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I hope you had a fantastic weekend and are ready for this week! Just a few reminders about Halloween.

• Students CANNOT wear a costume to school. They can wear Halloween-themed clothes or a Halloween t-shirt. 
• Please do not send in any Halloween treats or goodie bags for the children. They will be getting treats in school :)
• Please be sure to pack a bigger snack on Friday since we will be having lunch a little later. 
• We are going to be doing STEM challenges in school this week. If anyone would like to donate candy corn and toothpicks to the class for this, it would be appreciated! 
• Each student will need a children's sized, empty shoebox with a lid for Friday, 10/29.

Know It Show It pages 57-58
Grammar pages 7-8

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Please be sure to label your child's Gym sweatshirt with thier name. I know that some of you have  uniforms from the uniform exchange and it is helpful to have your child's name on the inside tag.
Please review the uniform policy that I posted a few weeks ago. Just scroll down a bit so you can see it :)
Thank you for everything! 
Enjoy your week!

Hi everyone!

I hope you are having a great week and enjoying the fall weather! Our first graders are working so hard in all that they are doing, it is so much fun to watch them learn and discover so many new things this year! One of the things that we stress is the importance of being responsible. Try it at home by giving your child certain tasks to complete. This will help them to become the independent learners that we want them to be.

Please note that this Friday school is closed for a teacher in-service. Enjoy the long weekend and we will see you back on Monday. 

Here is our plan for the week:

In Language Arts, our essential question is how does everyone in my family and community make them special. This is a great driving question because we are always talking about how our classmates make up an SFCS family. Be sure to use the question at home when you are reviewing concepts for this week.  

Our focus skill is learning how to correctly ask and answer questions while learning about the setting of the stories we read. What would happen if we change the setting? What if we changed the characters?

In Phonics, we are making our way through the short vowels. You should continue to practice short a, i, and o and have children practice rhyming to increase their accuracy when reading. This week we will begin learning the short u sound.

In Grammar, we will continue to learn about adjectives as we learn to write complete sentences. Please practice this at home. Sentences need to have a naming part (subject) and an action part (predicate). We will interchange the words so please use them at home as well. We will finally put these ideas together to write a descriptive writing piece.

Our Spelling words are: up, bug, mud, nut, hug, tub, log, hop, not, hot, puppy, bathtub, Test is on 10/27

Our HF words: about, out, eat, put, how, takes, make, who

Our power words are: against, churn, close, docked, drive, harbor, heal, pointing, spoon, stock, unload.

Religion: This week we will continue to learn that Jesus grew up in the Holy Family the same way that our first graders are growing up in a family. We will see that our families and the Holy Family did many of the same things, especially praying. Jesus also listened to Mary and Joseph just as they listen to you at home :)

Math: We will begin our chapter on subtraction. We will see that this concept is the taking away from the whole and seeing what is left. We will use the Math words take away, have left and whole -part=part. One strategy that we will use is our number line and count down to reach the difference, the answer to a subtraction problem. Also, encourage your child to put the larger number in their head and count back. This is a skill that does take time to master. 

Science: This week we will continue to learn about habitats. We will compare and contrast a forest, a wetland, an ocean and a desert. We will then move into learning about life cycles! We will learn that living things can grow and change in different ways.

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Just a few reminders about our uniform policy :)Summer uniform -

Optional uniform from start of school to Oct. 31 ^st and April 1 ^st to end of school
K – 5 boys:
Summer 

• Navy uniform walking shorts (Only K & 1st grades may wear pull-on shorts)
• White polo shirt with school insignia
• Belt (black, brown or navy)
• White crew socks with shorts
• Sneakers (Boys who wear gray pants must wear shoes and socks)

• Navy uniform walking short or skorts (K & 1^st grades may wear pull on shorts)

• White polo shirt with school insignia
• Belt (black, brown or navy)
• White crew socks with shorts
• Sneakers

Boys Winter uniform
K – 5 Boys

• Gray uniform pants
• White polo shirt, short or long sleeved
• Gray sweater/vest
• Belt (black, brown or gray)
• Socks (white, gray or black)
• Black or brown tie shoes with rubber soles and heels
• Flynn and O’Hara will not sell turtlenecks and dress shirt/tie for boys, but students may continue to wear them if they fit.

• Plaid jumper or gray pants
• White Peter Pan collar blouse or white turtleneck with school insignia
• Red uniform sweater with school insignia
• Red knee socks /leotards with jumper; red or white socks with pants
• Black or brown tie shoe or with a sturdy strap across the ankle (Mary Janes)