Week of September 19-23

Hello wonderful families!

It was so great to meet so many of you on Monday, September 19th for curriculum night.
I have sent home the information that was shared that night with students whose parents were not able to attend. Please check you child's backpack for a green folder containing information to be kept at home. Many students were excited to go on our math website and play "Monster Squeeze".  This fun game is great practice to reinforce number sense. If you have not watched your child play, I recommend trying it out.

This week in Reading workshop we are reading the book It's Mine By Leo Lionni. The book is about three quarrelsome frogs that have to learn how to share. We read the book and discussed the vocabulary word "quarrelsome." we will write about the story this week and keep going back to the theme of sharing and being kind.

Our Daily five has been progressing nicely this week. We have been reading to self for 14 minutes and reading to someone for 13. I have been able to assess students and am making progress toward reading groups!

The first set of popcorn words (I, a, am, at, an, as, and) came home on Monday. Students need to practice the words at home every week by cutting them out, writing and reading the words. Please practice at home. Next week a new list will be coming. Keep the words at home in the popcorn back and continue to go back and practice until the words are well known.

In math this week we have been working hard on adding one more or subtracting one less. We will learn the game "Top it" which is a lot like "War."  We will work on comparing numbers when we play. Thursday we will begin to explore using data in a Tally Chart.

In writing, we have been working on using writer's tools. I have shown the students how to put a date stamp on their paper and to use the stapler. We have practice saying words slowly and writing the sounds we hear.

We are off to a great start in Room 109! I am so happy to see how much the students are picking up the new routines in First Grade.

Thank you and have a great night!
Mrs. Scheck