October 1-3, 2018

Specials

Monday - Technology

Tuesday - Library

Wednesday - Music

Thursday - NO SCHOOL

Friday - NO SCHOOL

Upcoming Events & Reminders
October 4&5 - Fall Break NO SCHOOL!
October 19 - Nonrotation day for specials and PTA Fall Festival!
November 2 - Sprout Celebration (More details to come)
November 6 - NO SCHOOL
November 9 - 1st 9 Week Student Recognitions 10AM (I will e-mail you at least one week prior to let you know if your student is receiving an award for these 9 weeks)

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with s and r blends.
I can ask and answer questions about details in a text.
I can write about an event.
I can correctly write lowercase letters.
I can correctly use exclamations, periods, and question marks.
I can sort and describe shapes by their attributes.
I can compose shapes.

Spelling Words
*We will not have a spelling test on these words until the Friday after Fall Break*
spill
spin
grab
grass
drop
drip

Sight Words
jump
move
run
two

Week in Review
Another great week in first grade! The first unit of Wonders lets us really spend time focusing on beginning comprehension strategies: retelling. Part of retelling is being able to identify key details (this lays the groundwork for summarizing in the future!) Using some of the texts from Wonders, our first graders have been working to pull out key details and use them to sequence and retell a story with their peers.

 Can you believe first graders can take notes about the books they're reading? :-D

Along with reading, we've been focusing on fluency! Fluency not only includes reading accuracy and rate but includes inflection. We've studied when to use exclamations and question marks (the difference between telling and asking) and are working to master being able to hear the difference! 

We read this hilarious story:

Then had some fun coming up with our own Pigeon quotes! We shared them to the class

and had to guess which punctuation fit at the end!

It brought on lots of laughs. :)

We were excited to start a new unit in math: Geometry! We've been exploring how to compose shapes with other shapes. The kids are loving it.

Of course, we also had fun at our Evan's Orchard Field Trip! Thanks to all of our volunteers who showed up and even toughed it through the rain. You guys make trips like this possible and FUN!

Have a FANTASTIC week!

September 24-28, 2018

Specials

Monday - Music

Tuesday - PE

Wednesday - Art

Thursday - STEM

Friday - Nonrotation Day

Upcoming Events & Reminders
September 27 - Field trip to Evan's Orchard
September 28 - Nonrotation Day for specials
October 4&5 - Fall Break NO SCHOOL!
October 19 - Nonrotation day for specials and PTA Fall Festival!
November 2 - Sprout Celebration (More details to come)
November 6 - NO SCHOOL
November 9 - 1st 9 Week Student Recognitions 10AM (I will e-mail you at least one week prior to let you know if your student is receiving an award for these 9 weeks)

Weekly Standards
I can read, write, and identify words with short o.
I can ask and answer questions about details in a text.
I can write about an event.
I can correctly write capital letters.
I can correctly use exclamations and question marks.
I can sort and describe shapes by their attributes.

Spelling Words
hot
lot
hog
log
hop
top

Sight Words
fun
make
they
too

Week in Review
Woo! What a wild week. We had Book Fair, Grandparent's Day, Teddy Bear Picnic, and 2 MAP tests in a single week! Thankfully, our upcoming week is back to normal (with the exception of our trip to the Orchard on Thursday. Yay!)

Here's a look back at some of our fun!

This was our first week being able to choose classroom jobs. Some of our jobs in the classroom are being in charge of our "Germ Juice"

 leading the Phonics Dance

leading Morning Meeting

and the coveted Teacher's Assistant (or "mini Carney" as the kids have been calling it)

It was also the first time we got to use our classroom iPads!

Your kids were LOVING the free app Sight Word Ninja:

On Grandparent's Day, we read this hilarious book:

Then we talked about what we would do with our grandparents!

While the other grades were celebrating their Grandparent Days, we got to have our own fun! 

We went to the Book Fair

and had our Teddy Bear Picnic!

Some of us left our teddy bears at school overnight and when we returned to school the next day, we discovered they had been up to some crazy things!

We ended our week with our fourth grade buddies. This upcoming week, we will be reading about friendships so we thought it was a great idea to make a book about our fourth grade friends!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! :)