This week in First grade...

Sept. 26- 30

IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Monday: 
Tuesday: Picture day! 

               Library Day- All library books are due at 8:00 AM
               Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday.
Wednesday: Early Release Day.  Dismissal is at 12:00 PM.

Thursday: 
Friday: Optional Homework is due


GROWTH MINDSET
This week in growth mindset, we are going to practice how to give each other constructive criticism.  What is the best thing to say to each other in order to improve each other's work? How can we be kind yet help one another grow? We will learn how to start with something positive. Next, we'll say something that can be improved and then end our discussion with something positive again.  " I really like how your picture and your words match in this story, you could add more words to make your story more interesting, you are such a great story teller!" 


This week:

 READING

This week we will work on strategies that help us become a stronger reader. We will think about our reading "tool box" and how we already know things to do that will help us understand what we are reading!  We will think about using our fingers to track the words we are reading on a page.  We will remember that readers read pages from left to right.  We will practice sounding out words that may challenge us and using the pictures to give us clues!

WRITING

This week in Writer's Workshop we will begin the next stage of the writing process! We will begin to think about how writers make their stories "fancy".  We will add words to our story by rereading and adding details we may have forgotten.  We will call this revising.  Then we will add details to our pictures so our reader can see our whole story.  At the end of the week we will reflect on the stories we revised and begin talking about how writer's celebrate their stories.

MATH

We have using a number line/number track to find specific numbers and find one more or one less than a number.  This week, we will take that knowledge and apply it to addition. The strategies that we work on are called "Count On Addition Strategies for Basic Facts". It is essential that all students are able to successfully calculate basic facts mentally and with paper/pencil. Count On strategies include Count on 0 (+0 facts Count), On 1 (+1 facts), Count on 2 (+2 facts).  This week we will focus on Count On 0, define 0 on the number line, and make count-on 0 equations.  We will use the count on 0 strategy to 20.  We will learn that we can use this strategy to add numbers and add coins as well.

SCIENCES

This week we will be continuing our discussion on physical changes to matter.  We learned this past week, that adding heat and removing heat cause materials to change. We will be doing more experiments this week to observe those changes first hand!

Thank you to everyone who came in for our first week of volunteering! The students loved reading to you in the hallway and sharing their stories with you! We look forward to another great week!