The countdown is ON!!! Christmas is nearing and we have some important dates to remember!

Upcoming dates to remember:

TONIGHT– Is the White Oak Christmas Parade

Dec. 19th- Early Release Day for students at 11:45 Lunch will be early also. No parents eating with children, please. This is also the Primary’s Pajama Day.

Dec. 20th- Christmas Party at 9:00. Early Release Day @ 11:45

Christy Clinnard has volunteered to be our Christmas Party Room Mother!! HUGE thanks to her! She will be heading it up, but will also be calling the parents that volunteered food, supplies, and goodie bags from the beginning of the year to help. If you have any ideas or want to contact her with anything her number is (903)241-5544. I’m sure we will have an amazing party!

All parents are welcome to the party as well!

Students will be exchanging 50-100 piece puzzles at the party. Boys exchange with boys/Girls exchange with girls. These can be found from $1-$5 at dollar stores, Target, and/or Walmart. A note about this will come home this week.

Thank you for everything you do!!!!!!

Mrs. Hart

Hello everyone!! Only one more school week until Turkey Time!!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated canned goods and food! It is such a beautiful thing to help those in need.

TOMORROW is the BIG DAY!! Reader’s Theater will take place tomorrow at 11:30 in our classroom! You are in for a treat because these kids have worked so hard and are doing so well! Thanks to all the parents helping at home!

PLEASE enter through the PRIMARY entrance door tomorrow for our program! Thank you!

We will be preparing for our Thanksgiving 1st grade Feast on Thursday. WOP asks that you not eat with your child on  Thursday November 16th,  as it is a special day for togetherness with their classmates.

There will be sub later this week. Incase of emergency or schedule/bus changes please call the

PRIMARY OFFICE: (903)291-2160

The readers’ theater parts have been assigned and should be practiced at home …and we will practice during school for the music part of the performance.

Please be sure the students have the parts rehearsed to be read LOUD and CLEAR so they can be heard and understood during the performance.

As I said in the note home, we will be performing TUESDAY, Nov. 14th, at 11:30. Other 1st grade classes will be performing Friday, but I will be out of town so we have moved ours to Tuesday. I will continue to send out reminders.

This week in phonics skills we will be learning to add -s and -es to the end of words to make them plural.

In addition to reading their parts, we will be practicing in guided reading and sending home new books. Please continue to read every night and sign the log.

In math we are starting subtraction. This is another reason reading is so important so they can locate key words in math problems to know whether to add or subtract. (take away, gave away, ate, how many are left?)

In Social Studies we are learning more about American Symbols along with Thanksgiving History.

In science we will be doing STEM activities to shelter and protect our turkey so he won’t get eaten for dinner.

Spelling words: but,what, all, were, when, we, there, can, an, your (once again, tricky set of words. Please work and find ways to practice to better your child’s spelling of High Frequency Words.)

I am thankful for all of YOU and I am thankful for each day with your sweeties!

We had a fun filled day in 1st grade yesterday dressing up, fun parades, having STEM activities, and lots of treats!!

These kids are the cutest kids I have ever seen!!!! It was so fun seeing them all dressed up! I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween!

Watching the Kindergarten Halloween Parade

Watching the Kindergarten Halloween Parade

Carter, Addie, Logan, Brooks with our jack-o-lantern Bobby

Parker, Brody, Graycee, Ariannah, and Xander with our Jack-o-lantern Bobby

Cruz, AJ, Sophie, and Evan with our jack-o-lantern Bobby

Karsyn, Eli, Jayden, Adilyn, and Lyla with our jack-o-lantern Bobby

Our fun masks we got to color provided by Mrs. Christy Clinnard!

We built candy corn towers as a STEM activity! Challenging, but fun!

The 1st grade teachers got in on the fun being dressed as Favorite Holidays!

Tomorrow Primary students may dress up for halloween. If your child participates be sure there is no gore, masks, or props brought to school. The costumes must be within dress code.

We will be having a fun-filled Halloween day based off of STEM projects and fun Halloween activities.

Wednesday. Nov. 1— will be a half day for teacher professional development. We will release at 11:30 so if there are any changes, please note them in the planner!! This is very crucial for half days.

Spelling: THESE WORDS are very tricky. but, what, all, were, when

In phonics skills we are wrapping up diagraphs- sh, th, wh, ch and starting plurals (adding s or es to word to mean more than one)

Math- Combinations and missing addends.

Social studies- American Symbols

Science- Pumpkin life cycle and planting our very own pumpkins!!

Here are some pictures of our superheroes from last week!

The League Of Extraordinary 1st Graders!!!!

These capes are so cute! Some even got creative with jackets!!

Superman has a lot of look-a-likes

A note will be coming home, but here is our Red Ribbon day! Don’t worry about spending a lot of money or getting TOO into it, unless you and your firstie want to! 😉

I hope you are all having a great weekend!!

We have been working hard and loving that it’s October! These kids are impressing me daily!!

We have been really concentrating on blends in words. This is really going to help them read and especially write!

We will continue with number sense, combinations, and will begin our unit on shapes. They will need to know the name of the shape, the attributes, and how to manipulate shapes.

Spelling words- be, this, from, I, have, or, by, one, had, not in addition to all others learned previously. Test next week!

In science we have learned about nocturnal animals such as spiders, bats, and will continue with owls!

They are learning many facts and are little scientists.

We will be having a sticker story station this week. If you are out and about, and would like to help us, please send us seasonal stickers to use! They love to create a scene with stickers. It really drives and motivates their writing.

Remember NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!!

Have a fabulous week!!

–Lacey Hart

Fall Pictures are coming home today! These kids are so stinkin’ adorable!!

If you didn’t order pictures but would like to after you see the preview, the info will be in the Lifetouch envelope.

Earlier this week we went to the middle school library to see the 8th graders projects! The kids FELL IN LOVE and were so amazed at all the different homes. They were so funny “oooing” aad “ahhhhing”

They saw adobes, igloos, and houses made of wood with creativity, that looked very different then their houses.

Upcoming Events:

Next Friday, October 20th is a Student Holiday!

When we come back the 23rd, it will be Red Ribbon Week. Kids will dress up to a different theme each day to say “I’m Drug Free”

We will be allowed to dress up October 31st in costumes for Halloween but  NO blood, gore, or masks. 

Thank you for all you do!! Here are some pictures of excited kids.

Lyla, Brody, and Logan lean in to a really cool model of a house made from sticks.

These sweeties were yelling “Oh wow!!!” and “COOOOOL!!”

The models had amazing details! The 8th graders did a great job! Carter and Eli look very interested

Brooks is explaining what he was seeing.

It’s almost FRIDAY!!! These weeks are really flying by! OCTOBER is HERE!

Tomorrow we will have our spelling test. Please be sure to review and practice the spelling preview coming home today.

We have been working on combinations, comparing numbers, (>,<,=) and will be continuing next week as well.

We have started our study on spiders and will continue on to nocturnal animals next week in science.

In writing we will write our first SpoOoOkY class story.

Spelling words for next week are: be, this, I, from, have

Phonics- We have been working super hard on long and short vowels and will be assessing off of those this week.  We will begin working on consonant blends (bl, sl, sp, sc, sk, cr, etc…)  These are so important for the kiddos to understand that we no longer break these sounds up but say them together.  (EX: s-p is now sp)

ALSO NO PEP RALLY or GAME THIS FRIDAY

Thanks for all you do!

Lacey Hart

I am now Mrs. Hart!! YaY!!!! Thank you for all your sweet words, congratulations, and gifts! Y’all truly blessed me!