Last week we finished interviewing each student for our friend journals that we have been working on since the beginning of the school year. Every student has a poster hanging up in the room with some facts that were shared about them. We will refer to these posters all year when we are writing as there are so many great words that have been shared on the posters that we can use to write about. They will serve as wonderful resources when we are writing words that we are unsure of how to spell.
This week we will begin meeting in reading groups. Your child will practice reading their books in class daily and they will be expected to read them aloud at home each night. You will find your child's reading book in the plastic envelope in their binder. Please have your child RETURN their book and binder to school each day as they will receive a new book daily. There will also be a reading log that you will need to sign each night after they read their book aloud so that I know that they took the time to read it. Please support your child's efforts to become a better reader this year and encourage them to read to you nightly. The books that they will be bringing home will have already been read to me in class so the book should be fairly easy for them to read aloud to you at home each night
This will be a fun week of learning. We will continue to have the opportunity to listen to reading at school as one of our Daily 5 choices. I will send information home in the upcoming weeks regarding the sites that we are visiting for listen to reading. I want the students to get comfortable visiting the websites in class before I allow them to visit them at home. We will begin learning about Community Helpers which coincides nicely with 9/11. Your child will be learning about many first responder jobs by listening to books read aloud and watching short videos about them. As a class we will be making circle maps about these jobs so that students can use them when writing about them.
Math News from Miss Garcia
Happy Monday! As we head into another full week of school please remember to support your child’s learning by completing reading and math homework daily. Several students have not been completing their IXL assignments and this affects their “work ethic” grade on their report card. It is hard to believe that 1st Quarter ends on October 13th, which seems far away however, it will be here before we know it!
Mrs. Bloomfield and I are enjoying your first grade students. They are able to make real life connections with math concepts. They also enjoy working together and were all a little “shocked” when we completed a short assessment on how many strategies that they could use to model the number ‘13.’
Last week the first graders worked with number bonds. We focused on finding the whole number and introduced number bonds that displays only “whole, part” and the students must use strategies to find the missing part. It was a bit challenging however, hard work pays off and soon they will master this concept! Looking forward into this week we will continue this missing Part, Part, Whole concept along with counting on from any number to 100, comparing numbers and plan on having our Unit 1 assessment either Wednesday or Thursday.
Homework Week 5: September 12-15
Monday
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IXL B.2 addition sentences to 10
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Tuesday
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Worksheet pages 29&30
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Wednesday
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IXL A.14 100 Chart
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Thursday
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IXL C.1 Adding 1
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Mrs. Rowlett and Mrs. Garcia
