1st Grade Beach Break
September 19, 2016
What a GREAT group of Kids!!
Cabana Talk
Welcome to a new week! It is hard to believe we have already completed four weeks of school!! Progress reports will be coming home on Tuesday. Just a reminder that this first progress report will only have a letter grade on each of the different content areas. There is a description of what each letter grade means on the progress report. All report cards and progress reports moving forward will have some content areas with a number grade while others will remain a letter grade.
Reminders
- Friday, September 30th is spirit day. Let's show our school spirit!!
- Progress reports will be going out on Tuesday, September 20th.
- Our first Chick-Fil-A spirit night is on Tuesday, September 20th.
- Wednesday, October 5th and Thursday, October 6th, the fire truck will be stopping by the school.
- Friday, October 7th is an early release day. School will dismiss at noon.
- Monday, October 10th, there is no school.
Looking at the Week Ahead
Reader's Workshop
- Using context clues
- Making Reading sound like talk
- Activating background knowledge
- Making predictions
Guided reading books (RED folder) will start coming home on Monday the 19th. Please enjoy this precious reading time with your child!
Writer's Workshop
- Planning our drawing and writing
- Learning how stories are organized
- Using details: people and places
- generating topics
Spelling
The students did well on their first test. I am so proud of their hard work!! We will be focusing on words with the short o sound. Here is our list for the week:
Pattern Words
- mom
- hop
- job
- got
- top
- God
- not
- fox
High-Frequency Words
- a
- and
Challenge Words
- does
- often
Science
We will complete our unit on mammals. We will begin a unit on insects and parts of a plant.
Math
We will be starting a new unit over the counting on strategy. We will begin with counting on by one's, then move on to counting on by two's. We will also use other manipulatives to show this process such as coins, dice, and dominos.
Bible
Week In Review
What is a mammal?
Social Studies
Reader's and Writer's Workshop
During our Reader's Workshop this week, I completed DRA testing. The students are now ready to bring home their RED (Read Every Day) folders. Be looking for that in their BEACH folders.
We have started working on establishing good writing habits. They are all doing so well already. I hear them remind each other daily about some of the new habits that we learned, such as skipping lines on our sloppy copies.