What a soggy start to our week! We can tell fall is here! Last week we went on a nature walk to collect leaves to use as manipulatives after we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Elhert and did a problem solving activity with the story. Check the pictures from our nature walk. I also took the Flip camera on our nature walk so I will try to upload the things the kids said as we were gathering learning tools!
We had a great turn out for our first "Meet Me at the Movies" to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. We will be reading Fantastic Mr. Fox over the next couple of weeks and I will plan another "Meet Me at the Movies" so that we can watch that together too! It's so fun to see how excited the kids get to see each other outside of school!
Fun Things coming up...
October 24th- Caraway Carnival
I hope everyone is able to come! It's so much fun!
During the month of October our class will be thinking about how to give to those less fortunate in our community. Tomorrow (Monday) the kids will brainstorm an idea of what we, as first graders, can do to help others in our community. I will let you know what they decide. If you would like to volunteer to help with our giving project please let me know.
This week in Reader's Workshop...
Our theme is BATS! We will be reading and learning about bats! Take home readers will go home tomorrow with books that are on an instructional level for your child. So, they may need help reading aloud to you. Your child will also have a Reading Calendar and Communication Log along with poems (Cheetahs, Horses, and Sharks only) and a Reading log for each week in October. There are instructions printed on the calendar for you. Each group will be working on different strategies to help us read and comprehend. The at home strategies we will work on this month are Making Connections and Analyzing.
This week in Writer's Workshop...
We will continue to write stories using our imaginations. I will begin writing conferences and we will also begin publishing our masterpieces as the students finish stories!
This week in Language Enrichment...
We will continue to build on our concepts of syllables and add more suffixes to our deck. We will continue to code words with short and long vowels and practice "tapping out" words. Ask your child to explain to you how to tape out a word. This is a multi-sensory approach to sounding out words that helps children slow down and use multiple parts of their brain to read words.
This week in Math...
We will continue our unit on Addition and Subtraction in Problem Solving situations. We will read books like Sixteen Little Pumpkins and books by Stuart J. Murphy. I will be monitoring how your child solves problems and how they develop strategies.
This week in Science/Social Studies...
We will wrap up our Science unit on Types of Change by making new crayons. We will melt old crayons and pour the liquid into molds to make new crayons. We will record our thinking and the steps we used in our Science Notebooks.
We will begin a new unit in Social Studies in which we will study different types of maps and globes. We will also make new maps and learn about places around the world as well as landforms and physical characteristics of different locations.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Caballero
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