"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

-Aristotle

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Week 8 Sept. 24-28

CONFERENCES:
Parent teachers conferences will be held after fall break.  The Athenian Echo has links for all of the teachers' conferences schedules.  In case you missed it, here is the link for 1A:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c45a5ad2ea2ff2-fall1

If you use the link on here you will have to cut and paste it into  your browser bar.  Otherwise you can go to the Athenian Echo and just click on the link.

FIELD TRIP:
The first grade fall field trip in scheduled for Oct. the 25th.  Information and a permission slip are in your child's red homework folder.  More information will come after fall break.

BLUE FRIDAY FOLDERS:
Please check the blue Friday folders each week.  Going though papers and allowing scholars to teach you is another excellent learning opportunity!

SPALDING:
Starting this week, students will be learning 10 new words each day with a review on Thursday and a spelling test on Friday.

MATH:
We will continue to work on methods of subtracting numbers within 10.  We will do a chapter review on Thursday and the unit test is on Friday.

SCIENCE:
The test on Matter is tomorrow.  A study guide was sent home in the blue folders on Friday and we spent Friday and today reviewing. 

This week, first graders will be studying electricity.

LITERATURE:
Owl at Home

GRAMMAR:
Common Nouns and Proper Nouns - Focus on Places

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Friday, September 28 -Half Day Dismissal: 12 PM
* Trivium Spirit Day *
No Lunch is served on half days. (Please send a healthy snack for your child to eat at recess.)
October 5th-12th -No School: Fall Break
Friday, October 12 -Quarter 1 Student Evaluations Emailed to Parents by 5pm
October 15-16 -No School: Parent/Teacher Conferences

Have a lovely week!