REMINDERS:
**Please remember we have SNACK TIME every day after our afternoon recess (1:45). Please encourage your child to pack a HEALTHY snack the night before or in the morning before leaving for school each day.
**LIBRARY on Wednesdays.
**We go to P.E. on C Days, so please remind your student to wear tennis shoes on C Days, Our specials schedule is: A Day = Art, B Day = Technology, C Day = P.E., D Day = Music
**We have a SPELLING TEST every Friday. This Friday our words are from the Week 1 List (a, can, funny, in, look).
**WEEKLY READING RECORD (WRR) due this Friday.
**Crestwood's fundraisers are due this Friday-Entertainment Books and Butter Braids.
**Another way to help our school:
Sam's Box Top Promotion: http://www5.samsclub.com/OMP/02_CLX_34127_BoxTops2012.aspx
Target on Facebook: https://apps.facebook.com/givewithtarget/?fb_source=search&ref=br_tf
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FIRST GRADER:
**Morning Meeting-We are learning each other's names, likes, dislikes, similarities and differences during our morning meeting times right now. We are doing a lot of activities that revolve around our names such as putting the girls' and boys' names in groups, counting syllables in names, and recognizing the vowels and consonants in our names, to name a few.
**Shared Reading-This week we are reading the story Annie, Bea, and Chi Chi Delores. It's about 3 characters and what they do at school each day and their activities always begin with a different letter of the alphabet. To reinforce letters and their sounds we are identifying other words beginning with each letter of the alphabet and we will think of a word that begins with the same letter as our first name and illustrate it.
**Writer's Workshop-We are learning about what writers do and setting up our expectations and procedures we must have during Writer's Workshop. We are also working on building our writing stamina.
**Math-We are learning important math vocabulary words (plus, equals, sum and in all). We are also practicing addition facts. We explored some of our math manipulatives at 4 different math stations-dice, connecting cubes, pattern blocks and dominoes.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FIRST GRADER:
**Morning Meeting-We are learning each other's names, likes, dislikes, similarities and differences during our morning meeting times right now. We are doing a lot of activities that revolve around our names such as putting the girls' and boys' names in groups, counting syllables in names, and recognizing the vowels and consonants in our names, to name a few.
**Shared Reading-This week we are reading the story Annie, Bea, and Chi Chi Delores. It's about 3 characters and what they do at school each day and their activities always begin with a different letter of the alphabet. To reinforce letters and their sounds we are identifying other words beginning with each letter of the alphabet and we will think of a word that begins with the same letter as our first name and illustrate it.
**Writer's Workshop-We are learning about what writers do and setting up our expectations and procedures we must have during Writer's Workshop. We are also working on building our writing stamina.
**Math-We are learning important math vocabulary words (plus, equals, sum and in all). We are also practicing addition facts. We explored some of our math manipulatives at 4 different math stations-dice, connecting cubes, pattern blocks and dominoes.
**Word Work-Our spelling words this week are: in, can, a, funny, look. We will practice our words by writing them on white boards and building them with play dough. We noticed that the word can is in the -an word family (man, ran, pan, tan...), look is in the -ook word family (took, book, crook...), and in is in the -in word family (pin, win, fin, spin...). Learning these spelling patterns is very important for learning our words, writing and reading. First Graders can also practice their spelling words at www.spellingcity.com. It's a lot of fun!
**Social Studies-We are learning about families, leaders, communities and our country.
I hope you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend and don't forget to READ!!
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