We are going to have a great week in First grade! Please remember to send a magazine organizer with your child by Friday of this week if you have not already. We are going to begin reading groups soon and your child will need this for his or her books. There is a picture of the type of magazine organizer that your child will need in a previous post. Just scroll down to find it. I also have an example in my classroom.
During Language Enrichment this week we will be review vowels and consonants as well as learning about syllables! We will start to code words later in the week in our Language Enrichment booklet! We're learning fast!
In Reading workshop we are going to be reading a collection of big books this week that are based on fantasy stories. In first grade students have to distinguish between fantasy books (fiction) and real book (non-fiction). We are going to read The Napping House, Chicken Licken, Hattie and the Fox and The Day Jimmy's Boa ate the wash. We will learn how to summarize the stories we have read by drawing a picture and writing a sentence in our Reader's Response Notebooks. We will also talk about the order of the story, beginning, middle and end, to help us summarize.
In Writer's Workshop we are quickly building our stamina as young authors! The students are able to write and stay focused for 14 minutes! We celebrate our writing everyday! This week we will work on building stamina and writing about our experiences. We will also talk about how authors get ideas and make a list of how we can get ideas.
In math this week we will begin our Number sense unit. During this unit the students will learn to read and write numbers from 0-99, compare and order numbers to 99 and use concrete models to represent numbers to 99. We will work on these skills for the next two weeks. Our Mathematician's Notebooks will be coming home this weekend for your child to share with you. There will be a note in the baggie with the notebook for you to write something you notice about your child's learning.
In social studies we will be learning about the past present and future. Our vocabulary words for this unit are yesterday, today and tomorrow. We will be learning about the past, things that happen today and things that might happen in the future.
A note will come home in your child's Monday folder about President Obama's Speech to students on September 8th. We have recently discussed the leaders in our community. This will be a wonderful opportunity for students to see President Obama giving a speech. We will be viewing the speech on that day.
Upcoming events...
Elementary Early Release is Wednesday, September 16th
No Fuss Fundraiser PTA picnic is Thursday, September 17th at 6:30pm by the park playground
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