Skip to main content

October 1st

Hello,

Thank you to all the families that were able to make it to our first family night! I hope you found it to be helpful. This week there will be a survey sent out to give feedback. Thank you for your time with that!

This October students at New Directions will CREATE Kindness as they collect socks for Kid President’s Socktober sock drive.  Look for more information to come home with your child on October 4.  Check out the link below for more information on Socktober!
http://soulpancake.com/socktober/
We look forward to making a difference as a school!

This week is Homecoming week for Kaukauna! Here are the dress up days for the remainder of the week:
Monday: PJ/Comfy Day
Tuesday: Superhero Day
Wednesday: NDLC Wear Day
Thursday: Sports Team Day
Friday: Kaukauna Spirit Day

Upcoming Events:
10/3: Homecoming Parade
10/10: National Walk to School Day
10/11: Roller Skating Fun at Skate City
10/23: Family Night: Goodies, Games, and Grandparents
10/25-10/26: No School

Reading: In reading this week we are strengthening up our reading partnerships. We will give book introductions to our partners, help each other solve tough words (but not telling them what the word is!), doing something at the end of our books with our partner, and celebrate the end of our first unit by seeing what we can do and setting new goals for ourselves.

Writing: This week in writing we will teach that writers use words they know to spell new and challenging words.  We will also do some editing to our first stories of the year.  To end the week we will set new goals and fancy up a piece of writing.

Word Study: In word study we have been going over letter formation and letter sounds.  We introduce two new letters a day.   This week we will focus on these words in our reading and writing: the, I, to, a, is.

Math: In math this week we will begin our fact with minus one.  We will also start a new unit on addition and subtraction.  We will make sense of equations by drawing pictures and using tools to help us.  By the end of the week will move towards using circle drawings to represent equations.  We will also study the = sign this week. 

Social Studies: This week we will continue to learn about families. We will be working in centers that are focused on families.  They include reading books about families, looking at pictures from long ago and comparing to today, a technology center, and making a collage with pictures that represent your family. 

Have a great week!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

October 15-19

Hello, Wow! We have some busy weeks ahead for first grade! Thank you for your organization with paperwork that has come home. Here are a few links if you are able to help out for Fall Conferences: Fall 2018 Teacher Conference Meals Fall 2018 Book Fair Upcoming Events: 10/16: Field Trip Slip Due 10/19: Grandparent Event from 2-3 PM 10/23: Field Trip 10/23: Family Night: Goodies, Games, and Grandparents 10/25-10/26: No School 11/1: Veteran’s Day RSVP Due Reading: Have you heard?  We have been receiving notes from the Secret Service Detective Agency.  They need our help to become word detectives. We have received missions each day to help with our word solving strategies. This week we will use snap words to help us in our books. Students will ask themselves, “Does this mystery word remind me of another word I know?” and then think of similar snap word to help figure out the word. Here are some pictures teaching our stuffed animals our new strategies!...
Post a Comment
Read more

November 5-9

Hello, This Thursday and next Tuesday we will have our portfolio conferences. I am excited to share what students have been working on! We encourage the students to attend to give an opportunity to take pride in their work. Please let me know if you have any questions. Upcoming Events: 11/8: Fall Conferences 11/9: Funset Boulevard Wristband Sheet Due 11/13: Fall Conferences 11/16: Early Release for students 11/19: Veterans Event 11/21-23: No School Thanksgiving Break Reading: In reading this week we are concluding our word detective unit. We will learn about using word parts they know to read new words, learn about “unusual” words (contractions), and smooth out our reading. On Thursday we will celebrate the end of our unit with a special surprise from our detective agency. Then at the end of the week we will talk about reorganizing our library. Writing: This week in writing we are finishing up our How-To books.  We are adding introductions and conclusions.  We wi...
Post a Comment
Read more

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 sto...
Post a Comment
Read more