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Welcome to M. A. P. the Multi Age Program at
Harbor Heights Elementary
4002 36th St. NW |
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First Grade: Mrs. Mancuso Homework and updates for: |
February 8-12
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Monday February 8 Flounders-Music Komodo Dragons-OLARC
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Tuesday February 9 Flounders-Tech Time Komodo Dragons- PE
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Wednesday February 10 LATE START TODAY! Flounders-OLARC Komodo Dragons-Music
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Thursday February 11 Wear pink, red and white today! READ AND LEAD TURN IN DAY! Homework due today! |
Friday February 12 Team Time-1:00 Wear tennis shoes!
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Your valentines and valentine container are both due today. Tomorrow you will focus on writing the PROCEDURE you used for making your container. |
Math Homework
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Read Time For Kids-So Much Snow and Keeping Warm in the Arctic Be sure to count the time reading and discussing these articles as Read and Lead minutes. *Sight word flash card practice also counts for Read and Lead. |
Spelling Test Today! JUMP ROPE FOR HEART TODAY-1:40 in the Commons.
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Ms. Pitman’s Super Supply store is open every Friday from 12:00-12:30. Only students who have money will be allowed to shop during the lunch recess. Have a wonderful mid-winter break! I’ll see you Monday, February 22nd! |
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1st Grade Update Valentines Day-Our Valentine party will be held Thursday, February 11th at 12:30 when children will open their special valentines. At 2:20 children will get to have a healthy snack- fruit salad topped with yogurt and granola. We keep this party low key in order to let the children enjoy the sweet fun of Valentines Day. Hands on Art- Our 2nd Hands on Art project of the year will be Wednesday, February 24th at 10:00. This project needs lots of parent helpers so please consider joining us for the morning. Please e-mail me if you can help. Concert Opportunity The Tacoma Concert Band will be having a concert Saturday, February 20th at 7:30 at the Pantages Theater. The principal tuba player with the New York Philharmonic will be featured and our own Mrs. Cushner will be playing the oboe. Children are free with paid adult admission. Math: Our class has started a new unit-What Would You Rather Be? This unit is about data-the facts or information we collect about people and thing in our world. Please read the attached letter which explains the goals your child will be working on in this unit. Homework Information: There will not be a homework sheet sent home Thursday, February 11th due to vacation the following week. The next homework sheet will be sent home Thursday, February 25th. Shoes for Haiti: So far we have collected 189 pairs of shoes!!! The last day to bring shoes to school will be Thursday, February 11th. Thanks so much for tying or taping pairs of shoes together. Writers Workshop: We wrote a procedure for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Students learned the importance of writing clear, explicit directions and organizing their steps using “time order” words such as: first, next, then, after that, finally, etc.
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February 1-5
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Monday February 1 Flounders-Music Komodo Dragons-OLARC
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Tuesday February 2 Flounders-Tech Time Komodo Dragons- PE
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Wednesday February 3 LATE START TODAY! Flounders-OLARC Remember your library books! Komodo Dragons-Music |
Thursday February 4 Flounders-PE Komodo Dragons-Technology Spelling tests are today! Homework due today! |
Friday February 5 Wear black and white today! Team Time-1:00 Wear tennis shoes!
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This week you will be working on your valentines and valentine container which you will bring to school Monday, February 8th. You will be exchanging valentines with your own classmates and the MAP kindergarteners for a total of 44 children. Names are on the back of the valentine container information. Please print each child’s first name using your neatest 1st grade penmanship. Parents-please have your child do the printing. Thanks so much!
There will be no math homework this week except to work on Xtra Math. Please keep reading every day and night for Read and Lead. |
Thursdays are Read and Lead turn in days. I send Read and Lead sheets to the office first thing in the morning so don’t forget yours in your backpack! Did you practice your 5 spelling words? Are you ready for your spelling test today? |
Ms. Pitman’s Super Supply store is open every Friday from 12:00-12:30. Only students who have money will be allowed to shop during the lunch recess. If you bring money, please keep it in your backpack until recess. |
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1st Grade Update Literacy: Fluency is a very important component of reading. Having your child reread books is the perfect opportunity to work on fluency (reading smoothly with expression). The first time your child reads a book he/she is working very hard on decoding the words. After the first reading, have your child read it again, this time using more expression and pausing at commas and stopping at periods, exclamation points and questions marks, with correct intonation. Then, for the 3rd reading, your child should “read like a movie star!” After this last reading, have your child retell the story, including all of the important parts in order and naming the characters, not “he” or “she”). You may count all of this reading and discussion time for Read and Lead minutes. Science: Students learned that temperature describes how hot or cold something is and that temperature is measured with a thermometer. The children then constructed a model thermometer which you will find in this Thursday Folder. Have your child demonstrate how a thermometer works! Shoes for Haiti: Thanks so much to those of you who have sent “gently used” shoes to school for the Haitians. Please be sure shoes are taped or tied together before you send them to school. I have included information about this service project on the back of this homework sheet in case you want to collect shoes from your relatives or neighbors. Writers Workshop: PARENTS-Each student wrote an essay about Read and Lead. Be sure to stop by the hall and read these essays because you will find out how much these 1st graders LOVE spending quiet time reading with you. Math: This week students wrote numbers on a counting strip (a favorite 1st grade math project)! Then students counted by 10’s and circled those numbers in red; counted by 5,s, circling those numbers in purple and counted by 2’s, circling those number in a favorite color. Please have your child practice counting by 10’s, 5’s and 2’s.
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Where Do You Start Your Letters?
Where do you start your letters?
At the top!
Where do you start your letters?
At the top!
If you want to start a letter,
Then you better, better, better
Remember to start it at the top!
Is this the top, top, top?
No, it’s the bottom!
Is this the top, top, top?
No, it’s the middle!
Is this the top, top, top?
It’s the top, top, top.
Where do you start your letters?
At the top!
(Sing through 2 times.)
Mrs. Mancuso
Harbor Heights Elementary
1st GRADE SCHOOL SUPPLY LIST 2009-2010
Please label individually the following supplies which will be kept by each student (notebooks and folders: 1st and last name on top right corner):
· 1 backpack (to be brought to and from school each day, name clearly visible) No wheels, please!
· 1 school box with lid (approximately 5 by 8 inches-not any larger)
· 3 pocket folders (example: Pee Chee)
· 3 wide-ruled spiral notebooks (make sure they are spiral bound with non-perforated pages)
· 1 pair childrens pointed scissors
· 10 #2 pencils (please sharpen at home)
· 1 package wide-tip colored markers (label individually)
· 1 box of 18 or more sharpened colored pencils
· 1 pink eraser
· 5 glue sticks (no liquid glue, please)
· 1 box 24 or more crayons
· 1 box of Kleenex
· 1 emergency food pack
· 1 package low odor Dry Erase wide-tip markers
· 1 small recent individual photograph (no larger than 1 ˝ by 2 inches)
· A check payable to Time for Kids-$4.12
Please come prepared with all of your supplies on the first day of school, Wednesday, September 2nd.