It was very to nice to meet all of the concerned parents at Back-To-School Night last night. I hope you felt the time was well spent. Please feel free to use the comment section to add further questions or to let me know if there was some information you felt was especially helpful, surprising, or maybe something that was left out.
Speaking of things left out, a few things I forgot:
1) If you will recall when I was speaking about our math program and some of the methods we will use to learn our new concepts, I forgot that I was also going to tell you about a recurring theme which will show up in a variety of math tests this year. Your child will be asked often to explain how they know that a particular answer is correct. For example, if your child makes that claim that 7 + 5 = 12. A perfectly acceptable way to show that they know this is true is to use inverse operations. Since the inverse operation of addition is subtraction, your child may simply assert that they know 7 + 5 = 12 because 12 - 5 = 7.
2) A further math heads-up is that children in 1st grade are expected to learn to tell time to the half-hour and to count and identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and half dollars.
3) A couple of special days I failed to mention are of course Halloween and Valentine's Day. We will not be sharing any special treats on Halloween. We will have a Halloween parade to show off our costumes in the afternoon. Children are expected to bring their costume in a bag and will change after lunch. I would very much appreciate assistance in the putting on of costumes, in fact, I try to stay out of the way as much as possible for this activity. Girls change in room 8 with Mrs. Ramirez. Boys change in room 11 with my parent volunteers. For Valentine's Day, we will share treats and trade our special this and that's and we just love Valentine's Day in 1st grade.
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