Happy Fall! It is finally starting to feel like fall outside and in our classroom. We are all very glad that it has started to cool down in school. Very exciting things are happening in science right now. Our seeds are growing quickly and we are anxiously awaiting our guppies, snails, pill bugs and beetles to add to our terrariums and aquariums.
Upcoming Events:
September 28: Wear Purple or NDLC Wear
September 28: Homecoming Parade Meet at 5:45 at Tanner
September 30: Wear Orange and Black Go Ghosts!
Reading: This week in reading we are introducing a few more strategies to solve tricky words. Readers can double check their reading and think what makes sense in the story and what word matches the letters on the page. They can also look at the vowels in the tricky word and try it two ways. It is important that we try both the long and short vowel sound. We will end the week with some partner work. We will work on giving book introductions and helping our partners solve tricky words without telling them but instead helping each other do the hard work.
Writing: First grade writers have been doing an amazing job bringing their stories to life! Stories have actions, talking and even feelings! This week we are working on using all we know about spelling to write new words in our writing. We’re using words we know (lunch from our schedule to write crunch) and writing words part by part (st-and-ing). We will also spend some time editing our writing for capitals and endmarks. At the end of the week we will have a mini celebration to celebrate the new strategies we are using in our writing!
Word Work: We are continuing to review our kindergarten word wall words as well as focusing on a “Student of the Day.” We are learning so much about each other!
Math: We are continuing to work on the partners of numbers up to 10. We are making posters for our classroom and making number books. The sooner that students know these partners the easier our next units will be for them. It is a first grade standard that students know these by the end of first grade. We will learn a few more dice and card games to help us practice and plan to take our unit test at the end of the week.
Content: First grade classrooms are brimming with life! We were so excited to observe the growth our seeds havw made over the weekend. It’s amazing.
We are keeping track of their growth in our plant journals. Seed will be coming home soon. We are also anxiously awaiting the arrival of our bess beetles and pill bugs to add to our terrariums. First graders are so brave when it comes to handling these insects!
As always if you have any questions, let me know!
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