Field Trip Has Been Cancelled

Dear parents,

The first grade teachers are so sorry to report that the field trip for this Friday has been cancelled.  The company that is putting on the production did not have enough seats remaining to accomodate all of us.  They were going to try to add a 2nd performance, but decided against it.  We are very disappointed, but we will be taking a field trip in the spring to coincide with our unit on animals.  We will save the money that you sent in for the Nutcracker tickets to use for our spring field trip.  We are very sorry any inconvenience.  

Sincerely,

RBES First Grade Team

Week of November 30-December 4th

Week of November 30-December 4th

Here’s a peek at next week:

Spelling words: snack, street, throat, shin, strong, poles, sprain, north, bright, shine

Challenge Words:December, lights, reindeer

Phonics- review from past weeks

Reading: Daily 5 implementation with emphasis on asking and answering questions about details in texts.(Compare/Contrast). We will be reading gingerbread stories and applying reading comprehension strategies.(Looking at non fiction texts and identifying text features) We will also discuss and identify story elements.

L.Arts: Fix it up: Sentence correction (capitalization, punctuation, does my sentence make sense, plural/possessive noun, personal pronouns) How can I use a dictionary and or thesaurus?

Writing Workshop: Working on teaching booklets about things we are 'experts' at. We teach with our pictures by adding details, labels and words. We will make sure our table of contents matches our book.

Math:Review adding and subtracting strategies. Introduce geometry... what are attributes? How can I identify a shape? What are fractions?

Social Studies: Who was Harriet Tubman? What did she have to do with the Underground Railraod? Who was George Washington Carver? Why do we study him? What did Theodore Roosevelt do for the United States?

 Homework 

1.Study spelling words! (Try out Spelling City) 

2. Interview a Family Member Assignment (Compare past to present)

MAP TESTS

We will be taking the Reading MAP test onTuesday, December 1st at 9:30 AM.  We hope to see the students' scores improve from when we took the MAP in August. 

***Please make sure your child comes to school well-rested. A healthy breakfast also helps!

We will take the Math MAP test on Tuesday, December 8th at 9:30 AM. 

We are going on a Field Trip!!!

When: December 4th from 8 to 11

Where: The Oconee County Civic Center

Who: All of first grade

What: To see the "Nutcracker" performance. 

Cost: $ 7 per student

                                It's Secret Santa Time!  

If you would like to help with this year's Secret Santa, please use this Secret Santa Survey Link to complete a short survey.  Mrs. Porter will contact you about how you would like to help.

You can help by:

• Purchasing a specific gift or gifts from a child's wish list (anywhere from $10 - $200).
• Making a financial contribution to Secret Santa.
• Volunteering your time to organize the Secret Santa boxes and items.
• Volunteering your time to shop with donated money.
• Volunteering your time to write follow-up thank you notes.

Speak Up Survey

Rocky Branch Elementary School would love to have ALL parents and students complete this survey about our school. 

Thank you for taking the time to participate! :) 

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2015/

At Rocky Branch our focus is on finding solutions to our problems. We have been learning some techniques ( Ignore it, talk it over respectfully with the person, try to agree on a win-win solution or get help from the teacher) We are working to be problem solvers by using the wheel of choice that we created as a class and to share our thoughts with each other during class meetings. We have created bonds by sharing strategies that have worked in the past. :)

     

          

Please have your child participate in the Six Flags Read to Succeed Program by reading and recording 6 hours of reading.  Once they have completed and documented their reading, please have them return the completed form to me.  The deadline to submit your reading log is Friday, February 19.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  You can print out the forms below by clicking on the link.

Parent Letter (Print Out)

Reading Log (Print out)

Changes in Transportation

Please use attached forms for changes in transportation. 

FORMS

Snack Reminders

-Please send a healthy snack {low in sugar} to school with your child every day.

-Due to having 5 minutes for snack time, please send in only one snack.

-Please only send a small water bottle for your child to have with his/her snack.

Upcoming Events

11/23 - 11/27 Thanksgiving Break-- No School!! :)

12/4 - Field Trip 8:00-11:00

12/10 - 5th Grade Musical

12/18 - End of 2nd 9 Weeks

Have a great Thanksgiving!!

