October 26-30

Specials

Monday - 6

Tuesday - 1

Wednesday - 2

Thursday - 3

Friday - 4

Red Ribbon Week
Monday - your student will receive a red bracelet to wear all week.
Tuesday - Crazy Sock Day (Sock it to drugs!)
Wednesday - Sports Team Gear (Team up against Drugs!)
Thursday - Slipper Day (Don't Slip into Drugs)
Friday - Wear Red Day (First Grade will be dressing up as a character for our Character Day)

Upcoming Events
October 30 - Junie B. Jamboree and Great Pumpkin Investigation!!!
**Please click here for lots of ways you can help out! Choose 1, or 2, or 10!!**
October 19-30 - ELL Book Drive Continues
October 26-30 Red Ribbon Week
October 30 - Report Cards Go Home & Book Character Day! Send your first grader to school in a Fun Book Character Costume and let them bring their book to show us who they are! :) Could be Pete the Cat, Madeline, A Crayon, the list is huge!
Nov. 3 - No school for students.
Nov. 10 - PTA Family Night @ Chik-Fil-A at Fayette Mall
Nov. 11 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast 6:30-7:15AM
Nov. 13 - Awards Assembly K/1 10AM in Cafeteria. I will contact you soon if your student is receiving an award for this 9 weeks.
**Please sign-up for a Parent Teacher Conference here if you have not already done so!**

Kid-Friendly Objectives

I can write to tell a small moment.

I can use context clues to tell me the meaning of an unknown word.

I can identify words and phrases to determine feelings.

I can tell if what I am reading makes sense.

I can read, identify, and write -ck words.
I can solve subtraction by relating it to addition.

Spelling List
Please remember we will take this test on Thursday.

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs, Blue Dogs)

at
be
this
have
from
neck
luck
pick
pack
sock

List B (Yellow Ducks)

out
some
her
would
crack
trick
snack
check
quick
stick

Week in Review!
Here are some of the ways we deepened our learning in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. 

We continued practicing our Doubles Facts.

 

We continued to practice retelling by writing out a summary...on the tables!

We got very into our books during Read to Buddy time.

We read several Kevin Henkes books this week to practice identifying central message:

Central Message: Wemberly was always worried. We do not need to worry! We have grown-ups who can keep us safe.

Central Message: Change can be good...and sometimes even better!

Central Message: Being brave doesn't mean you're not allowed to be scared. Being scared doesn't mean you can never be brave.

We enjoyed our "Ketchup and Mustard" time on Friday. (We spend 5-10 minutes "ketch(up)ing up on unfinished work. Any unfinished work goes home for the weekend. The "mustards" are friends who worked hard all week to keep their desks clear of unfinished work. We celebrate with a bit of free time right before recess!) 

I look forward to another fun week with your first grader! :)

October 19-23

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday - 3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

Upcoming Events

October 18 - PTA 5K

October 20 - SBDM @ 5pm & PTA Meeting at 6:30

October 26-30 - Red Ribbon Week

October 30 - Report Cards Go Home/Dress up like a book Character/Junie B. Jamboree/Great Pumpkin Investigation (more info soon!!!!)

It's that time for Parent-Teacher Conferences!

• In an effort to save you time (and paperwork), I am using Volunteer Spot. Click the link and select a time that works best for you!
• You do not have to register/create an account to sign up. 
• Even though VolunteerSpot does not store e-mail addresses, if you would prefer to not input your e-mail address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually. 
• If you would like to invite an interpreter to our conference, please let me know ASAP!

Kid-Friendly Objectives

I can write about a small moment.
I can use spelling patterns.
I can identify and write words with the ch digraph.
I can retell a story using its characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end.
I can subtract by relating it to addition.

Reminders

Book Orders are due by October 25!
Spelling Tests will be every Friday.
Homework comes back each day to be graded!

Wish List

Stickers
Candy Corn
Skittles
used books for our library
treasure box items
hand sanitizer

Spelling List

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs, Blue Dogs)
chop
lunch
chill
such
bunch
watch
match
on
it
are

List B (Yellow Ducks)
hatch
watch
bench
match
chop
stretch
kitchen
will
up
about

What did we do last week?

This past week was so much fun! From rapping, to pumpkins, to guest readers...we did it all!

We had so much fun focusing on adjectives. 
To begin, we looked at our fancy adjective anchor chart and brainstormed a huge list of ways to describe objects.

