It has been a great 2 weeks!  THANK YOU so much to all of the parents who have helped with collating math home links, providing snacks, old socks, dry erase markers and other items for our class.  Your support is appreciated!

 

            A few reminders for this week:
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	<li>Please return the green take home folder EVERY day with your 1<sup>st</sup> grader.  Please initial the calendar inside the folder and assist your 1<sup>st</sup> grader in completing the nightly homework.</li>
	<li><strong>Traveling Book</strong> <strong>Bags </strong>should be <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">returned tomorrow</span></strong> so that you child can receive a new bag on Wednesday!</li>
	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline">OPEN HOUSE is this Wednesday evening at </span><span style="text-decoration: underline">7 pm</span><span style="text-decoration: underline">.  Please plan on attending.</span></li>
	<li>Reading logs should be returned EVERY Monday (on the bottom of the homework overview) in the green take-home folder.</li>
	<li>Lunch money needs to be placed in an envelope on Mondays with your child’s name and the days that they will be eating lunch for the ENTIRE week.  It makes the money collecting process much easier if I only have to collect money one day of the week.  Thank you for your help and consideration.</li>
	<li>If you have not returned the school forms, such as lunch, emergency, etc., please do so as soon as possible.</li>
	<li>The snack schedule for September asks that boys bring in snacks for the month of September- thank you to the families that have already contributed snacks for our class.</li>
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This week we will continue to reinforce routines and procedures with daily practice.  I will assess the students using the citywide DIBELS assessment for 1<sup>st</sup> grade.  The students will name the letters of the alphabet, as well as segmenting the sounds of one syllable words.  This week I will also continue to introduce the Reading Workshop by allowing students to practice “centers’ such as work on writing, and read to self.

This week we will finish up our author study on Kevin Henkes and begin working on the reading strategy making predictions, during read alouds.  We will read the books “Dexter Bexley”, “Hooway for Wodney Wat”, “Beware of the Frog”and “Wild, Wild Boars”.  We will learn the following poems and add them to our poetry journal: “The Wise Old Owl”, and “Way Down South”.  In Phonics we will work on recognizing rhymes, building words using the alphabet chart, hearing sounds in sequence and saying words slowly to predict letter sequence.

The students have really taken to the Writing Workshop and are moving right along.  I am so proud of everyone’s accomplishments.  This week we will work on telling the stories of our lives using illustrations, using pictures and words like famous authors, stretching and writing words, and spelling the best we can and then moving on.  The students will also start to work from the Handwriting without Tears program on capital letter formation.

In math this week we will practice working in small groups and writing the numbers 5 and 6.  We will explore several math tools this week such as base-ten blocks, pattern blocks and geoboards.  I will introduce the weather and temperature routines and the students will make a weather booklet.  We will continue with the FOSS science program this week and begin to sort solids using their properties.  In art we will look at how real artists use lines and practice combining lines ourselves. Have a super week!