10/22

 Hello Families!

We had an awesome week in First Grade!

Upcoming dates: 

Oct. 29th: Dress like your Favorite Book Character Day! Students can dress up for this event. No face paint, students will still need to wear a face mask to comply with Covid precautions. Please make sure your student's costume is school appropriate and they can still go to the bathroom independently. 

Nov.1 Early Release at 1:30pm

Nov. 22-26 Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 20-Jan 2 Winter Break

Reminders: Students need to bring a water bottle, 2 snacks, and their CHARGED computer each day. Also with chilly weather occurring please send your student with the appropriate outerwear. Please label all jackets, sweater, sweatshirts, hats, scarfs, gloves, etc 

Homework is due on Oct. 29th!

Academics:

Moral Focus: We are wrapping up our Respect unit next week. Respect is treating people, and things around you with care. 

Leader In Me: We are discussing Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. We have been focusing on how we want to end our day. Do we want to end our day full of knowledge or with an empty brain? Do we want to end the day with rewards or negative consequences? Once we know how we want to end the day then we can make decision and choices to get ourselves there.

Phonics: We have reviewed our short and long vowel sounds and we have now learned all our digraphs (sh, th, ch, wh, and ck). Next week we will look at trigraphs, which are three letters that make one sound, -tch and -dge, like pitch and judge.

Comprehension: We have spent the last few weeks identifying the problem in our stories and seeing our characters try to solve that problem. This coming week we will identify the solution in the stories. Students will also have to decipher if the solution was success or unsuccessful at solving the characters problem.

Writing: Students will create their final draft of their favorite party story. We will then move to a new prompt of sharing a time they were scared.

Math: We are moving right along into a new unit in Math. We will be really focusing on addition problems and what strategies work for your student best. This unit uses dominoes as a helpful tool.

Science: We will be continuing to talk about the planning process in engineering. We will have some upcoming experiments that will require us to plan ahead!