Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. It was an exciting end to our week last week with all of our orange and black!
Oct. 14th-Yoga-Mrs. McEneany will be leading us in yoga at the end of the day. Wear comfy clothes! Pants under dresses are a good idea :)
Oct. 16th-Math Morning 7:30-8:15 AM Ryan Flessner, our math consultant from Butler, will be presenting information about math instruction.
Oct. 14th-Yoga-Mrs. McEneany will be leading us in yoga at the end of the day. Wear comfy clothes! Pants under dresses are a good idea :)
Oct. 16th-Math Morning 7:30-8:15 AM Ryan Flessner, our math consultant from Butler, will be presenting information about math instruction.
Oct. 20th-Grandparents and Goodies Family Night-Please RSVP if you haven't and are attending.
Oct. 23 & 24-No School Enjoy the long weekend!
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!
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 focusing on using specific word solving strategies when coming to tricky words. Some of the strategies we will use include: readers look closely at words by looking at chunks, rather than letter by letter, readers use blends (bl, cl, sp), diagraphs (ch, sh, th) and endings (ed, ing) when figuring out tricky words, and readers use word wall words as stepping stones when reading (over half of the words students encounter are typically the same 30ish high frequency words).
Writers' Workshop: Hopefully you had a chance to enjoy the small moment stories students brought home on Friday. First grade writers were very busy the first month of school! This week we are starting our How-To unit. How-to texts are procedural texts that teach readers how to do something. We will be writing lots of books that teach people how to do something. This week we will be focusing on thinking of topics, rehearsing and writing lots of teaching books. Students will be thinking of things they care about and how they could use this topic to teach someone how to do something. For example, if a writer cares about soccer he or she could teach a reader how to dribble the ball, how to kick a goal, how to do a throw-in, etc. You could help your child brainstorm ideas for what he or she could teach others by noticing activities in and outside of home!
Math Workshop: This week in math we will be focusing on the strategy of 'counting on' when solving addition equations. We will learn how mathematicians count on from the larger number and reinforce this strategy through math activities and story problems.
Science: Last week we added pill bugs and bess beetles to our terrariums. We have many brave first graders who couldn't wait to touch and hold our critters! This week we will be noticing what's happening in the aquariums and terrariums.
Word Study: We introduced 5 new word wall words today. The words are: he, she, can, play, to. We will be assessing these words on Friday. These are words we want students to be able to read and write automatically without having to think to sound them out.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
First Grade
New Directions Learning Community
Help spread the word!
New Directions Learning Community will be offering a free event
for senior citizens in the Fox Valley.
On Thursday November 5th from 8:30 – 9:15 am
seniors are welcome to visit our school.
Coffee and pastries will be served while they
learn about how school is different today than it was when they were young.
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