First Grade Happenings : Sept. 29th Weekly Update

Fall is finally here! I’m loving this cooler weather and it is definitely more comfortable in our classroom.

First Grade Homework

Our homework calendar will begin on Monday, October 5^th. Each day will have a math activity that you will be able to do at home that will only take a few minutes to complete. This work does not need to be returned to school but is just to keep students active in math and give families a peek into what we are doing at school. Also our word wall words for the week will be listed on the calendar. This year we will not be sending home word sorts for word study. We will be doing that work in the classroom. Please study the word wall words weekly with your child. Students can practice writing and spelling them correctly. They can also search for them in their books. We will assess the words on Friday in the form of a spelling test.

Upcoming events:

Oct. 5th-PSC Meeting 6:00 PM

Oct. 9th-Homecoming Parade.

Oct. 16th-Math Morning

Oct. 20th Grandparents and Goodies Family Night-Look for an email with more information soon.

Oct. 23 & 24-No School

Red Ribbon Week:

Red Ribbon Week is an alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention awareness campaign observed annually in October in the United States.

Tues. Oct. 27th....no sweat being drug free...wear sweats
Wed. Oct. 28th....Red Day
Thurs. Oct. 29th...drug free is double the fun....twinning
Fri. Oct. 30th...we're the ghosts. ..say BOO to drugs....wear orange and black!

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop: This week we will be learning how our partners can help each other become stronger readers. They can introduce their books to each other, help each other figure out tricky parts, and do something at the end of the book. When reading at home ask your child to give you an introduction to the book before they read it!

Writers' Workshop: We are still working on writing our small moment stories. We are working on using familiar words to spell new words, editing our stories for punctuation, and studying a book we know well, Night of the Veggie Monster, to notice what the author George McClements has tried that we can use in our own writing.

Math Workshop: We will finishing up our first unit on the Partners up to 10. We will work on fluency of our partners and take our unit one assessment.

Science: Science has been very exciting as we are working in our organisms unit! We have built aquariums and we will be observing snails and guppies and adding them this week. We have also build terrariums and planted seeds. Many of our seeds are beginning to sprout!

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Samantha