Indian Creek First Grade News
October 30-November 3
Important Events
FALL FESTIVAL OCTOBER 27 -Come to a great evening of fun. 5:30-8:30
Red Ribbon Dress Up Day-October 31st
Real Heroes Say Boo to Drugs – Halloween – Dress like a hero!
Pumpkin Time!
Parent Teacher Conferences
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
As the first report card time approaches, teachers have sent letters home to meet with you about your child's progress. Each teacher has made an appointment calendar available - either electronically or via paper. Please remember your appointment time. We will send out reminders to help you.REPORT CARD
For report cards, LISD does electronic report cards. If you should desire a paper copy, you will need to go into SKYWARD and check the box for a paper report card. Teachers will not know if you have or have not checked the box in SKYWARD.
What are we learning?
We are working on creating stamina while reading to ourselves, reading to others and working on writing, doing poetry and working on technology. We have gone over some reading strategies for reading a book, and how to hold a book. These skills are needed as we move into a workshop environment. When the students have the skill to work independently then the teacher can move into meeting with small groups of students.
We are continuing on focusing on alphabetizing words and studying nouns. We are also working on sequencing stories. We have started regular reading groups. Your child should have reading books in a baggie to read on a nightly basis.
We will have a new list of sight words coming home on Monday. The words are : so, an, come, at, you. We will test on FRIDAY with Words Their Way Sorts.
Social Studies- We will be working on map skills. Students will need to know use a map key and how to draw a compass rose. With the State Fair being on a good way to help our learning is to get a map from the Fair and talk about how to navigate on it. This would be a great family lesson.
Word Work- We have made a small change. This will be our second week where students are grouped by color for their spelling group. They will visit another classroom with a group of students that are doing the same sort on MONDAY and TUESDAY. Then Wednesday and Thursday they will stay with their regular teacher to practice their sorts. On Friday, everyone will have their test for their sort with their spelling teacher. We will be giving any new sorts out this week on Monday. We are still learning how to work the sorts here at school. A note will be attached to the sort letting you know which teacher your child will meet with.
Here are video links showing how to do the sorts.
Written Sort https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6X5apoG1BqEV0JsMnRDMXpyX1E
Word Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqEVnRfampVTmxrN1U/view?usp=sharing
Picture Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqENWNKVUx3Mzg1a00/view?usp=sharing
Partner Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqERWVoMHRzSFNTV2s/view?usp=sharing
Blind Sort https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6X5apoG1BqENmdNOHotb0h5Wms/view?usp=sharing
Math- We are finishing our unit with exploring number 1-10. Students have mastered so much in a short period of time. In our next unit we will be learning about Base Ten-counting and skip counting, while continuing with our IPS questions. We will be sending home an IPS problem on Wednesday to work on. It will be due on THURSDAY.
Video for IPS Help
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Np__RM9ke7dFpENkpHdEN1Ylk/view?usp=sharing
Science - We will be learning about the physical properties of matter. We will be using the pumpkins that you will be sending in this week as well for investigations including weight, mass, and measurement.
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Ms. Denison
Office 469-713-5180
Email: DenisonT@LISD.net
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net