Reminders:
- Spelling Test on Friday over Week 2 words: and, up, see, come, one. Don't forget your child can go to www.spellingcity.com to help them practice their spelling words. You also received the first quarter spelling words a couple weeks ago.
- STAR of THE WEEK-We will begin our this next week. Please refer to your salmon colored Welcome Letter I enclosed in your Curriculum Night folder.
- Patriot Assembly on Wednesday, September 11th. @ 2:00. Please remind your child to wear red, white and blue to school on this day.
- Library on Wednesdays.
- If you haven't turned in your child's information about their Early Dismissal/Half Day Dismissal Schedule (purple, half sheet), please do so ASAP. Thank you!
A Week in the Life of your First Grader:
- Word Work-We are learning to read and spell our Week 2 words. We will also discuss the spelling patterns of words with a silent e at the end and words in the -ee family (see, fee, knee, Lee...).
- Shared Reading-We are reading the story One Red Rooster. This story emphasizes color words and number words. We highlighted these words in the story and participated in activities to reinforce color and number words.
- Writer's Workshop-Writing is hard work! Your first grader is learning how to stretch words they do not know how to spell. We have been talking about other strategies we can use when we do not know how to spell words in our stories. We can also "read the room" for words we want to spell or use other resources such as story books or our Word Power book we keep in our red Writing folder.
- Science-We began our science unit today on Weather. We discussed how the water cycle works.
Soon I will have information for you how to order books online from Scholastic Book Clubs. It's great because you acquire new books for home and we can earn new books for our classroom!
Happy Friday (almost)!!
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