This week in First grade...

Week of: Sept. 10th – 14th Thank you for my beautiful Lilies! I've enjoyed them all week! The students were so sweet to me on my birthday! I can tell it's gonna be a great year! READING: We have been investing time in the past couple of weeks to learn about the procedures of Reading Workshop. Reading brings joy to our lives and in order to become strong readers we need to practice every day. Whether we are using the classroom library or the school library, we have discussed how to choose a good-fit book that matches our reading level and our interest. We have also learned that strong readers talk and think about the books that they read. This week as we continue to read independently for a little longer each day, we will share our favorite reading memories, our best- ever reading moments and times when reading felt good for us. We will also learn how to protect our classroom library by using the books carefully and responsibly. Our read alouds will include a variety of fiction and poetry. WRITING: This week in Writing Workshop, we will be learning about the importance of illustrations and how to make our illustrations match our words.  We will look at many different picture books and discuss how illustrations can enhance a story.  The students will have independent writing time where they will be conferencing with the teacher and working on what has been taught thus far. MATH: We will continue our unit on place value this week. Our focus will be to learn how to compare and order numbers up to 99. We will continue using our problem solving skills as we investigate different strategies to help us become problem solvers. The students are already sharing their thinking with the class and it has been so fun to watch them “teach” each other! SCIENCE: We will be starting our Matter and Energy Unit in Science this week. During this first week of this unit, we will learn about matter and its properties. This unit will include conducting experiments where we will predict the outcomes, illustrate and label what is happening and journal our observations. We are looking forward to having a lot of fun while we learn! IMPORTANT REMINDERS: *Parent Orientation is on Monday, September 10th at 6:30 followed by PTA meeting at 7:00.  *Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. *Please make sure you check your child’s Take Home Folder each night and initial the box to show me you saw the information. Thank you!