Sept. 29-Oct.3
Wow! September is almost over!! My favorite time of the year is here!! October is one of my favorite months in First grade! We have so many awesome learning opportunities planned! As we are wrapping up assessments this week we will begin homework! Each child will come home with a canvas bag. It will contain a note about homework, a reading log, one book on their individual instructional level, a comprehension exercise and math homework! Homework will come home on Mondays and will be due on Fridays.
Wow! September is almost over!! My favorite time of the year is here!! October is one of my favorite months in First grade! We have so many awesome learning opportunities planned! As we are wrapping up assessments this week we will begin homework! Each child will come home with a canvas bag. It will contain a note about homework, a reading log, one book on their individual instructional level, a comprehension exercise and math homework! Homework will come home on Mondays and will be due on Fridays.
We are so proud of Olivia C. for being our first LEAD Owl! 
Our featured Leader of the Week this week is Ashish! He demonstrates leadership on a daily basis! He helps his friends remember our classroom expectations and he always does his personal best! I'm so honored to have so many amazing boys and girls in my class!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Monday: First day of First grade Homework DUE Friday Tuesday, Sept. 30: Picture day! Please wear your most beautiful smile to school!
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Friday: Library Day! All library books are due by Friday morning at 8:00. Homework due.
Saturday, October 4th is the Bike Rodeo!
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING
This week we will learn a new comprehension strategy and that is making predictions. Reading is thinking. As we start to read a story, we will look at the picture on the front cover, read the title and try to guess what the story is about based on the title and the picture. When we read stories, we stop from time to time and predict what might happen next. Sometimes our predictions are correct and sometimes they are not. We will learn how to use all the clues in the story and things being said so far, to make the best prediction possible.
This week we will learn a new comprehension strategy and that is making predictions. Reading is thinking. As we start to read a story, we will look at the picture on the front cover, read the title and try to guess what the story is about based on the title and the picture. When we read stories, we stop from time to time and predict what might happen next. Sometimes our predictions are correct and sometimes they are not. We will learn how to use all the clues in the story and things being said so far, to make the best prediction possible.
We will continue writing stories about our lives. Last week we learned how to "zoom in" on one thing and write about a small moment in time, something in our life that happened over a small few minutes. This week, we will practice stretching one small moment across several lines or several pages. We will read stories or part of stories that have those moments in them and see how famous authors stretch a small moment over few pages.
MATH
Last week we explored the number line/number track and looked at specific numbers and pointed to "one more" or "one less". This week we will take that knowledge and move on to addition. The strategies that we work on is "Count On Addition Strategies for Basic Facts". It is essential that all students are able to successfully calculate both mentally and with paper and pencil their basic facts. Count On strategies include Count On 1 (+1 facts), Count on 2 (+2 facts) and Count on 0 (+0 facts). This week we will focus on Count On 1 and turn around strategy. If 12+1=13 then 1+12 is also 13. We will apply this Count On 1 strategy in problem solving.
This week in science we will learn about weather. Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere at a certain time. Temperature ,wind and precipitation are all parts of weather. There would be no weather without the sun. The sun's heat causes clouds, winds, and precipitation to form. We will learn about different kinds of weather such as sunny, warm, cold, calm,windy,rainy,icy and learn how to use a thermometer to measure temperature.
Last week we explored the number line/number track and looked at specific numbers and pointed to "one more" or "one less". This week we will take that knowledge and move on to addition. The strategies that we work on is "Count On Addition Strategies for Basic Facts". It is essential that all students are able to successfully calculate both mentally and with paper and pencil their basic facts. Count On strategies include Count On 1 (+1 facts), Count on 2 (+2 facts) and Count on 0 (+0 facts). This week we will focus on Count On 1 and turn around strategy. If 12+1=13 then 1+12 is also 13. We will apply this Count On 1 strategy in problem solving.
This week in science we will learn about weather. Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere at a certain time. Temperature ,wind and precipitation are all parts of weather. There would be no weather without the sun. The sun's heat causes clouds, winds, and precipitation to form. We will learn about different kinds of weather such as sunny, warm, cold, calm,windy,rainy,icy and learn how to use a thermometer to measure temperature.
THANK YOU! Thank you! THANK YOU!
Thank you, Tonyia Cone for stuffing the folders, and being willing to help in the classroom. Thank you to Evan Cone for coming in and listening to our budding authors! Thank you also to Tonyia, April Lambert and Melissa Castellani for helping us get geared up for Homeroom duties and parties! They had AMAZING ideas! Your helping hands and hearts are greatly appreciated!
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