11/19

 Hello Families!

Wow, it was full and packed week! I hope everyone enjoys their break and the Thanksgiving festivities. I will be flying to see my family in Texas. We will spend the week camping at a lake! I will not be able to respond to emails while I am away.

Upcoming dates: 

Winter Break: Dec 18-Jan 3rd. Please email me if you plan on leaving for break early!

Reminders:

Students need to bring their computer each day and it needs to be charged.

2 snacks and a water bottle each day.

With cold weather on the horizon please make sure your student has the appropriate attire for outdoor recess. Please LABEL EVERYTHING.

Academics:

Phonics: We will start exploring multisyllable words. We will work with 2 syllable words that have two closed syllables like cac-tus, bed-room, etc.

Comprehension: We will continue to look at non fiction text features and how they help the reader understand more. 

Writing: We will be starting opinion writings! This is fun unit. Students will first learn the parts of an opinion paper and then we will begin to start writing!

Math: We are on to the next unit. We will be using our learned strategies on bigger numbers. We will focus on adding and subtracting within 25.

Social Studies: When we get back we will start looking at locations, land features, and cardinal directions.

11/12

Thank you so much for donating all the toilet paper rolls! We were able to make some fun Kazoos today for our Sound Unit in Science.

Also, thank you to those who signed up on the Thanksgiving sign up I sent earlier this week. If you could please send in the food items on Thursday or Friday that would be awesome. Nonfood items can come earlier than that if you have them ready! We will be making fun cornucopias to eat, and fun Thanksgiving mats and hats!

Homework is due next Friday (Nov.19)

Upcoming events: 

Thanksgiving Break: Nov. 22-26th

Winter Break: Dec.20-Jan. 3

MLK: Jan 17th

Reminders:

• Computers need to be charged every night!
• Water bottles and two snack every day!
• Label all jackets, hats, gloves, scarfs, etc.
• Masks are to be worn at school. Please review with your student the importance of this and please pack extras. Students were doing great for a while with the masks but I have been having to give more and more reminders lately.

Academics:

Phonics: We are going to continue to work on two sound blends like sl, st, bl, etc.

Comprehension: We will be exploring more features of non fiction texts. Students love this unit due to the amount of animal books we read!

Math: We will be continuing to strengthen our addition and subtraction strategies by learning various games. Students love our hands on math centers!

Science: We will be read various texts about sound and will also watch various informational videos about sound and how it works.

11/5

Can you believe it is already November? We are cruising right along in first grade.

 Upcoming events: 

Veteran's Day Assembly Nov. 11

Thanksgiving Break Nov.22-26

Academics:

Phonics: We are going to start exploring blends like bl, sl, st, cl, etc. 

Comprehension: We will be starting a non fiction unit next week. We will start by looking at parts of non fiction books: table of content, glossary, index, etc.

Math: We will be doing a one on one math assessment next week. The purpose of this assessment will be to monitor where your child's math strengths are. This will help me support your student in the areas that they need help in as well.

Science: We will be starting our sound and light unit! We are in need of toilet paper rolls for a fun activity we will be doing next Friday! We are going to explore how sound waves work and listen to several different drums.