Progress Report Envelopes

Your child's progress report is in their red folder.  Please sign the envelope and return just the envelope to school tomorrow!  Thank you!

Thorson Family Wellness Night

 

The Annual Thorson Family Wellness Night is TOMORROW, January 31st; 5:30-8:00-pm. – So much fun is planned for tomorrow night: Zumba, Tae Kwon Do, Fitness Obstacle Course, "Piggly Wiggly" Yogurt Parfaits, Family Yoga, and much more.  Don’t miss out on the fun!

Volunteers are still needed!  Please consider volunteering 1-hour of your time at this event – Click to here http://vols.pt/tYb714 to volunteer – Thank you!

Parent/Teacher Conferences

It is time for Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences! Once again we are coordinating the conference calendars through VolunteerSpot.com. Conferences will be held on Tuesday, March 11th from 5:00PM until 8:00PM and on Thursday, March 13th from 12:20PM until 7:40PM. Each conference is 15 minutes in length. The link below will take you directly to VolunteerSpot.com where you can select Mrs. Majinski and then your preferred conference day/time.

IT'S EASY! JUST CLICK THE LINK BELOW. THEN CLICK ON THE ORANGE "SIGN UP" BUTTON

 

http://vols.pt/5CptWy

 

A couple helpful hints:

If prompted to enter a name, please enter only yours or your child's last name. If not prompted to enter a name, NO WORRIES; it only means that VolunteerSpot already knows who you are (and so do we).

For those of you with more than one child here at Thorson, you can open more than one calendar at a time and toggle between the two via your browser's tabs.

Spelling, Challenge, and Vocabulary Words

                                                 

done

sweater

June

rule

cube

Challenge Words

waste

recycle

Vocabulary Words

find

after

done

old

terrific

creation

new

work

Winter Carnival First Grade Basket

We are collecting items for our first grade winter carnival baskets.  First grade has three themes this year:

 

Boy - Minecraft Basket - pickaxe, magnets - anything related to Minecraft!

Girl - Anything and everything Barbie.

Theme Basket – MIXED BAG – tons of surprises in this one – anything goes!

You can either purchase an item to be added to our theme baskets or you can donate money towards the basket and items will be purchased in order to fill each basket.  Please send the items to school with your child.  We will have a donation box in our classroom.

Thank you for your support!

January 27th Newsletter

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This week in reading we will be working on drawing conclusions.  The students will practice listening for details and after each detail they will be asked to draw a conclusion.  We are also going to focus on the sound of u as in the word cute.

In math, we are going to use our addition and subtraction math facts in order to figure out “What’s My Rule?” problems.  We will also continue learning about fact families and name collection boxes.  Look at the parent letter for further explanation on name collection boxes.  Look for Home Links 5.13, 6.1 and 6.2 to come home this week.

Remember to keep practicing addition and subtraction facts at home.  There are a lot of fun resources on the Thorson website that help with addition and subtraction,  a good one to check out is “Math Bingo” on www.abcya.com.  XtraMath.org is another great resource and a fun way for the children to practice their math facts!

Children are expected to be able to retell the take-home books that come home in their book bags.  Please practice this with your child before returning each book to school.

Special Points of Interest

• MAPS testing begins this week.  Our reading MAPS tests will be on Tuesday and Friday this week.
• Valentine's Day classroom parties are on Friday, February 14th at 2:30
• Thorson Winter Carnival is on Saturday, February 8th from 11:00-3:00

Hudson is this week's star of the week!

Spelling, Challenge, and Vocabulary Words

brother

under

to

those

use

 

Challege Words

behavior

group

 

Vocabulary Words

sparkled

every

any

soon

saw

floating

opened