First Grade News October 2nd - October 6th

What We're Working on This Week:

First Grade Curriculum:

Language Arts 

This week in Language Arts we will continue our spelling review of short vowels. We will focus on words with the short e sound. We will also be learning how to add a topic sentence, three supporting details (with transition words like first, next, and last), and a concluding sentence to our writing! Everyone is doing great!! We will definitely get a journal entry or two on SeeSaw this week! Sorry we didn't quite get that far last week! We will also begin reading folktalkes, traditional tales, and fables. These are traditional and familiar stories that help us learn how to make text to self connections in our reading!

Social Studies

We will wrap up our study on citizenship and being a good citizen. We have learned a lot about what a citizen is and what our responsibilities are as citizens! Look for your child's "Good Citizen" Folder to come home at the end of the week! We have collecting all our work to send home in a Citizenship Showcase Collection!

Math

In math this week, we will continue learning all about place value. This week we will continue to focus on decomposing numbers. What that means is realizing that numbers can be built in different ways. We will continue to explore these concepts in stations, small group guided math, and playing math games. We will be uploading things to our SeeSaw accounts, so be on the lookout for great learning!

Science

This week in science we will be finishing out unit all about matter. We will end our unit by reviewing all of the vocabulary terms we have learned throughout the unit. We will get to play several games and complete several fun activities to solidify our learning! We are excited about how much we have learned all about solids and liquids! 

Important Dates:

Friday, October 6th - Fall Parent / Teacher Conference Day (no school for students)
1A / 1B Sign Up :  Click Here
1C / 1D Sign Up: Click Here

Monday, October 9th - Columbus Day -- No School!

Wednesday, October 18th - Picture Re-Takes

Friday, October 20th - Report Cards go Home! 

October 23 - October 27th - Red Ribbon Week

Friday, October 27th - Jack O Lantern Jog @ 12:30 (First Grade)

Extra, Extra!!

**Please click on the link above (under important dates) to sign up for a parent / teacher conferencewith your child's teachers. Conferences will be 10-15 minutes and will be with both teachers. We will fill you in on our beginning of the year assessments, some goals for your child, and answer any questions you might have! We know this is not a lot of time but if we do not finish we are happy to have you back in another day! We are so enjoying all of your sweet kids and we can't wait to meet with you to talk about them! :)