This week in First Grade...

What a fun carnival! Thanks to all of the PTA parents and volunteers for putting on a great carnival! Lyla's favorite thing was the "Choo-choo" in the spooky forest! Thanks also to everyone who donated items for the carnival!

Last week was the last week of the first nine weeks! I just can't believe it! Report cards will come home on Monday, November 2nd. They are new and improved so please read the letter that goes with the report card before you review your child's report card.

We are so excited to have our first Parent Friday Reader this Friday. Thanks Mrs. Merhar! We can't wait to share a story with you!

This week in Reading Workshop...
We will be studying pumpkins and working on reading from different genres to learn new things. We will be reading from fiction books, non-fiction and magazine articles! At the end of the week we will make pumpkin patch of facts we learned about pumpkins during the week! Take home readers went home today. If your child's "I'm learning to..." sheet does not have anything new to work on please continue to work on the previous skill that is on the sheet.
We will also be doing some Shared readings this week with different Halloween stories. Today we read A Dark, Dark Tale and then wrote our own version of the story as a class by each adding a sentence to our story. We illustrated our sentence and wrote it in our best handwriting. We will put them all together to make a class book.

In Writer's Workshop...
We finished learning about ideas and made our ideas chart last week. We began our new unit on Organization last week by reading different versions of The Three Little Pigs. We also began our own version of the three little pigs and drew a picture plan with a beginning, middle and end. We will be publishing our stories at the end of this week to share in the Author's chair.

Vocabulary words: out, up, are, will, look
Spelling words: make, game, take, mame, came, gave
Rule: long a sound
Challenge words: pumpkin, estimate

In math...
We are continuing our unit on Patterns and Number Sense this week. Today we made paper chains that had different number patterns on them that the students made with their table group. We will discuss place value and solve problems that involve putting numbers in order and determining a pattern. There is optional math homework in the Monday folder.

In science...
We are discussing properties to prepare for our unit on Rocks and Natural Resources. We will do a fun activity on Friday called Creepy Feelings!

Have a great week!