Last night I was able to meet many of you at the first grade curriculum night! Thank you for coming to meet me and learn about first grade. If you were unable to attend, I sent home a copy of my presentation with your child today.
This week in first grade...
We have been reading the book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. We have used this book to locate periods at the end of a sentence. We have also been learning a reading strategy called "Go back and reread", when it doesn't make sense. If you child reads something and it is not right say "that didn't make sense, go back and think about the story. Reread from the start of the sentence." Always offer a strategy before telling your child the word. Encourage him or her to attempt to fix it on their own.
In reading workshop we are continuing to build stamina in our reading, we are up to 10 minutes of reading to ourselves and 8 minutes of reading to someone.
We have begun a fall writing assessing called the DWA today. Students are writing about a favorite animal. Their writing will be used to help me focus my lessons to meet the needs of the students. We will continue the assessment tomorrow.
Today in math we leaned how to make tally marks. We learned a poem to help us...
1,2,3,4
Number 5 shuts the door.
6,7,8,9
Number ten draws the line.
Tally marks can be used for counting and keeping score during a game, let your child practice tally marking at home.
In Social Studies tomorrow is Constitution Day. We will watch a video and learn about the Statue of Liberty.
We will have a home link tomorrow night. Please watch for it in your child's folder.
Thank you,
Mrs. Scheck
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