September 17th

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 and write a true small moment story, we will storytell and use partnerships to help us add details, and we will also start editing our pieces and look to see when we need to fix it up.

Math: We will discuss the plus one strategy this week.  In first grade we work on fluency of facts within ten.  We will also focus on the partners of numbers 8, 9, and 10.  We will continue to practice these in many ways throughout the year.

Social Studies:
This week we are starting a new social studies unit. We will be studying families. In this unit we will be studying our essential question: How are families the same and different?

As always if you have any questions please let me know!
-Samantha