Sunday, October 25, 2020

Weekly Update 10/26-10/30

Hello to everyone!

This week’s announcements

*We are having a class Halloween celebration!. We will celebrate on Thursday (team 2) and Friday (team 1).  I am going to bring the movie snacks.  We are going to do a “reverse” type of trick or treat in class this year, so the only thing kids need to bring is one bag of their favorite Halloween candy or favorite Halloween party favor (spider rings, fake tattoos, stickers, Halloween pencils type of things).  We are going to make our own Halloween treat bags!  Kids will design their own bag. Then, we will drop our candies/trinkets into each other’s bags.  Dollar Tree has a lot of this stuff, as does Amazon!  Alsoplease provide enough for 24 students. Thank you!

With regard to dressing up

*Children are allowed to wear costumes under these conditions:

            *No masks that completely cover faces

*No toy weaponseven if they go with the costume.


*Have you signed up for parent conferences?  Click the link below to sign up.

Parent Conference Sign-Up


*Our Scholastic book orders are here! Team 2 was sent home with their books on Friday. Team 1. If you ordered books, your child will bring them home tomorrow (Monday).

 

*Just a reminderschool lunch is FREE until December!


What are we doing this week??? See below!

Literacy

*Good readers know the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

*Good readers can identify the problem and solution in a story.

*Good readers use context clues to help them understand a story.

Mathematics

*Fact Fluency through sums of 10

*Decomposing numbers 0-10

*Solution strategies to solve addition; “count on” strategy

*Continue practice strategies to solve change unknown problems

(missing addend :  eg.  ____ +4 = 7)

*Mid-module assessment

Word Study/Grammar

*short /o/ spelling list

*stretching and blending sounds

*/sh/ digraph

Unit (Social Studies and/or Science)

N/A

Writer’s Workshop

*Good writers use different tools to help them solve spelling problems.

*Good writers start their sentences in different ways.

*Good writers use C.U.P.S. to check over their sentences for capitalization, understanding, punctuation, and spelling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Weekly Update 10/12-10/16

 

Hello to everyone!

Before I give this week’s announcements, I want to share with you how PROUD I am of your children. Coming back to school after a six month hiatus is not easy. Being kindergarteners last year, your kids were still learning about what it means to be at school and be a learner. This may not sound important, but it is perhaps the most important thing they learn in the early grades. That is what Operation First Grade Bootcamp is about; laying a foundation for learning that will remain with them for the rest of their schooling years. And, they have worked so hard. They are giving me their absolute best every day. I am pushing them, knowing that we have so much work to do this year. They are rising to that challenge!  I appreciate them, and I appreciate you; setting a tone at home so when they get to school each day, they are ready. It makes such a difference, and I thank you for that!

 

This week’s announcements

*Picture Day is tomorrow! If you plan to purchase pictures, please have your child bring their picture purchase envelope with them to school tomorrow. The picture information is in your child’s folder.

*If you ordered books from Scholastic, the order has been placed! We should get our books within the next 10 days. If we are on red and they are delivered, I will drop them off at your house!  If you didn’t get a chance to order, no worries; I will place an order every month!

*This week we will begin spelling.  Your child’s first list and an information letter about spelling will come home this Wednesday. Spelling will include weekly “sound out” words as well as an individualized sight word list.

*If the CDH determines that we will go into the red category, I will email a mid-week update to give more information about how that will look for us. Luckily, our class is already fluent in using online tools, such as: Seesaw, Teams, Imagine Learning and I-Ready Math. That’s good news!

 

What are we doing this week??? See below!

Literacy

*Good readers know the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

*Good readers can identify the characters and settings in a story.

*Good readers use context clues to help them understand a story.

Mathematics

*Fact Fluency through sums of 10

*Decomposing numbers 0-10

*Addition story problems, including change unknown (missing addend i.e.  4 + ___= 7)

Word Study/Grammar

*Spelling/sight word program begins this week

*vowels v. consonants

*short /i/

Unit (Social Studies and/or Science)

N/A

Writer’s Workshop

*Introduction to writer’s workshop

*Good writers pick topics about things they know and love

*Good writers create illustrations that match their words.

*Good writers make a plan before they start to write

 

 

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Weekly Update, 10/5-10/9


Hello, families!

We had a fantastic week with everyone in our class together! Our class is full of friendly kids who are eager to learn.  I’m so excited that they are excited to be here at school.

Here are this week’s announcements

*Has your child told you about Operation First Grade Bootcamp?  During Bootcamp, we learn about what good learners do and how learners think, we learn how to solve friendship and learning problems at school, and we learn about the rules and routines that will help us be successful in school. Take a look at this year’s bootcampersclick link below!

Operation Bootcamp

*Thank you for helping your child remember to bring their O.W.L. folder to school each day. You may have noticed we added space for Blend-It Books to the folders. Blend-It Books are small books we read in class together. We use these to identify phonics patterns and to practice reading fluency. Each time we complete a Blend-It Book, children will bring home a copy of it. These are for them to practice at home. They do not need to be returned to school (they have a copy at school, too!)

*We will begin our spelling program on Wednesday, October 14th. More information will be sent home on this day.  Children will have weekly spelling tests, beginning Wednesday, October 21st.

*Children brought home Scholastic book order catalogs on Friday. If you are interested in ordering books, please complete your order by Friday, October 9th. When you order books, we get free books for our classroom, so thank you! Click the link below to order books. Our class code is: PB2JN

Order Scholastic Books Here!


Picture Forms were sent home on Friday!  Picture Day will be October 12th and 13th. Our class has not been assigned a specific day yet. When I know which day we are scheduled, I will let you know. 

*Important dates

Tuesday, November 3

Election Day/No school

Wednesday, November 4th

Parent-Teacher conferences.  There IS school on this day.

Thursday, November 5th

Parent-Teacher conference all day/evening.  There is NO SCHOOL on this day.

Friday, November 6th

No school