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!