We had such a fabulous first week of school! I have enjoyed getting to know your children and I hope they had a positive experience learning new routines. This week we will continue to practice our arrival procedures, in the cafeteria, and in the classroom. The students are doing so well coming into the classroom, putting their backpacks away, putting their purple take home folder in their pocket and making their lunch choice before they choose a book to read.
This week we will continue to review concepts from Kindergarten including vowels and consonants. There will be a poem in your child's Take Home Folder for you to read with them and activities to reinforce what we've learned each day. Please keep track of the minutes you and your child read together on their weekly Reading Log. We will go over this at Open House on Tuesday night, September 1st, at 6:30pm.
During Reading Workshop we will practice different reading strategies as a class after I model the expectations. This week we will start with The Art Lesson by Tomie de Paola and will focus on Monitoring Comprehension. Your child will have a Reader's Response Notebook that they will use on a daily basis. During Writer's Workshop we will continue to set up our expectations and practice being independent thinkers. This week we will focus on how to get ideas for stories. We will make a list of ideas in our Writer's Notebook.
In math we have been working on collecting data and making graphs. We've discussed why graphs are important and what they tell us. This week we will be doing Quick Surveys to make class graphs about different things. We are going to end our week with a Quick Survey titled, Cone or Cup? What kind of Ice Cream do you like best? We will survey our classmates, make a tally chart and make a graph in our Mathematician's Notebook. I will use this activity to assess how well each student understood the topic.
In Social Studies we have learned about Citizenship. We discussed what a good citizen does and traits of a good citizen. This week we will learn about different citizens in our community from our Principal to our President.
Monday folders will be packed to the gills this week...Thanks Laura! They will have many things to sign and return including handbook forms. Please look through these items and return handbook forms by Friday, September 4th. I am also including Book Order fliers from Scholastic. I will be using the bonus points that I receive from your orders to purchase materials and books to use with your children in the classroom.
I look forward to seeing all of you on Tuesday night at 6:30pm for Open House!
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