August 28-Sept. 1, 2017

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday -3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

*Reference the brochure you received on Welcome to Wellington Night to know what each day is for specials!*

Upcoming Events & Reminders
August 28 - September 29 - window for MAP testing
August 29 - 1st grade Curriculum Night 6pm in my classroom
September 4 - Labor Day. No School.
September 7 - PTA Ice Cream Social at Shillito Park 6-8pm!
September 14 - Evan's Orchard Field Trip!
September 18-22 - Book Fair and Grandparents Lunches (more info soon)
September 26 - KY Kids Day
October 5-6 - Fall Break
October 27 - School is now IN session

Library books are now due on the day of Library. That is always Day 1 for our Specials.

Weekly Standards
I can identify letter sounds.
I can blend onsets and rimes.
I can make 6, 7, 8, and 9 in different ways.
I can stretch words to make a sentence.
I can organize information into categories.
I can recall details in a story to answer questions.

Week in Review
We made it through a 4 day week! I hope you were able to enjoy the Solar Eclipse with your family this week.

Mr. Carney and I were able to enjoy it outside with Max! Max definitely made the glasses look cooler than we did :-P

We had a blast this week as we eased our way into our regular routines. The beginning of the year is a fun time but also a highly repetitive time. We are always working hard to remind our bodies of the procedures we have in place in a new room and a new grade. 

In first grade, we do Daily 5 (don't worry - I'll be able to update you on more of this at Curriculum Night this Tuesday, August 29 at 6pm in my classroom!)

Part of Daily 5 is being able to work independently for up to 15 minutes at a time. One of the choices students can make is Read to Self. We have built our stamina all the way to 9 minutes already!!! 

Another option during Daily 5 is "Work on Writing." During this time, kids get to choose from a huge variety of writing options to become better writers! We've also gotten our writing stamina up to 9 minutes :)

These authors take their writing SO seriously! I am so very proud :)

During Reading this week, we read some GREAT books:

We had a great conversation about what kindness is and how we can fix it when we make unkind choices.

We used this book:

to talk about rules and WHY we have them at school! 

Each student came up with their own rule that was the "most important."

We read:

and had great discussions about how we can be a friend, even when someone else isn't acting like one.

In Math, we worked hard on talking about how to SUBITIZE numbers. We want to become more fluent in recognizing numbers and breaking them apart. We played games with partners and even started to learn about our Math Tubs!

Sometimes - we also just have fun in first grade! We had a blast sharing our items with groups of friends. This helped us identify key details to make a word bank for every single friend. Our word bank was then used to help us write about our friend's item! Pretty soon - we'll be ready to take these skills into narrative writing! 

Here's to another great week!

Week of Aug. 22 - Aug. 29

Specials

Monday - 1 (Art)

Tuesday - 2 (STEM)

Wednesday - 3 (Technology)

Thursday - 4 (Library)

Friday - 5 (Music)

Upcoming Events & Reminders
August 24 - Our class will be taking the Reading portion of MAP at 8am on this date. Rest up on Tuesday night! :)
August 29 - 1st Grade Curriculum Night. 
September 5 - NO SCHOOL!

September 6 - PTA Family Night @ Chick Fil A in the mall
September 8 - Jon Agee Author Visit (You'll be receiving information regarding this in your blue folder)
September 14 - Field Trip to Evan's Orchard (More info soon!)
September 19-23 - Bookfair. Grandparents' Lunch will be during this week, too! Dates TBD
October 4 - PTA family Night @ Burger - Fi!

Useful Links
First Grade Curriculum Night: Click here to RSVP! :)

 Sign up for Remind texts with this link! 

Also, please consider completing the picture permission slip for me to include pictures of your child working hard in our classroom!

Wish List items:

*magnetic tape (it looks like a tape dispenser but the tape is magnetic!)

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can write to tell a story.
I can read, write, and identify short o words.
I can check my sentences using COPS.
I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
I can make a number in many ways.

Week in Review
What another fun week in first grade! This week, we did a little bit of review in phonics! We started off with a review of short a word families (-at, -an, -am, -ap, -ag). 

We passed posters around our tables in a relay to see who could come up with the most words!

We warmed up our storytelling muscles with Show and Share this week. Your first graders practiced Speaking and Listening skills like introducing themselves, telling a story with details, and asking and answering questions about the stories they heard.

After each story, we had the opportunity to write about something we remembered hearing...on whiteboards!

 We learned the first option for Daily 5 this week: Read to Self.

 We learned the three ways to read a book because we keep the same books in our boxes for a whole week.

We practiced Read to Self every day to build our stamina. Our goal is to make it to 15 minutes and we are already up to 4:30!

We practiced the importance of think time with some more Think, Pair, Share. We are becoming experts at taking turns to speak. 

We practiced subtilizing in math this week to become more fluent with number recognition. We practiced finding numbers within number patterns, seeing a number and adding 1 more, and seeing a number and adding 2 more.

These two were using the masterful technique of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to determine who goes first in the game...and who gets to write on the TABLE! 

 We celebrated a birthday girl with ice cream! :)

Our first grade vocabulary word was respect. We studied books like:

All of these texts helped us to have meaningful conversations about what is kindness and how we can show it to others. 

To help us gain a visual, I cut out a plain, simple heart. Everyone in the classroom had the opportunity to crumple, rip, stomp, do anything they want. Afterwards, I asked the class to help me make it look the way it did before we crumpled it. Obviously, we were unsuccessful. This is exactly what it is like in the classroom whenever others use mean or hateful language to another friend. We talked about how every time we use a mean word to another person, it causes a wrinkle in their heart. We can try to smooth it out and it will get a little bit better, but the damage will always be there. This is the heart we signed and hang in our classroom to remind us every day that "It's OK to be different."

Here are a few of our friends showing us which rule they believe is the most important at school!

Have a great week!!