Hello first grade families,
We had a great first week of school. I am excited about beginning our second week. Last week we developed our classroom community and learned all about our Tribes agreements. We started building stamina for our Daily 5 reading components. We shopped for books and began reading to self.
We wrote in our friend journals. Our focus is writing sentences with capitals, spaces, punctuation and proper letter formation. Students interviewed our helpers of the day and we used those answers to write at least 2 sentences about our friend.
This week we will continue building our reading stamina, introduce our second Daily 5 component which is Work on Writing and introduce choice into our Daily 5 block. We will continue to learn about our helpers and use complete sentences to write about them in "Our Friend Journals". The class will look more closely at the TRIBES agreements: Attentive listening and Mutual Respect.
On Wednesday after lunch each week we have our specials class. This quarter our specials class is Community Service with Mrs. Brubeck. We are learning about Kindness, and read The Kindness Poem. This poem will be in your child's binder for them to read to you.
REMINDERS
Dollar for Socks -- If your child would like to wear different colored socks with their uniform they can pay a dollar they will be allowed to wear socks of their choice for the quarter. This is a fundraiser for our school.
Pizza Day Thursday - If your child would like to eat pizza on Thursday you may purchase a quarter long pizza card for $27 or you may still get the daily pizza coupon.
Math Homework -- We will keep you updated weekly about your child's math homework on this blog. If your child brings a worksheet, please make sure it has your child's name on the top. Your child brought a homework sheet to complete over the weekend please help them remember to complete it and return it on Monday.
