Weekly Update for 03/05/18

One District, One Book

On Monday, your child will be a copy comes home Monday as we kick off “One District, One Book.” I hope that you’ll invest time to read at least 15 minutes each evening and discuss the character qualities of gumption, resilience, integrity, and tenacity that are demonstrated by Fern, Wilbur, and their barnyard friends. More information will be coming home with the book about each night’s reading. 

March Madness Spirit Month

We are going to be celebrating March Madness every Friday.  Below is the list of dates and how to show your spirit.

March 9^th:  Wear your favorite team

March 16^th:  Wear green (Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day)

March 23^rd: Wear Blue (Each grade level wears a special color)

March 30^th:  Dress up as your favorite character from Charlotte’s Web

Yearbook, Class Picture, and Spring Picture Information

It is time to order yearbooks, whole class photos, and yearbook makeup photos. Also, spring pictures are coming up! Please see the instructions below.

(1) ORDER YEARBOOKS: Order Deadline: Tuesday 3/27/18

Instructions: Either order online, or return your order form with payment to the main office 

Online Ordering: www.AccessMyEvent.com/HJDK76

Yearbook Delivery: Yearbooks will be delivered to the school and go home with your student at the end of the school year

(2) ORDER WHOLE CLASS PHOTOS: Order Deadline: order online by Tuesday 3/27/18

Instructions: Please read the ordering instructions on the log in page

Online Ordering: http://blue-dominion-studios.hhimagehost.com/CarrolltonWholeClassPhotos2018

Product Delivery: Photo orders will ship directly to the address you provide (not the school)

(3) ORDER YEARBOOK MAKEUP PHOTOS (for new students):

Order Deadline: order online by Tuesday 3/27/18

Instructions: Please read the ordering instructions on the log in page

Online Ordering: http://blue-dominion-studios.hhimagehost.com/YearbookMakeupforNewStudents2018

Product Delivery: Photo orders will ship directly to the address you provide (not the school)

(4) SPRING PICTURES When: Thursday 3/15/18

Instructions: Mark your calendars! Spring pictures are on Thursday 3/15/18. These pictures are OPTIONAL! Only students who want to photographed, will be photographed. Please let your child's teacher know if you would like for your child to be photographed. The background will be a Spring Azalea garden. You must have signed a photo release form with the school or your child will not be photographed. 

Ordering: Order forms will be delivered to the school about two weeks after Spring pictures

What are we learning this week?

Reading SOL 1.9  The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts.
b) Set a purpose for reading.

e) Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about what is read.

f) Identify characters, setting, and important events.

Writing SOL 1.13 The student will write to communicate ideas of a variety of purposes. 

a) Generate ideas.

b) Focus on one topic.

c) Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, and events.

d) Use complete sentences in final copies.

e) Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation in final copies.

f) Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words in final copies.

g) Share writing with others.

Math SOL  1.2a Place Value

1.2b  The student, given up to 110 objects, will

a) group a collection into tens and ones and write the corresponding numeral;

*in the number 23, the 2 is in the tens place and the value of the 2 is 20

*47 is 47 ones or can also be grouped into 4 tens with 7 ones left over

b) compare two numbers between 0 and 110 represented pictorially or with concrete objects, using the words greater then, less than or equal to; and

c) order three or fewer sets from least to greatest and greatest to least.

Weekly Schedule

*Monday, March 5  Green Resource  352 Steps 

Spring Book Fair Opens

*Tuesday, March 6  Blue Resource 356 Steps
2nd Grade Weather/Empty Bowls, Full Hearts @ 5:30

*Wednesday, March 7 No School

Teacher Workday and Conference Day

*Thursday, March 8  Purple Resource 360 Steps

*Friday, March 9 Red Resource 364 Steps

Grand Lunch @ 11:35

March Madness Spirit Day: Wear your favorite team 

                Looking Ahead

• March 13^th: PTA meeting and Kindergarten program @ 6:45
• March 30^th: Last day of the 3^rd quarter and “One District, One Book” finale
• April 2nd – 6^th: Spring Break!

·  April 7^th: 1st Grade Expo 6:15-7:00