the absence to be excused. Some doctor's offices will fax a doctor's excuse note to our office. The doctor's office up here will not, so you will have to obtain the excuse note while you are at the doctor's office or go by there. This is not a new policy, it is just being enforced due to truancy issues in our Hamilton County school system. Any questions... see the Thrasher parent handbook which is online.
Wish List for our classroom:
#2 pencils (yellow) i.e. Ticonderoga, Papermate
Dell printer ink BLACK (#15)
a real pencil sharpener... one that doesn't eat the pencils (hee hee)