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