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To the parents of: ______________________June 9th-13th

Well, I can hardly believe our year is coming to a close.  As I have been reflecting on our school year, I feel so blessed to have had such amazing students and dedicated parents.  I must say this was one of the sweetest, most cooperative and fun first grade classes I’ve ever taught.  I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for such a successful year!  All of the students have grown so much, both academically and socially!

I also want to thank each one of you from the bottom of my heart for all of the time and dedication you have given to our classroom this year.  You have helped with Guided Reading, art, field-trips, making cookies, sending in soup kitchen items, flowers, helping with homework and reports, the list goes on!  Our year could not have been without all of you!!!!

Reminders:
*Our “Flip-flop” into summer day has been rescheduled into September.

Tuesday: We will celebrate our SUMMER BIRTHDAYS with a pizza luncheon.  Summer birthday students will be providing juice, and cupcakes.  Our pizza lunch will take place at 12:00.

Wednesday:   TONIGHT IS OUR FINAL SOUP KITCHEN HOMEWORK NIGHT!

Thursday:  FREE DRESS TODAY!!!     NOON DISMISSAL : No lunch served today.  If your child goes to BASE, please remember to send a lunch.  Students may wear free dress today.

Friday:  This is our last day.  Our end of the year mass begins at 8:45 parents are welcome.  We will dismiss from our room right after mass.   Please wear your Sunday best today for our end of the year mass (no jeans, collared shirts please).

No spelling words this week!

Students will bring their math portfolios number corner books home Monday evening, and then  language portfolios home on Tuesday evening.  This is a time to reflect and celebrate over the growth made this year.

MATH BY MAIL: If you would like your child to receive 6 letters and a few math sheets this summer, please send in 6 legal sized self addressed, stamped envelopes by Friday.

Library books must be turned in by the last day of school, or I have to withhold report cards.

Have a fabulous and safe summer!  I’ll look for you over the summer out and about West Seattle!

Thanks again for a fabulous year!

For the Parents of: _______________ June 2nd-6th

*I want to thank Meg Peterson and all of our parents, in advance, who helped make our Reading Surprise very special!  We really couldn’t have pulled it off without you!  Also, thank you for sending in the beautiful flowers and delicious cookies!  Everyone helped to make this a very special day for our first graders.

I can’t believe it!  We only have 10 days left of our school year!!! This 1A class has been so special!

*All library books are due.

Wednesday:   Soup Kitchen Homework tonight ************Wednesday is also “Spring into Summer/Flip-Flop Day.”  We have another “prinicpal for the day.”  Students may wear flip-flops and summer attire (no bathing suits please).  We will have Fitness and Health so if students choose to wear sandals/flip-flops they must bring safe shoes (don’t forget socks).

Thursday:  NO HOMEWORK DUE TO 8TH GRADE AND KINDERGARTEN GRADUATIONS.  Be sure to study those spelling words and sentence though…

Friday:  Kindergarten graduation

We need all first grade parents to help make the kindergarten graduation a memorable one, just as last year’s first grade parents did for us.  Please remember to send in your food item, Friday morning.

Monday, June 9th  We go to the Woodland Park Zoo today!  Students need to bring a sack lunch.  Please don’t send anything (lunch box, containers, etc.) that can’t be thrown away.

Students may wear free dress, but please bring/wear your Holy Rosary sweatshirts.  It makes it easier to spot our students in a crowd.

Chaperones please arrive at approx. 9:20. We will load our carpools and plan on leaving by 9:30.  We plan on returning to school before dismissal.

Tuesday, June 10th  We will celebrate our Summer Birthdays on Tuesday, June 10th, during lunch with a pizza lunch.  We have planned 2 pieces per child… If your child has a summer birthday he/she has signed up to bring a treat for the class that day and that is also attached.

Curriculum News:
Spelling words are: check, always, sure, teacher, himself, use, thought, and our bonus word is second grade.

Our final spelling sentence is: We always need to check our work.

I’ve reallly been enjoying hearing the students present their zoo reports!  Thanks for all of your help on this project.  They will truly be experts on their animals when we visit them next Monday.
Always, Sharon Nark

To The Parents Of:_____________ May 27th-May 30th

ZOO REPORTS will be presented this week!  I’m really looking forward to hearing all of the amazing animal facts!

Tuesday:  Students meet in Faith Families to create a special memory book for each of our 8th grade family members who will be graduating in just a few weeks.

Tuesday:  Book Fair begins/Buy one get one free!

Wednesday:  Our drama elective class will perform The Shoe Maker and The Elves for grades K-4 today at 10:15.  We should be in for quite a treat!

Thursday:  6th-grade Wax Museum.  Our first graders will get a chance to learn from our 6th graders presenting their Greek Mythological Heroes.

Friday:  Our principal of the day voted to have “Sports Day” today.  Students may wear a favorite team jersey, uniform, or team colors.

