8/20

 Happy Friday! 

Wow, what a week. It started with a flood and then a tornado! It's been crazy and everyone deserves a restful weekend! I am so proud of how our students handled all the chaos this week! 

We have had some new families join our classroom community this week! We are now at 28 students in our wonderful class! If you are new or just haven't filled out the survey please click HERE !

8/26/21: PICTURE DAY! Students are allowed to have a free dress day. Please be sure this is a school appropriate outfit! You can purchase school pictures online or from the order form sent home last Friday. If you plan on sending the physical form in please send it to school in your child's hand so they can hand it directly to me when they walk in. 

Computers: Student Chromebooks need to be charged EVERYNIGHT. We do use them throughout the week and it becomes difficult when students do not charge them.

Academics:

Moral Focus: We will be starting our Moral Focus Curriculum in September and we will be starting with the virtue of Wisdom. This means knowing the difference between right and wrong. If you want to start discussing this at home I am sure that would be helpful.

Leader In Me: We have been discussing how we want our classroom to operate. Students will get to create our classroom mission statement next week. This mission statement will be apart of our classroom culture and will reflect what we want to accomplish in First Grade.

Phonics: Students will continue to review short vowel sounds. This skill is very important to master before moving on to other skills. 

Reading Comprehension: Students will learn and review the parts of a book. Title, author, illustrator, spine, front and back, and page numbers. We will also start working on predictions. Predictions are smart guesses about what is going to happen next in the story.

Writing: As a class we will start working on an All About Our Classroom book. This will work on handwriting and sentence structure. 

Math: We are continuing to review some Kinder skills of counting 1-20 and adding and subtracting within 10. These are foundational skills that are important to the mathematical development of your student.

Social Studies: Students will explore what an exceptional Landmark student looks like, sounds like, and how they act. 

Homework: Read with your student for 20 minutes a day.