The Penny War was a great success! We raised over $2000 for Timmy and the Romenesko family. Congrats to Ms. Schmalzer’s class for being the overall winner of the pizza party!
Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, October 18th-Grandparents and Goodies Family Night, 6:00-7:00 PM
Thursday, October 20th-Packer Wear
Red Ribbon Week Oct 24-Oct 26-During the week we will be joining many other schools and communities throughout the nation to celebrate RED RIBBON WEEK…a week dedicated to celebrating a healthy and drug free life!
All Kaukauna schools will be participating in various activities that promote drug free living. Students will participate in several dress-up days to raise awareness of the importance of living a drug free life! The elementary dress-up days are as follows:
Mon. Oct. 24th Wear "Red, White, and Blue”
…I Elect to be Drug Free!!
Tues. Oct. 25th Wear “Active Wear/Sweats”
…Stay active and be drug free!!
Wed. Oct. 26th….District Wide “RED DAY”
…Unite against drugs!!
Thursday, October 27 & Friday October 28th-No School for Students
November 10th & 15th-Portfolio Conferences-Look for more information to come home soon.
Reading: Yippee! We completed all of our word solving missions and have received our official “Super Secret Detective Agency” Word Detective Badges. We are becoming amazing word solvers! However, our work is not over. Now we are focusing on words we know in a snap to help us figure out words. These are our word wall words that we know from Kindergarten and the new ones we are learning in First Grade that are sent home on Mondays. We are working on reading the words we know in a snap, using those words to help us solve unknown words (I know and, so that can help me read stand), and noticing words we read again and again and turning them into snap words. We are up for the challenge in first grade!
Writing: We have started our How-To writing. First graders are experts in some many things! Thank you for returning your green folders. If you haven’t yet, whenever you get a chance to would be great. This week we will be focusing on acting out our how-tos with a partner, using transitional words in our writing (first, then, next, after, before, finally, last), using mentor texts to notice what other authors of how-tos do, picturing our steps to add the exact teaching words and adding warnings, tips and suggestions.
Word Work: Our word wall words this week are: me, on, look, he, was. We will be assessing these words on Friday. These are the ‘snap’ words we are using as word detectives. Some fun ways to practice them are writing them in shaving cream on cookie sheets, writing them in the air, clapping them as you spell them, or tracing over words with different color crayons or markers. We will also be spending time each week work on phonics skills specific to each student’s developmental level.
Math: This week in math we are focusing on subtraction equations. We are working on showing our equations and making a proof drawing. Students are using these to prove that their equation is true. We are also working to generate our own subtraction stories. We will end the week by relating addition and subtraction. An example of this is: 6+3=9, so I know that 9-6= 3.
Content: It was great to see so many families on Friday come in and check out our aquariums and terrariums. Students are loving watching the living organisms each and every day. This week we will be comparing the freshwater and woodland plants and animals noticing the similarities and differences.
As always if you have any questions, let me know!
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