Report Cards

Report cards will be coming home on Friday December 19th.  Here is some key Ideas and details of our Common Core Standards in reading that your student was measured on for report cards.  Here is the web Address for the CCSS for the rest of the standards www.corestandards.org.

 As usual, if you have any concerns or question about your students progress, please let me know and we can set up a time to meet  

Key Ideas and Details:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Craft and Structure:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.8
(RL.1.8 not applicable to literature)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.9
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.10
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Holiday Pajama Party!

You are invited to our First grade Pajama Party.  I will provide oatmeal and coffee.  Please sign up to bring your favorite oatmeal toppings, Juice, Bowls, plastic spoons.  At 10:00 am, we will move the party to the gymnasium for our Endeavour Holiday concert.  Please look for the flyer and send back the bottom portion.

Dates to Remember

Happy Thanksgiving!

Next weeks schedule...

Wednesday,  November 26-28th...No School
Friday, December 5th...Early Release
Friday, December 12th...Early Release
Monday, December 22nd-January 2nd...No school-Winter Break

Turkey in disguise

Our Turkeys in Disguise so far....Remember to have those Turkeys turned in by this Friday.

No school reminder!

Next Tuesday November 11th is Veterans Day!  No school on Tuesday only.  There will be school on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Homework Assignment

 Dear Parents,
It's time to have fun creating a very unusual bird. As a family, disguise Tom Turkey so that he won't be eaten for Thanksgiving! You may choose to dress your turkey as a doctor, an astronaut, a farmer, a cheerleader, a ballerina, a clown, etc... Be creative and use any materials you have at home. Everyone gets to help.
Cut out the enclosed turkey and mount him on cardboard or heavy paper. Make it very original and have fun! Please, help us save these turkeys! The turkey homework is due on November 14, but you may send it in earlier. When your Tom Turkey is incognito, he can "hide out" in our classroom!

Classroom Update

Upcoming events!

Wednesday November 5th

McTeacher Night- 5-7pm Endeavour teachers will be working the Orchards location drive thru, flipping burgers, and making ice cream treats!  We hope to see you there! 5517 NE Gher Rd. 

Thursday Nov. 6th

Picture Retakes

 

Friday Nov. 7th 

Movie Night! 5:30-7pm PTO event. Come watch a movie with friends and enter to win prizes in a raffle. I believe FROZEN won the movie choice vote.

Classroom needs...I am running low on snacks...If you could please send in a box of graham crackers, or gold fish, or crackers of any kind, that would be helpful. 

 

A note from the Library

Dear Parents/Guardians:

We value our students learning and want to encourage them to check out books and resources from our library. We’ve been reading stories and talking about how to take care of library books and bring them back on time so that others can enjoy them too. Please talk with your child again at home about taking special care of borrowed books.    

Here is some information which will help you to help them.

v     Find a safe place to keep library books when not being read. Your child’s backpack is a good place and makes it ready to return to school.

v     Please help your child remember to return his or her library books and bags on time so they can check out more books.

v     The returnable bag is important because it has your child’s library card number on the barcode and it also helps keep books protected to and from school.

v     If a student has a “Past Due” book, he/she will need to return that book before new books can be checked out. We hope this helps students find missing books sooner rather than later.

v     If a book can’t be located once it becomes past due, a fine letter will be sent home the following month and a plan will need to be made before future check outs.

v     Accidents happen. A responsible student will bring the book to the library to tell us about the damage. Do NOT try to fix books at home. We have special library repair supplies so we rarely have to use tape. In many cases we can fix the books and there is no need to pay for any damage.

v     If a book gets wet, stand it up so it can dry, separating the pages with paper towels. Return it as soon as possible to the library.

You can help your child develop reading readiness and vocabulary by reading library books to or with your child. Library books are much different than the practice books children use to learn to read in the classroom. The vocabulary is rich, complex, and usually too difficult for beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade.  Children develop a love of reading by hearing the flow and richness of language in caring voices of caring adults.

Your child’s library day is _Thursday_.

   Library Checkout   

Grade	# of books able to check out
Cozy Corner	1 book with a returnable bag
Kindergarteners begin check out in mid-September	1 book with a returnable bag
1st	1 book with a returnable bag
2nd	2 books – no bags this year
3rd	2 books
4th	3 books
5th	3 books

Please contact me if you ever have any questions or concerns about library books.

Endeavour Elementary (360)604-4920 or deanna.hamburger@evergreenps.org

I am here to help.

Sincerely,

Dee Hamburger, Teacher Librarian Technology Specialist

P.S.  Be sure to check out our library webpage at endeavourelementary.weebly.com