Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2016

Specials
(Refer to your flipbook for a reference of what each day is)

Monday - 4

Tuesday - 5

Wednesday - 6

Thursday - 1

Friday - 2

Upcoming Events & Reminders
Homework needs to come back in the blue folder every day.
November 3 - PTA Family Night @ Sky Zone
November 8 - NO SCHOOL **CONFERENCE DAY**
November 9 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
November 10 - PTA Meeting 6:30PM
ELL Thanksgiving Dinner 5-7pm
November 18 - 1st Grading Period Student Recognitions (I will let you know if your child is receiving an award closer to time).
November 23-25 Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL
December 4 - PTA 5K
December 9th - PTA Winter Dance 6-8pm

Conference Sign-Ups!

Spelling List

We will begin differentiating spelling lists this week. Your student will know which list he/she is on.

LIST A (Green and Yellow Reading Groups)

math

shin

chin

quick

duck

LIST B (Orange and Blue Reading Groups)

shirt

whale

hatch

click

quack

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can support my opinion with two reasons.
I can read, write, and identify words with common digraphs.
I can understand relationships between words using shades of meaning.
I can tell the main idea of a story.
I can add doubles. (4 + 4)
I can use doubles plus one to help me add. (4 + 5 is the same as 4 + 4 + 1)

Week in Review
WOW what a week! Another fun week full of celebrations and we survived! (Let's face it - Mrs. Carney survived :-P) Standby for an insane amount of pictures from this week...

In reading this week, we moved away from just identifying words that helped us with our senses to identifying words that help us understand a character's feelings. 
We started by listing the feelings we are familiar with and the actions we might do when we have those feelings. We used that chart to help us analyze Alexander's feelings in this popular book:

The next day, we made a FUN chart to help us think about the sights, sounds, and feelings we might feel in a haunted house with this book:

The next day, we became authors who helped to create these images and wrote our own spooky haunted house stories.

We enjoyed all sorts of fun spirit days (that Mrs. Carney forgot to take a picture of). On Thursday, it was Slipper day!

In Math, we continued working on some crucial number sense skills: Commutative Property and balancing equations.

These girls were working on the "slash" strategy to determine if two equations were equal or unequal. Mean ol' Mrs. Carney aaaaaalways requires us to provide evidence for our answers. These girls were using their tens frames to prove their equations were equal or unequal. 

 Can you believe first graders can even explain how they know these aren't balanced? GEEZ!

We also explained how we could tell if number sentences were true or false.

(PS - we totally crushed our real deal (assessment) on this standard). 

We also LOVE making a huge mess on the carpet while we learn a new math tub.

Then...it was Friday.

 

We started the day with our Character Parade.

 We took turns sharing about our characters on the fancy document camera.

 Then it was time for the Junie B. Jamboree!

 "Make a scary face for your picture." :-P

 We ended our week with our Red Ribbon Assembly. Such a FUN presentation from this organization.

 We were only a little excited.

 Hailey was one of 16 kids at Wellington who won the chance to spray Mrs. Strange with silly string as part of a fundraiser reward!

Have a great week!!!