We had a wonderful second week of school with everyone getting into the groove of first grade! It is so wonderful as a teacher to watch these young ones want to quickly become independent and do things on their own. I hope you are seeing this at home too! I am loving it!

Here is peek at our 4 day school week:

Math: We will work in chapter 11 which is a review of patterning. Enjoy making more challenging patterns at home with your child as they play with legos and other manipulatives.

Language Arts: We will enjoy three Houghton Mifflin stories this week with all of them having the same focus: cause and effect/evaluation. We will also focus on the short i words and make word families to help us practice. Last week we spend a lot of time looking at the beginning, middle and end of stories and this week we will do the same but have fun making up our own endings to stories.

Word Wall Words: Each week I will introduce 5 new word wall words. This week's are
all, who, find, one, went. Making an at home word wall is a great idea. Add these words to the ones we already have on our Word Wall. The words are, at, as, and, a, are, because, for, from, have, his, in, I, is, it, like, my, of, on, play, see, said, she, to, this, that, they, the, want, was, with, you.

I appreciate all of the classroom supplies you have so generously donated and we are all set EXCEPT for ink for our HP Photosmart C4680 printer.

Thank you for labeling all of your child's clothes and lunch boxes. It helps your child locate his/her things easily.

Have a great weekend and remember to email me, if you haven't already, that you have read the blog and then I will be able to add your name to our email blast that I am making.

Cheers,
Mrs. Robinson