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Cartersville Primary School Phone 770-382-1733 CPS Website: ps.cartersville.k12.ga.us 1 st Grade Newsletter Week of Aug. 21-Sept. 1, 2017 Special Interest Articles: • Briefly highlight your point of interest here. • Briefly highlight your point of interest here. • Briefly Individual Highlights: Inside Story2 Inside Story3 Inside Story4 Inside Story5 Inside Story6 Inside Story7 Last Story 8 Just a few reminders: * Please make sure your child has a change of clothes in his/her backpack at all times. *Please label your child’s jackets/coats. *Newsletters will be sent home every 2 weeks. A Peek at the Week Week 1: today went make put so under she our he round Week 2 : grow will now are has friend no out teacher look **Study these sight words daily** Reading Students will continue listening to the read aloud The Wizard of Oz and working on the story elements of it. Students will also be working on making mental images from a text. Writer’s Workshop Students are continuing to work on writing a complete sentence – telling and asking. They are also learning about the elements of writing a narrative story. Math Students are working on counting by 1s starting at a given number. They are also still working on numbers before and after a given number. Phonics Students will be begin learning about specific letters and their sounds Character Word of the Month : Respect Respect is showing high regard for authority, other people, the environment, self, and country. Respect means treating others as you would want to be treated and Upcoming Events: Aug. 21 – School will be an extra 45 min. because of the solar eclipse. Dismissal: cars begin at 3:00 & buses at 3:15 (Parents may check out their child after 12. Any early check outs – 12 Canes Cash will be given to students who show that they can follow our expectations in the hallway, classroom, bathroom, cafeteria, and playground. These expectations are based from our CPS School Wide Expectations and behavior matrix that was sent home a couple of weeks ago. Birthday celebrations will be held at the end of each month and be coordinated by our room moms. This will NOT be a party, just a special snack. This is in lieu of