Upcoming Events for November 16th- 20th

Week of November 16th-20th

Here’s a peek at next week:

Spelling words: cube, glue, rule, tune, huge, also, small, because, ask, little.

Challenge Words: contribution, beautiful

Phonics- long u (ule, ume, ue, ude, uke, ube)

Reading: Daily 5 implementation with emphasis on asking and answering questions about details in texts.(Compare/Contrast). We will be reading about The First Thanksgiving and applying reading comprehension strategies.(Looking at non fiction texts and identifying text features)

L.Arts: Fix it up: Sentence correction (capitalization, punctuation, does my sentence make sense, plural/possessive noun, personal pronouns) What are pronouns and how can I use them? What do I need to create a complete sentence? How do I identify an incomplete sentence?

Writing Workshop: Working on teaching booklets about things we are 'experts' at. We teach with our pictures by adding details, labels and words.

Math:What is time? How do we use it? Telling time to the nearest hour and half hour. 

Social Studies: What is Thanksgiving? Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?

 Homework 

1.Study spelling words! 

2.Reading Comprehension: Pilgrim children

3. Math Thanksgiving Story Problems

4.READ! :)

5. Try out XtraMath (linked on the right!)

We are going on a Field Trip!!!

When: December 4th from 8 to 11

Where: The Oconee County Civic Center

Who: All of first grade

What: To see the "Nutcracker" performance. 

Money: $ 7 per student

Please send the signed permission form and $7 by Wednesday, November 18th.

                                It's Secret Santa Time!  

If you would like to help with this year's Secret Santa, please use this Secret Santa Survey Link to complete a short survey.  Mrs. Porter will contact you about how you would like to help.

You can help by:

• Purchasing a specific gift or gifts from a child's wish list (anywhere from $10 - $200).
• Making a financial contribution to Secret Santa.
• Volunteering your time to organize the Secret Santa boxes and items.
• Volunteering your time to shop with donated money.
• Volunteering your time to write follow-up thank you notes.

 The Growing Mound of Lost and Found

As we've had cooler and wetter weather, we've started seeing the Lost and Found Mound growing again.  Please ask your child to look through Lost and Found for any lost items.  If you are planning to join us for Thanksgiving Lunch, please take the time to look through Lost and Found while you are here. It will be organized to help you look so you don't have to search The Mound!

Also, please help by putting your child's name in all jackets, sweatshirts, or sweaters that he/she wears to school. (lunchboxes and water bottles, too)  We really do look for names and will return them to your child IF the item has a name in it.  Any items still in Lost and Found on Thursday, November 26 will be washed and donated.  Items in good condition are sold at a consignment store and the proceeds go to RBES Secret Santa or counseling needs that arise throughout the school year.

Speak Up Survey

Rocky Branch Elementary School would love to have ALL parents and students complete this survey about our school. 

Thank you for taking the time to participate! :) 

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2015/

At Rocky Branch our focus is on finding solutions to our problems. We have been learning some techniques ( Ignore it, talk it over respectfully with the person, try to agree on a win-win solution or get help from the teacher) We are working to be problem solvers by using the wheel of choice that we created as a class and to share our thoughts with each other during class meetings. We have created bonds by sharing strategies that have worked in the past. :)

     

                     CAN-A-THON at RBES 

Thank  you for contributing to our can-a-thon. Every can makes a difference for a family in need!! :) I will update once we get a final count of how many cans we collected as a school! 

Please have your child participate in the Six Flags Read to Succeed Program by reading and recording 6 hours of reading.  Once they have completed and documented their reading, please have them return the completed form to me.  The deadline to submit your reading log is Friday, February 19.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  You can print out the forms below by clicking on the link.

Parent Letter (Print Out)

Reading Log (Print out)

Changes in Transportation

Please use attached forms for changes in transportation. 

FORMS

Upcoming Events

11/23 - 11/27 Thanksgiving Break-- No School!! :)

12/4 - Field Trip 8:00-11:00

12/18 - End of 2nd 9 Weeks

Have a great weekend!!

Upcoming Events for November 9th - 13th

Week of November 9th-13th

Here’s a peek at next week:

Spelling words: globe, home, those, road, coast, toe, water, could, look, every.

