First Grade Newsletter Volume 10
Reading
Fifth Grade Reading Partners
District 4j High Frequency Words Pre-Primer 1 Pink List
Water Color Self Portraits Class Photos
Parent Teacher Conferences Nov 1-2
West Eugene Wetlands
Important Dates
1ST GRADE NEWSLETTER
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In English class, all students are able to successfully read sentences and stories with cvc, consonant, -
vowel - consonant pattern words. The goal now is to increase reading fluency and reading rate. This
comes only with a lot of practice. Keep up the practice of having student share with you what they
completed in class each day attached to the blue slips. We do tally
and keep track of the signed blue and yellow
slips returned to school for the treasure chest
drawings. When student “complain” they
aren’t chosen, we
remind them to
turn in those signed
blue slips to
increase their
chances of being
pulled.
5TH GRADE
READING
PARTNERS
Y U J I N G A K U E N J A PA N E S E I M M E R S I O N E L E M E N TA RY S C H O O L VO L . 1 0
Fifth trade reading
partners come read
with our first
graders every
Thursday afternoon.
The half hour went by very
quickly & was fun!! z
WATER COLOR
SELF
PORTRAITS
Class Meetings
On Fridays, first graders have
class meetings in the
afternoons to talk about recess,
lining up, and how to be kind
and respectful to each other.
We are learning to make I
statements to be able to talk to
others directly when a conflict
occurs. We study the Second
Steps Curriculum and are
learning to develop empathy
for the feelings of others.
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District 4j High
Frequency Words
So, how is it going with the Pre-
Primer 1 high frequency words
this week? Don’t cut them out.
Have students practice them
going left to right across the
page. Challenge your child to
improve their high frequency
words reading time. Celebrate
when then can read all the
words in 30 seconds or less.
District
testers come
1/8/08 to test
first graders
on three lists.
Parent Teacher Conferences Nov. 1 & 2
Sayaka Sensei and
Nancy Sensei are
looking forward to the
parent teacher
conferences in a few
weeks. We have fifteen
minutes per family, or
seven and a half
minutes per teacher so
we need to be efficient
with our time. It will
help out a lot to make
sure you are ten minutes
early and if you turn in
the purple preconference
sheet so we
can be prepared to
address you questions
and concerns. Look for
another opportunity to
lets us know your goals
for the conference on
the purple preconference
sheet in this
Thursday’s envelope.
Thank you.
IMPORTANT
DATES
Car Seats & Booster
Seats needed if you
are less than 4 ‘ 9”
OCT 24
Thistledown
Farms Field
Trip
OCT 25
West Eugene
Wetlands
Speaker
NOV 5
Wetlands
Donguri Trip
w/ lunches
NOV 9
Wetlands
Kabocha Trip
w/ lunches
West Eugene
Wetlands
Donguri 13, 11/5,
Kabocha 12, 11/9
Drivers
Monday 11/5 are: R.
Seno, A McCool, N
Lopez, K Lutje,
H.Hurley, A. Chatwood
Friday, 11/9 are: Y Wu,
J Carpenter, G Nielsen,
M Bates, M Perez, A
Johnson, P Quan
Lunches Ordered
Monday, 11/5: Calvin,
Ivan, Noelia, Kashi, Keagan
L.
Friday, 11/9: John, Keagan
J., Sarah.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
