Wednesday, November 14, 2012

DAILY REMINDERS:

• No homework tonight due to early dismissal today.  Please remember to read, practice spelling words, and addition flashcards.
• We will continue Show and Tell tomorrow for those students who did not have time today or remember to bring their show and tell item to school today.  I forgot to remind my class about Show and Tell last night, so I have extended it to tomorrow.
• Jingles for Jammies on Friday.  Your first grader may wear their jammies to school and a coin donation is appreciated for Support-A-Family.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FIRST GRADER:

• Morning Meeting:  After our usual morning meeting routine, we wrote a thank you letter together to Mrs. Jardon for teaching us about the Lewis and Clark expedition.  Your first graders are really good letter writers!  I was very pleased with the thank you letter they composed together as a class.  Tomorrow they will draw pictures for Mrs. Jardon.
• Writing:  We will  be making a turkey this week, and we brainstormed the things we are thankful for.  I modeled how to organize our ideas for writing on a web, and then our students began working on their own web about the things they are thankful for.  Tomorrow they will organize their web ideas into a story.
• Daily 5 Centers/Guided Reading:  We have several different activity choices in the Word Work center and Work on Writing center which include building weekly spelling words, sorting words in different word families and building words with word family cards and beginning consonant letters, writing in handwriting books, writing in our first grade journal, listing 15 things that remind us of Thanksgiving, a sequencing activity, and writing an answer to an open-ended question about a picture.  In our reading groups we continue to work on our reading strategies, word work, writing in journals, reading with expression and reading fluently, and thinking about what we are reading in order to comprehend the stories we read.

We did not have time for math or social studies today due to Early Dismissal.