Indian Creek First Grade News
September 18 2017-September 23 2017
Headphones for Ipad
What are we learning?
We are working on creating stamina while reading to ourselves, reading to others and working on writing. We have gone over some strategies on reading for reading a book and how to hold and read 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 have finished reading our chapter book Flat Stanley. If you have not sent an addressed envelope with a stamp please do so by Monday September 18th.
We are sending home 5 sight words to be practiced-ON MONDAY. Your child will get List 1 of sight words for the week. It is a half sheet of 5 words. There is a QR code on the upper left hand side of the sheet. You will need a QR code reader downloaded from your app store to a cell phone or tablet. We have used QR Scan or Scan Life which are free APPS. When you scan the QR code it will take you to Vocabulary Spelling City. If you would like to use a computer. Go to http://www.spellingcity.com/DenisonT/
then click on Spelling and go to Tabitha Denison's List 1.
If you are uncomfortable having your child work on the internet with spelling words, you can cut the words out of the page and place on index cards with tape or glue. Then they will need to write a sentence for each word. A paper will be provide for this task. We will be checkin for mastery of these word once a week. We will let you know how they are progressing.
The words are: I , the, me, a, like
Social Studies- We will be working on Citizenship and how voting works. We are still having some children present their boxes this week.
Word Work-we are working on reviewing consonants and vowel. We are writing letter o,u,g, q,w,l, i,b
Math- we are working math routines and exploring numbers 0-10. During this exploration we will work on both addition and subtraction up to 10. We are starting intentional problem solving where we will be working on strategies to solve word problems. Student will be able to explore math tools. Student should be able to explain how they are solving the problem. We are working on learning math routines for math workshop. When the students have mastered the skill to work independently then the teacher can move into meeting with small groups of students. We will be sending home an IPS problem on Wednesday to work on. It will be due on THURSDAY.
Science-we are working on science tools and how our sense help us observe the world around us. We will be exploring sight, hearing, smell and touch. We are going to mention taste but will not be tasting anything in this segment for safety reasons.
School News and Events
September 22- Falcon Father's Game Night 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Meals and Snacks
Snacks
We will do snacks after we return from MAPS in the afternoon. Your child can have one snack that is on the healthy side. We would like it to be healthy-pretzels, goldfish, kixs cereal, Cheerios, granola, fruit, raisins and fruit leather. Please try to stay away from potato chips and other foods with negative food value.
WE ARE ALLERGY AWARE!
We have some students that have peanut, eggs, soy and strawberries allergies.
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