We tested our skills by writing adjectives to describe a silly picture on the board.

Next, we got to test our adjective word bank by investigating pumpkins!

Ellie was thinking of a way to describe this pumpkin's weight. 

 Some of us wondered what our pumpkin smelled and sounded like.

Was our pumpkin bumpy or smooth? Or GREEN!

 Some pumpkins were....

 a little heavier than others. :)

Then we made our own pumpkin posters full of adjectives.

Finally, we made some fun Adjective Riddles!

We started to practice retelling stories. We began the week by reading Stellaluna. We mapped our batty book as a group.

 Then we got to retell the story independently on our own Stellaluna bats!

In math, we learned a pretty awesome rap to help us memorize our Doubles Facts!

 We ended our week with an 8th grade guest reader! It was so fun for our first graders to listen to a big kid read aloud. :) 

Thank you for letting me spend another great week with your first grader!

October 12 - October 16

Specials

Monday - 3

Tuesday - 4

Wednesday - 5

Thursday - 6

Friday - Non-Rotation (Career Day)

Upcoming Events

October 16 - End of 1st Grading Period
October 16 - Career Day

October 18 - PTA 5K

October 20 - SBDM @ 5pm & PTA Meeting at 6:30

October 26-30 - Red Ribbon Week

October 30 - Report Cards Go Home

Kid-Friendly Objectives

I can write about a small moment.

I can identify and write adjectives.

I can read, identify, and create the sound wh makes.

I can retell a story, including its characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end.

I can solve doubles and doubles + 1 equations.

I can explain the meaning of the equal sign. (=)

Spelling List

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs, Blue Dogs)

whip
why
when
where
white
what
while
he
was
for

List B (Yellow Ducks)

white
which
wheel
where
when
whistle
whale
do
how
if

Week in Review!
Last week was full of so much learning! We pushed forward from common nouns into proper nouns. Your first grader learned that proper nouns name a specific noun. This can be tricky for our friends so we started out with a simple sort.

By the end of the week, we were able to read and write proper nouns on our own! We proved we could do it by making some "yummy" Proper Noun Pizzas!

We are really starting to dig into our Personal Narrative Unit. We spent a lot of time in our small groups pinning down that one small moment for our upcoming book. 

After we locked down our topic and brainstormed a few details, we took a side-step to really focus on what it means to put a story in its correct sequence. This past week, your first grader had so much fun writing about a single, small moment from the loved story, "The Three Little Pigs." By the end of the week, he or she was in a group of 6 students who were responsible for sequencing their small moments and reading their story aloud to the class. Here's an example of one group's hard work!

"There were three little pigs. When they were big enough, they said goodbye to their mom."

"There were three little pigs. They were making their houses. One made it sticks. One made it straw. One made it bricks."

"Wolf blew down the hay house and it broke!"

"The wolf blew down the stick house. He wanted to eat the pigs."

"After, the first little pig and the second little pig was scared and ran off. They ran off to third little pigs house. And they were safe!"

"Once upon a time there were three little pigs. The wolf was trying to eat the three little pigs!"

We studied another fun story this week: The Day the Crayons Quit.

This book helped us study Character Traits! The first graders helped to complete this fun chart.

By the end of the week...we chose our favorite crayons and made our own crayon box to describe their character traits.

  

Can't wait to share some of the things we're already cooking up for this week :)

Have a wonderful Monday!

Oct. 5-Oct. 9

Specials

Monday - 4

Tuesday - 5

Wednesday - 6

Thursday - 1

Friday - 2

Upcoming Events

October 7 - Walk to School Day

October 16 - End of 1st Grading Period

October 18 - PTA 5K

October 20 - SBDM @ 5pm & PTA Meeting at 6:30

October 26-30 - Red Ribbon Week

October 30 - Report Cards Go Home

Kid-Friendly Objectives

I can write about a small moment.

I can identify and write proper nouns.

I can read and identify and create the sound sh makes.

I can describe characters and their traits.

I can write and discuss true number sentences.

I can explain the meaning of the equals sign. (=)

Spelling List

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs, Blue Dogs)

shop

ship

shut

shed

fish

push

shell

is

to

you

List B (Yellow Ducks)

shell

shirt

shark

push

flash

shake

shelf

an

which

she

Week in Review!

This past week was so short that I did not have a chance to take any pictures. I hope your Fall Break was useful and restful! I know mine was :)

I can't wait for another week with your first graders!