Hodges Hotline 
Beauty
and the Beast was a huge success at their performance for the student body on
Friday. Thank you to everyone who was
part of the cast and to everyone who helped in any way with the show.
I
can’t believe we are now in the month of May.
That means we only have a short amount of time remaining to learn
everything we haven’t had time to get to yet.
Needless to say this is going to be an extremely busy time for us. I’ll probably be keeping your children 24/7
to accomplish all of our goals!
Our Spelling words this week are List 29: caped, drawing, helped, glittering, offering,
evaluated, inviting, hampered, chasing, tosses, capped, bundled, quilting,
constructed, wandered, crashing, washes, dribbling, regurgitated, and triumphed. Bonus words are by and bye. The Clover rules this week are closed
syllable, open syllable, magic e, le jingle, and bossy r. This week we’ll complete a base word sheet
again. In the first column they are to
write the base word only. In the 2nd
column they are to write the base word with the ending (spelling word). The blends this week are (dr, ng, lp, gl, mp,
lt, str, ct, nd, cr, tr, and mph); the digraphs are (tt, ff, ch, ss, pp, sh, bb,
and ph). All of our words excluding the
bonus words have an ending. PLEASE,
PLEASE, PLEASE make sure your child can spell the base word and then asks the
questions prior to spelling the words. Many
of our words this week are a lot more difficult and you probably won’t find
them on many first grade spelling lists.
However, your children have been given all of the rules and strategies
(Clover, sound counting, Tucker) they need to spell these words correctly. Please have your children practice their words
using those rules and strategies. If
they are still spelling many of their words incorrectly they aren’t practicing
with rules & strategies.
Math
this week we’re going to do more work with place value, money, and
fractions. We are doing double digit
subtraction, with borrowing, and double digit addition, with carrying, as part
of our morning work. I’ve told your
children if they weren’t so smart we couldn’t do this type of work in first
grade! We’ll also continue to work on telling
time to the quarter hour with analog and digital clocks, addition and
subtraction facts, power facts, and equivalent names.
We’ll
continue to work on our reading assessments this week. This week we will work on Venn diagrams with
our fairy tales. We will also work with
Story Maps, QARs (Question-Answer-Relationship), and Somebody Wanted But So (SWBS)
strategies.
FYI:
Summer
Birthdays: Marleen, Noland, Paige,
Chase, Joshua, Camille, Aidan, and Milly
If you want to celebrate your birthday with a treat
for the class please choose a date and let me know. If the date has already been taken I’ll let
you know.
Candy
bar sales in First Grade were fantastic.
Thank you to everyone for your participation in this school-wide fund
raiser. First Graders Rock!
The
1st and 2nd grades are filling a basket for the silent
auction at the May Festival. Our basket
is Arts and Crafts. Any item (new) that
can be used for any art or craft project can be donated. The Dollar stores are great places to pick up
items for the basket. We want to fill it
as full as we possibly can.
Upcoming Events:
Friday,
May 7, May Crowning during
Homework:
Monday: Read, Sp-Base Word & 7Up sent, Math Δ’s
Tuesday: Read, Sp-Base Word & 7Up sent, Math Δ’s
Wednesday: Read, Sp-Practice test, Math Δ’s
Thursday: Read, Sp-sheet, Math Δ’s
Friday: Read, Sp- Clover sort, Math Δ’s
If
you have any questions please contact me by phone or e-mail; 353-2282 school,
784-9197 home, chodges@littleflowerparish.org. I will respond as quickly as possible.
Mrs.
Hodges