Thank you for supporting our PTA and helping them to reach
their goals for this school year. PTA supports many school activities for our
students, such as paying for their educational field trips and providing
financial resources for curriculum enrichment materials and programs. Your
membership and donations will go back right to your children by supporting and
enriching their learning experiences.
This Tuesday
(tomorrow) is our Library Day! We will
have check out, so please send books back!
This day might change after this week, so be on the lookout for that
notification. Mrs. Byrne’s class is
having some scheduling issues and we might need to help them out.
SCHOLASTIC ORDERS
If you are able to purchase books for your child from the
Scholastic flyers that were sent home last week, that is awesome! The more books our class buys, the more books
I can get for our classroom library! It
is easier for me if you order online at www.scholastic.com
and use the class code on the flyer. If
you don’t have the flyer anymore, the class code is HL96Y. You have until the
end of September to order books from the flyers.
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING
This week in reading we will talk about expectations for and practice “partner reading”. Reading with a
partner will help us to be a better reader, practice our fluency and mostly it
is lots of fun. We will learn how to sit closely to our reading partner, so our
elbows and knees touch. This close proximity will allow us to read with such
quiet voice that only our reading partner can hear us and not the rest of the
class. It would also allow both of us to see the words and the pictures.
We will learn how reading partners take turns choosing a book to read, and how
they can take turns reading a paragraph or page of the book.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Spicewood Springs public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book, as long as it is a good fit book for your child.
Spicewood Springs public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book, as long as it is a good fit book for your child.
WRITING
This week in writing we will continue working on our stories. The children have
done a great job illustrating and writing about some real events in their lives. We will learn how to
write in complete sentences. A complete sentence is a complete thought that tells who or
what the sentence is about, and what happened. It starts with a capital letter
and ends with a punctuation mark. We will also learn how to use our word
wall list to spell the first grade sight words correctly. Please refer to your
child's daily folder for a list of 100 first grade words. Some other skills
that we will be working on this week include saying the words slowly in order
to hear the beginning, the middle and the ending sounds in each word.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. When writing the letters of alphabet, we always start from the top to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. When writing their names, please encourage your child to practice writing his/her names neatly starting with a capital letter and then lowercase letters for the rest. If you need double lined paper at home, please let me know.
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. When writing the letters of alphabet, we always start from the top to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. When writing their names, please encourage your child to practice writing his/her names neatly starting with a capital letter and then lowercase letters for the rest. If you need double lined paper at home, please let me know.
MATH
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers, and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could stand for a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers, and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could stand for a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
SCIENCE
In science we will learn about properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore the objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
In science we will learn about properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore the objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
Thank you all for your help and support, trusting your
children with me, and being a partner in their education.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
*Tuesday folders come home. Please return the folders the next day.
*Tuesday folders come home. Please return the folders the next day.
*Snack: Please send a healthy snack with your child
every day.
*PE: We have PE on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday. Please make sure your kiddo is
wearing tennis shoes (for sure) on these days.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Sept. 15: Riata Roundup @ 6:00-7:00 pm
Sept. 28: Early Release Day. Dismissal @ 12:00
Oct. 5: Bike and Walk to School Day
Oct. 10: Columbus Day- No School
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Oct. 13: Science Night @ 6:00-8:00 pm
Oct. 22: Harvest Festival @ 4:00-7:00 pm
Oct. 26: Early Release Day. Dismissal @ 12:00
Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day Program @ 8:00 am
Nov. 21-25: Thanksgiving Break- No School
Nov. 30: Skate Night @ 6:00-8:00 pm
Dec. 1: Family Art Night @ 6:00-7:30 pm
Dec. 5-9: Book Fair
Dec. 8: International Festival @ 6:00-8:00pm
Dec. 15: Winter Parties/Last Day of 1st
Semester
Dec. 16-Jan 2: Winter Break
Jan. 3: 1st Day of 2nd Semester
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