Hello Spectacular First Graders and Super 1st Grade Families!
***Webmail, our email server has not been working properly since Friday. I sent home a hardcopy version of the weekly email. I have been unable to receive/send emails all day. I apologize to those parents who have sent emails to me. I will respond to your emails as soon as it is back up and running. Thank you for your patience!
Welcome back from the long weekend! I hope everyone had a great time and enjoyed the extra day off. I was SO impressed with what a wonderful job the children did today (especially after being gone an extra day!). The kids were so focused and worked so hard. Way to go!!!
The children are really doing well working in centers. The centers for the week include:
1. Listening - The children listened to "A Bargain For Francis.” They completed a sequencing page to practice identifying what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the story.
2. Science - The children are working with texture words. There are eight cards with texture words (bumpy, smooth, rough, etc.) and the children need to find items in our room that match those textures.
3. Writing - The children are writing about the best birthday party ever. They get to pretend that they can plan their perfect birthday party; they write all the details down for their special party.
4. Math - The children are working with unifix cubes. They explore different ways to make 5 and then write the addition sentences down for their findings.
5. Reading - The children explored the bee quiet corner to learn how to find books at their “just right” level.
This week we are doing a social studies unit on mapping. Today we learned what maps are and how they help us. We went on a search of the room to find the map in our room! Kids - see if you can find a map at home! Tell someone at home how maps help us. Tomorrow we will be learning about the elements of a map and on Thursday and Friday we will be creating a class map.
In reading we are working on understanding and independently using reading strategies. We are continuing our work with sequencing.
We practiced our new spelling words. The children came home with Rainbow Words for homework and they are due tomorrow. This week we are working on the "ap" family. The children learned about homophones and what it means for words to be homophones (two or more words that sound the same, the words are spelled differently and the words mean different things). This week's "ap" family words include the homophones rap and wrap.
Today in math we did a house glyph. The kids are really getting great at following multi-step directions and correctly completing their glyphs. Today the children practiced collecting data from the glyphs in small groups. They did a great job working collaboratively!
Reminders and Information
1. Kids - please bring your homework folder to school every day. Remembering to bring your homework folder helps you follow our class rule of being responsible.
2. Library is on Monday. Kids - please remember to bring your books back!
3. Our zoo field trip is Friday, September 23. I have 5 parent volunteer spots. If you would like to come on the trip, please let me know! If I receive more than 5 responses, parent names will be drawn randomly.
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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