Happy Halloween Week!

We will be having our Halloween Parade at 8:15 Wed. morning so plan to be here with your cameras ready. Also, you should have gotten an email from our room mom telling you about our celebration here in the classroom starting at 11:30. Thanks in advance if you are bringing food, activities or just coming to help out. It will be a fun time for all! I can't wait to see all the fun costumes!

First grade students are really enjoying our new program. They were excited to see other friends from other classes. We worked on contractions, which is a concept that slowly children will understand.

We are starting in Chapter 10 this week in our Houghton Mifflin math books. This chapter is about data and graphs.

Word Wall Words

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We are having so much fun studying plants and seed while tending to our garden. Please help your child remember to bring in his/her mystery seed for our board. It is a fun way to learn more about plant and seeds.

Have a great week!

We are looking forward to a busy, fun week. 

 

We will enjoy two new Houghton Mifflin stories that focus on contractions and word endings. We will have lots of opportunities to write too this week! 

 

Choir started last week thanks to the support of the Parent Alliance and all of the fund raising you have supported already this year. Ask your child to tell you what they did in choir each Tuesday.

 

The Harvest Festival was a huge success and thank you to all those families who made it a success, fun and enjoyable for all!

 

We started RTI today and it went off without a hitch! The children were excited to see their other friends in their new groups. We have a fantastic first grade team with many years of teaching and experience along with a very supportive staff so it will be a great program for all! 

 

In math, we will continue with subtraction, (also keeping up on our addition skills) focusing on different strategies that can be used when subtracting.  Please follow along in Chapter 8 at home.  I'm seeing good progress with the timed math, so continue practicing math facts daily at home.

We have started learning our phonograms, letter combinations that can make one or more sounds. These are extremely helpful for your child as they learn to read and write better. Each day we will review the phonograms we have learned from the previous day so ask your child to tell you the sounds they learned during your nightly reading time. So far they have learned sh, th, and ee phonograms. 

We will continue our study of plants and seeds and enjoy taking care of our beautiful garden this week too. 

Our word wall words for this week are....more, many, two, too, some

Our phonograms for this week are....er, wh, ar, or

A big thank you parents for all the wonderful conversations surrounding your child this week. It was such a pleasure to meet you all and I love the way everyone is making such a quick adjustment to first grade.


Next week we will enjoy two new stores in our Houghton Mifflin book. Both stories will focus on making predictions before reading the story. We will also learn about nouns and verbs this week as well as learning about when to use an apostrophe s.

Our word wall words for this week are....every, first, why, did, had.

We will continue our lessons in nutrition and continue our discussions of what are good food choices.

We will start our study of seeds next week and work to get our garden ready for planting.

Subtraction and addition are our continued focus in math. The kids love using our flashcards so continue that at home too and watch their eyes light up!

Thank you so much for the books that you bought the class from the Rio Book Fair. We will enjoy them and think of your child for years to come!

We had a great week filled with lots of learning and for the first time, each student wrote his/her own story extension. Didn't you love reading the continued adventures of Jasper and his beanstalk? I was so impressed at their ability to write a story complete with a beginning, middle, and end.

We will focus on evaluating the stories we read looking at the topic, main idea, and details. We will also practice summarizing the stories we read.

In math this week, we will be start learning the concept of subtraction using Chapter 6. Now you can add subtraction flashcards to your daily home support with your child. 

We will continue our lessons in nutrition. The class is really starting to notice what they are eating and understanding how they can make better choices. We will start our unit about seasons too. Enjoy reading non fiction books at home about seasons too.

Remember next week is Conference Week so each day the students will be dismissed at 12:20. If you forgot your child's conference time please shoot me an email and ask.

Next week is our Rio Book Fair so please take the time to drop by the library and see the wonderful books that are for sale.