Reading Surprise:  Next Monday, June 2nd -It takes place from 9:15 -10:15 in the school hall.  Because of the nature of this event, we ask that only parents attend (no siblings please).  Student’s homework is to bring in freshly cut flowers Monday morning.

Curriculum News:
Spelling: This weeks words are:  ready, eight, color, fly, living, live, myself, and our bonus word is reptile.

Our spelling sentence is:
I saw eight tiny reptiles ready to eat.

Reading:  Our sight words are: before, cold, full, of, and would.  Vocabulary words are: behind, sharing, admit, blindfolds, brought, change, power, stared, surprise, and wrote.

Math:  We continue on with our farming.  Students have to plan which animals to purchase, how much land and fencing each animal requires, and then find the total amount of each purchase.  They are also learning about several types of farm animals and what they offer to the farmer.  Lastly the students will be showing the number of days in school with coins,  telling time to the quarter and ½ hour, matching time labels to clock faces, ordering the months of the year, exploring growing patterns, exploring multiplication and division, counting by 4’s, subtracting 2-digit numbers, subtracting from 50, and place value counting.  Yes, we are busy!!!

Religion:  Our focus continues to be on the Sacrament of Baptism.

Have a wonderful week!
Sharon Nark

May 19th-23rd

Please bring your zoo report on Tuesday, May 27th
to share with the class during the week.  Please keep them at home until then to practice reading fluently!

What a glorious weekend!  I hope you were able to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather!

We have busy weeks ahead, be sure to look closely at each F.C.E. as well as our Monday letter.

If you haven’t already filled out the hot lunch form, remember we go to the Zoo on Monday, June the 9th, and will celebrate summer birthdays with a pizza lunch on Tuesday the 10th of June.  More information will be coming home for birthday students to bring in a treat for the celebration.

Tuesday:  We celebrate the Living Rosary in church today at 2:00 as well as watch the 8th graders perform a beautiful liturgical dance honoring Mary.  Students are encouraged to bring a rosary and need to be in perfect uniform (no free-dress passes).  Parents are welcome to attend.

Friday:  Field Day at Hiawatha and Noon Dismissal.  1A students need to wear red, white, and or blue and safe shoes.  Please dress for the weather.  Enjoy the long 3 day weekend!

Curriculum News:
Spelling Words: child, also, great, who, few, change, changing, and our bonus word is oviparous.

The spelling sentence is:  Soon it was time for bed.

Reading:  We begin our final anthology today titled, Surprise Me!   Our sight words this week are much, shall, these, wish and work.  Vocabulary words are:  birds, flowers, would, candles, loudly, of course, frightened, music, poems, ground, noise, and quite.

Math:  Our farming unit is well underway with the purchase of our first farm animals last week.

Have a great week!  Sharon Nark

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To the Parents of: _____________________________  May 12th-16th

Reminders:
We go to the zoo on Monday, June 9th.  Remember not to order hot lunch for that day as we will take our lunches to the zoo.  Permission slips and chaperone sign-ups will come home soon.

*This is our final book-order of the year.  They are due on Friday.

Tuesday:  The 4th graders will be hosting a bake sale on Tuesday during lunch.   Students are invited to bring a little change to buy a special treat!  Proceeds go to Mercy Corp. Way to go 4th graders!!!!

Zoo Reports:  Our zoo reports go home today.  Each student has been assigned a specific animal from the Woodland Park Zoo.  They have approximately 2 weeks to complete the attached report form.  I have explained the grading of these reports and have attached a sheet explaining the expectations.  This is one of  the first grades “Favorite” projects.  I hope this will be an enjoyable experience for your first grader.  If they work a little each day, it shouldn’t be too overwhelming.  Be sure to visit the public library as well as the Woodland Park Zoo web site.  Have Fun!  Because of the importance of the beginning research on this project there will not be any additional homework this week.  Homework will resume next week.

Curriculum News:

Spelling words are: all, almost, income, unable, might, brought, of, and our bonus word is mammal.

Spelling sentence is:  Mother read to them from a book.

Math:  Our farming unit has begun:  My Little Farm is the second of two integrated themes for first grade.  In this unit, each child has the opportunity to create a paper model of a small family farm, using “farm bucks” to purchase cutouts of farm buildings, animals, and machinery, along with land squares for pastures and building areas.  The model-making phase of the unit takes 2-3 weeks and includes numerous opportunities for reading, writing, and research.  The mathematics they use to carry out this project involves place value and money, area and perimeter, mapping, and computation.

Reading:  Sight words are because, better, give, people, and put.  Vocabulary words are safely, accident, believe, burns, hero, except, garage, hospital, minds, reporters, and special.

(Due to the time spent completing our testing we were not able to spend the needed time in our anthologies.)

Have an excellent week!
Sharon Nark