This week in First Grade...

September 27th- October 1

Reminders:
- Wednesday, September 29th School Pictures
-This week is Education Go Get It Week!
Today- Caraway (school) shirt
Tuesday- wear sneakers or tennis shoes
Wednesday- wear a collegiate hat
Thursday-
Friday-wear a collegiate shirt

Principal's Pride Student of the week is Sergio!!
Thank you for being patient and kind with your classmates.

Monday folder stuffer (October)- Giannina Lawhon
Tuesday parent: Mr. Field

This week in Language Arts...

In Reading workshop we are going to learn our small group routines and learn how to get information from books. A new book will come home Monday- Thursday. Each child needs to be responsible for their book and baggie. They will bring it back each day. If they do not bring it to school they will not recieve a new book, so it's very important they bring it each day!

*Our Library Day is Friday! Please help your child remember their books!

In Writer's Workshop we are learning to stretch words as we sound them out to write and reread. We had our first Author's Chair sharing on Friday. Each student choose a story and read it to the class. I wrote an encouraging comment for each student on their story and it's in their Monday folders. We will do this until we learn to publish.

In Word Work this week we are studying the sound short o. We have started practicing our letters and sounds with our Language Deck. This is the beginning of our word study practice. I have completed a phonetic spelling inventory for each students and we will begin working on word sorts during small groups.

Rule: The (o) sound at the beginning or middle of a word is spelled o as in octopus.

Spelling Words: on, not, got, box, hot, top

Challenge words: resource, soil

Sight word vocabulary: at, as, jump, but, they

In Math we will continue to work on place value and discuss numbers. Today we learned to play a game called Guess My Number. I give two clues, such as "My number is more than 1 and less than 19." Then the students ask me questions using the vocabulary greater than and less than. They really enjoyed this game. Play it at home using a number line! We will work on identifying larger numbers and discussing greater then, less than and equal to with numbers to 100.

This week in Science we will continue our study on Natural Resources and Rocks. We will be measuring and weighing our rocks as we compare them.

Show and Tell on Friday: Free choice. Bring something that fits in your backpack.

Have a cool week!
Mrs. Caballero