Conferences are coming up soon!
I sent out a google doc with a sign-up sheet last week. Many of you have already signed up. Thank you!
If you have not signed up yet, please make sure to check out the times
available so we can meet to discuss your kiddo!
Here is the link to the sign-up sheet. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mzf3FItc4h6iogh1-Adsuk54BRiNMDpaXMDtSRvzl1o/edit
Thank you to everyone who purchased a 1st Grade
t-shirt for your child.
Picture Day: School
pictures will be taken on Wednesday, October 11. If you are going to purchase your child’s
photos, please make sure to send the envelope (with payment) back to school by
Wednesday morning!
Please leave everything in the homework bag when it is returned
on Friday morning. It makes changing
everything out much easier. Thank you!
Reminders:
Monday (10/9): Parent Conferences- No School for Students
Tuesday (10/10): No School
Wednesday (10/11): School Pictures
Library-
Check out Only. Please help your child remember to bring their books back!
Daily folders come
home. Remember to send them back every day!
No
Homework! Just read for 15 minutes!
Thursday (10/12): Read for 15
minutes!
Friday (10/13): Caraway Academies- 7:55 am.
This week in Writing Workshop...
We will continue working on our small moment stories. We will discuss how
writers narrow their topic down to make our stories more interesting. We will continue to
think about how we can organize our stories so that it makes sense to the
reader by using a beginning, middle and end. Students will begin using
capitalization at the beginning of a sentence and when using the pronoun 'I'. Students will also
begin to recognize when they should use end punctuation. In science and
social studies, we will record facts and observations in our various notebooks.
On Friday, we will reflect on our time in our Academy and then write about it.
This week in Math...
We will begin a new unit on Length, Measurement & Time. In this unit, we will discuss what we could
use to measure different objects and the proper way to measure them. We will use different non-standard units
(cubes, paperclips, crayons, popsicle sticks) to measure objects in the
classroom. We will discuss all of the
different ways you can measure an object, such as its length, width, height,
and weight.
You can help your child at home by letting them measure objects
around the house. Let them use spoons,
beans, pennies or toothpicks! They will have
so much fun!
This week in Reading Workshop...
We will continue thinking about different elements of fiction. We will discuss the
plot, setting and characters in a fiction story. The students will learn that making predictions
can help them to understand the story better.
When we make predictions as we read, we have to stop and think
about what is happening in the story and what the characters are doing, saying
and feeling. This allows the reader to
become more connected with the story and characters in order to gain a better
understanding. We will continue to respond
orally during partner reading, and will continue to build stamina during
independent reading time. We will be meeting in small groups to discuss various reading
strategies to increase accuracy, comprehension and fluency.
You can help your child at home by having them read to you or to
themselves for 10-15 minutes per night and by reading to them. This can be a very
rewarding part of yours and your child's day. Ask them to recall events from the
story and to talk about the characters' feelings and actions. Work on the 1st
Grade sight word list. You can find this list in the daily folder.
This week in Social Studies...
We will begin learning about how technology and inventions have changed
our lives and communities. We will think
about how technology has changed families, communication, transportation, and
work. We will also learn about how
different historical figures have helped to shape our community, state and
nation.
This week in Science...
We will learn about different forms of energy. The students will learn that there are 3
different forms of energy (heat, light & sound). We will identify a variety of sources of
heat, light and sound in the classroom and around the school. We will record our findings and observations
in our science notebook.
Technology…
If every student could bring in a set of headphones to keep in the
classroom, it would help out so much. It gets pretty loud when we all have the
sound on. Please make sure the
headphones are not the small ear buds.
They do not properly fit in the kiddos’ ears and they fall out
frequently causing a lot of frustration for the kiddo. Please send the headphones to school with
your child by next Wednesday (Oct. 11).
Thank you so much!
This week’s Life Skill is Organization! We will think about how
we can plan and implement that plan in an orderly way, and how we can keep
ourselves organized so we are ready for any situation. Our Tribe Circle
will focus on how we have been organized throughout the week!
That's all for now! Have a great week!
Dates to Remember:
Oct 9th- No school for students -Parent Teacher conferences
Oct 10th- No school for students
Oct 11th- School Pictures
Oct 19th- International Night
Oct 20th- Skate Night @ 6 pm
Oct 23-27th- Red Ribbon Week
Nov 20-24th- Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 15th- Field Trip to the Thinkery (more info to
come later!)
Dec 21st- Last day of classes
Dec 22-Jan 8th- Winter break
Jan 9th- Students return to School
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