Brignac's Brightest: March 2024

Sunday, March 17, 2024

First Grade News: March 17

Peek at the Week:

Want to hear about our week? Ask your child the following questions:

Math:

Can you add these numbers together?

Reading:

What did you learn about house spiders?

Can you read the following sight words?

live
me
back
give
most

What does Bossy R do to vowels? What other Bossy R words can you name?

What do you remember about these vocabulary words?

Writing:

This week we worked on writing a story that tells a BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END!

What did you write about this week?

Things to Know:

Book Character Parade:

Every year we look forward to this Somerset tradition! Kids can dress as a character from their favorite book. It can be as easy as dressing in all one color to be a crayon from The Day the Crayons Quit as an example. Some other fun ideas are: a character from Curious George, Little House on the Prairie, Fancy Nancy, Pete the Cat, Elephant and Piggy, etc. Have fun!! Students can wear or bring a simple book character costume to school, and the accompanying book. Let me know if you need to borrow a book from our school or classroom library!

More Examples:

Wear all pink and you become Pinkalicious.

Cut fake glasses out of paper and wear your backpack and your Jack from the Magic Tree House.

Draw on some whiskers and you are a cat from a variety of story books

Parents, if you would like to come and watch the book character parade, you may join us. The parade will begin at 1:00. We will start checking parents in at the office around 12:45.

Music announcement:

At Somerset, concerts for grades 1-4 are on a biennial rotation: spring concerts one year, winter concerts the next. This year there are spring concerts for grades 1-4, no winter concerts. Kindergarten has a spring concert only.

Questions? Please Kari Peterson music teacher
kari.peterson@isd197.org
music room: 651-403-8213

Grade 1 • Evening Concert for Parents
Thursday • May 16, 2024
6:00-6:30 p.m.
First graders arrive in the gym by 5:45.
Children stay with their families until the signal is given.

Important Dates:

Thr 3/21: Book Character Parade 1:00
Fri 3/22: No School-End of Quarter 3
Spring Break-No School March 22-31. School Resumes on Monday, April 1.

Picture Time!

Friday, March 1, 2024

First Grade News (March 1st, 2024)

Peek at the Week:

Want to hear about our week? Ask your child the following questions:

Math:

What are these numbers?

Can you round these numbers to the nearest TEN?

Can you round these numbers to the nearest HUNDRED?

Reading:

How do these community helpers care for the community?

Can you read the following sight words?

new
over
sound
take
only

Can you read these long-u words?

What do you remember about these vocabulary words?

Writing:

This week we worked on writing a story that tells a BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END!

What did you write about this week?

Things to Know:

Library Books:

We have library day every Friday. It has been rumored that some students are afraid to take their library books home out of concern that they may be missing the next "treasure chest" day. You will always get advanced notice about treasure chest days, and they will always coincide with a larger break from school (i.e. the next treasure chest day will be the Friday before Spring Break). Encourage your child to bring library books home, read them, and then return them at any time the following week! :-)

Classroom Wish List:

So many of you were kind enough to ask if there was anything our classroom needs while we met at conferences last night! Throughout the year, I add to my own amazon "school list" of things that I plan on buying for the classroom. On it, there are maintenance items such as small eraser pads for our whiteboards, magic eraser sponges, and other things that our classroom just needs to function. I did, however, add some other items that would be nice to have such as new books and things to keep our choice time bins exciting! If you are interested, you can visit the list on amazon here. Thank you so much!

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