Happy Spring!                      

Look here for the latest "moos" from

     Mrs. Bowman's First Grade.

SPECIAL NOTES FOR THIS WEEK:

1. No School Monday

Memorial Day

Looking Ahead:

Early Dismissal (12:15): June 8,9 and 10

Our Class Awards Day is Wednesday June 10

at 10:30AM

We hope to see you there to help us celebrate all of our accomplishments this year!

2. Last day for bookbags: June 8

3. Last Day of School (Report Cards): June 10

Special Area Classes this week:

Mon. PE and Art

Tues. PE and Music

Wed. PE

 Thur. PE

Fri. PE

Did you know?

We did it again in 2007-2008!

Caloosa is an...

  School

for the 9th Year in a row! 

FYI:

 Homework should not take more than 20 minutes. If it does, let us know and we will try to give you some ideas for making it work.

Want to help your child improve his/her Language grade?

Working on writing skills will help. Here are some ideas for you to try:

1. Give your child sentences with missing capital letters and/or ending punctuation.Have him/her find the error(s) and correct them.

2. Dictate a 4 or 5 word sentence to your child using several new and old spelling words (check the Planner for lists). Have him/her write the sentences using correct capitals, spacing between words, spelling and ending punctuation.

3. Go over the graded writing prompt in the weekly packet and discuss the teacher's comments for improvement.

4. Give your child a topic sentence. Have him/her write 2 detail sentences supporting the topic.

[Example: (topic) Dogs make great pets. (details) They like to play catch with a frisbee. Dogs can protect their owners.]   

Spelling Lists will be updated by Tuesday afternoon.

Your child may bring home one library book each evening (except Friday). You may help him/her as needed with this book. It does need to be returned each day to be used in class. However, if you didn't finish it or need to read it again, it may come home until you are finished. 

Monday:          Math and Reading paper

Tuesday: Math and Reading paper                   

Wednesday:  Math and Reading paper

Thursday:     Math and Reading paper

Friday:          No Homework

                    Social Studies    

                Our character word for June:

                             Self-Control

                               Science

         This Quarter we will be studying about:

      Plants, Insects and Bugs, Solar System

                    AR Certifications

                  Congratulations to our

                      Ready Readers:

             Imari B.    Julie C    David L.   Karen B. Gabriella S.    David T.    Erica C.  

Argenis B.   Orlando A.    Keegan C.  

Robby M.  Erik M.  Yamireliz M.   Aron R. 

 Vanessa S.  David T.  Ethan T. 

        (10 AR points, 3 books 1.6 level or higher read alone)

             Julie    Gabriella   Karen   Imari  Argenis   Keegan   Ethan  Erica  Aron   David T.  Robby

      Congratulations to Our Rising Readers:

           Julie   Gabriella   Karen  Imari   Argenis   Keegan   Ethan

                        AND......

 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR  

      SUPER READERS:

   Julie  

                    Here's a Cheer for our 

          40-Point Club Members!

              Julie   Ethan   Gabriella   Imari   Argenis   Keegan   David L.  

       WOW! 100 AR POINTS:

Julie     Gabriella

       Imari--June 3   Aron--- June 7  Erica----July 16    

    Spelling for the week of 

June 1

Review Week

No new words

   Give a gift to the class:

Since we are experiencing large budget cuts, we could use your help.If you want to donate something to enrich the classroom experience for your child and his/her classmates, we could use the following items:

A donation of cash to use for cooking projects

A ream of white copy paper

Dollar store items for CAL-Mart

Small prizes for our Treasure Box

Lincoln Logs (may be used)

Legos (may be used)

toy cash register (may be used)

Thanks in advance for your help!

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1. Need to practice phonograms with your child, but don't know them yourself?

              The Spalding DVD – practicing the 70 phonograms – is now available on the county website for parents to use at home This is the link to find it:

            Go to Leeschools.net

            Click on Departments (left side)

            Click on Curriculum and Staff Development

            Click on Reading Skills Program – Student Practice Activities

            Scroll to the bottom and click on “Spalding DVD” – Windows Media Player

Here is an interesting website www.bookadventure.com   It is a great FREE website that is run by Sylvan Learning Center where the students can look up books that are at their reading level and in their interest in which they can take quizzes.  Most of their tests match our AR book list. 

When they take a quiz it grades them BUT does not tell them the right answer if they got it wrong.  They have the opportunity to retake a quiz but the questions will be different and similar questions will have answers rearranged.  The questions are NOT the same as our AR questions – I checked. J They can also earn points towards free prizes that their parents approve. 

It is a great tool to build confidence when moving up a level or trying chapter books for the first time.  They can also do this AT HOME for comprehension practice!!!

        Check it out and let me know what you think!