Challenge Words: tomorrow, ownership

Phonics- long o (o, oa, ow, o_e)

Reading: Daily 5 implementation with emphasis on asking and answering questions about details in texts.(Compare/Contrast). We will be reading about turkeys and applying reading comprehension strategies.(Text to Self, Text to World)

L.Arts: Fix it up: Sentence correction (capitalization, punctuation, does my sentence make sense, plural/possessive noun, personal pronouns) What are pronouns and how can I use them?

Writing Workshop: Working on teaching "chapter books" about things we are 'experts' at. We teach with our pictures by adding details, labels and words. We will review editing our writing and how to make a table of contents. We will learn how to create chapter books. 

Math:How to balance equations, subtracting zero, subtracting same number, counting back and subtracting with doubles. Students will learn the rules of subtraction and subtraction fact strategies. 

Social Studies: Who is Thomas Jefferson? What is he known for?

 Homework 

1.Study spelling words! (Try out Spelling City) 

2.Reading Comprehension Worksheet (Hippo and Frog)

3.Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
4.Create a disguise for your turkey(Not due Nov. 17th, which is a Tuesday not Thursday as the page description says)

5.READ! :)

Classroom Wishlist:

We have run out of Dry Erase Expo Markers! The students use these daily to record their math strategies or participate in a grammar lesson! Please send some in if you are able. It is on Mrs. Green's shopping list as well. :)

Missing Book:

If you have this leveled reader book at home please send it in. It belongs to the RBES leveled reader library. It was read by a small guided reading group a few weeks ago.

                                 It's Secret Santa Time!  

If you would like to help with this year's Secret Santa, please use this Secret Santa Survey Link to complete a short survey.  Mrs. Porter will contact you about how you would like to help.

You can help by:

• Purchasing a specific gift or gifts from a child's wish list (anywhere from $10 - $200).
• Making a financial contribution to Secret Santa.
• Volunteering your time to organize the Secret Santa boxes and items.
• Volunteering your time to shop with donated money.
• Volunteering your time to write follow-up thank you notes.

                                  The Growing Mound of Lost and Found

As we've had cooler and wetter weather, we've started seeing the Lost and Found Moundgrowing again.  Please ask your child to look through Lost and Found for any lost items.  If you are planning to join us for Thanksgiving Lunch, please take the time to look through Lost and Found while you are here. It will be organized to help you look so you don't have to search The Mound!

Also, please help by putting your child's name in all jackets, sweatshirts, or sweaters that he/she wears to school. (lunchboxes and water bottles, too)  We really do look for names and will return them to your child IF the item has a name in it.  Any items still in Lost and Found on Thursday, November 26 will be washed and donated.  Items in good condition are sold at a consignment store and the proceeds go to RBES Secret Santa or counseling needs that arise throughout the school year.

At Rocky Branch our focus is on finding solutions to our problems. We have been learning some techniques ( Ignore it, talk it over respectfully with the person, try to agree on a win-win solution or get help from the teacher) We are working to be problem solvers by using the wheel of choice that we created as a class and to share our thoughts with each other during class meetings. We have created bonds by sharing strategies that have worked in the past. :)

     

                     CAN-A-THON at RBES 

We are now beginning our can-a-thon at RBES! We will help feed the families in need in Oconee. Last year as a school we brought in 3,100 cans and our goal this year is to bring in 3,500. Thank you for helping out as you can! We look forward to reaching our school goal! :)  Thank  you for helping us reach and PASS our class goal!!

Please have your child participate in the Six Flags Read to Succeed Program by reading and recording 6 hours of reading.  Once they have completed and documented their reading, please have them return the completed form to me.  The deadline to submit your reading log is Friday, February 19.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  You can print out the forms below by clicking on the link.

Parent Letter (Print Out)

Reading Log (Print out)

Changes in Transportation

Please use attached forms for changes in transportation. 

FORMS

Snack Reminders

-Please send a healthy snack {low in sugar} to school with your child every day.

-Due to having 5 minutes for snack time, please send in only one snack.

-Please only send a small water bottle for your child to have with his/her snack.

Upcoming Events

RBES Can-a-thon November 2nd- November 13th

11/7- Belk Charity 6:00-10:00

11/10 - RBES PTO 6:30-7:30

11/11- Veterans Day

11/12 - Thanksgiving Feast  10:30-1:30

11/23 - 11/27 Thanksgiving Break

Have a great weekend!!