Mrs. Ludtke's First Grade

Hello! Our first family night is tomorrow night.  We look forward to seeing many families there.  Dinner will begin at 5:30, followed by information sessions on how to help.  Picture Day is this Wednesday! Please return picture day forms to school by Wednesday or have the online form submitted. We will be taking our pictures Wednesday morning. If you have any old magazines (school appropriate :) at home that you are willing donate to our classroom for projects please send them in!  Thank you! Upcoming Events: 9/25: Family Night 9/26: Picture Day 10/10: National Walk to School Day 10/11: Roller Skating Fun at Skate City Reading: In reading we will continue to learn strategies to solve hard words.  We will double check our reading by asking does it look right? Does it sound right? We will encourage students to not give up when the word gets hard. Another strategy that we will introduce is trying it two ways with a vowel.  It is so important for them to realize that vowels m

Hello! Hello! We are learning our routines in first grade quickly and it has been fun getting to know everyone with student of the day.  If your child hasn’t brought home a paper bag yet, their day will be coming soon! Thank you for checking planners each night! Red family night forms went home last week and are due back on Wednesday. Here is our class schedule (Notice that library checkout is DAY 4)  Upcoming Events:  9/17-9/20: Safety Week 9/21: No School 9/25: Family Night 9/26: Picture Day 10/10: National Walk to School Day Reading: We will think about some of the bad habits we have developed such as mumbling across hard words, asking an adult to tell us, and skipping words. This week we will focus on developing good habits to tackle hard words.  Some ways to do this are to use the pictures when taking a sneak peek and look at all the parts of the words.  Writing: This week in writing we are continuing to write our small moment stories. We will focus in a

Happy Monday! Hello and welcome to the first blog post! This will be used as a communication tool to keep you updated on what we are doing in the classroom and upcoming events/reminders. Let me know at anytime if you have any questions or concerns! Here a few reminders: Please be sure to have the decorated blue folder returned because we are starting our writing unit. Also all paperwork that was sent home at open house or the first day of school needs to be returned. PLANNERS! Planners are coming home today for the first time!  Each day will write news, reminders, or homework in them.  I will check them each morning.  Please sign each night so that I know that you saw it.  This is also a great place to write short notes to me, such as pick up changes, doctor appointments, etc. Upcoming Events: 9/14: Dot Day: Wear Dots  9/17-9/20: Safety Week 9/21: No School 9/25: Family Night 9/26: Picture Day Reading: Last week we worked on setting up reading routines and expectation