October 3-5, 2016

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

Monday - 6

Tuesday - 1

Wednesday - 2

Thursday - No School

Friday - No school

Upcoming Events & Reminders
Homework needs to come back in the blue folder every day.
October 4 - PTA family Night @ Burger - Fi!
October 5 - Walk to School Day AND Pumpkin Investigation (Please let me know if you might be available on this afternoon. I'll send more information soon!)
October 6-7 - Fall Break NO SCHOOL!
October 13 - PTA Meeting 6:30 PM
October 24 - 28 - Red Ribbon Week
October 28 - Report Cards go home
November 3 - PTA Family Night @ Sky Zone
November 8 - NO SCHOOL
November 9 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
November 10 - PTA Meeting 6:30PM
November 23-25 Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL
December 2nd - PTA Winter Dance 6-8pm
December 3 - PTA 5K

Spelling List

none this week :)

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can tell the difference between a fact and an opinion.
I can read, write, and identify words with the wh digraph.
I can identify and use adjectives.
I can retell a familiar text.
I can solve missing addend number sentences.

Week in Review
Here is a fun look back at our week! We busted our tails this past week so we are certainly deserving of our upcoming Fall Break!

Our book box came in this week! We had SO much fun busting it open and revealing the fun books that our friends ordered as well as the SIXTEEN FREE BOOKS YOU HELPED US EARN!!!!

 We have had so much fun enjoying these books this week. Thank you thank you thank you!

Because of you, again, we were able to have so much fun exploring adjectives with POPCORN!

We had a lot of fun reviewing for our word problem "real deal" this week (which we CRUSHED by the way.) We became slightly obsessed with this fun word problem board game.

 We also had a little healthy competition with boys vs. girls...girls won!

By Friday, we were ready for some fun, collaborative math: Building the 100s chart! We had some meaningful conversations about the patterns that we noticed when putting the numbers in order.

 Look at that collaboration!

 So proud!!!!

We practiced telling the difference between SH and TH words.

 We analyzed characters by their character traits.

 We finished our Personal Narrative BOOKS! We were so proud to finally be able to share them with our friends.

We finally introduced ourselves to the wonderful world of stamps for Word Work.

 We made some funky pumpkins with our 4th grade book buddies!

 It can get a little messy...

Our pumpkin pile :)

Have a great week!!

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!