The Week of October 28th

Halloween Week is always an exciting time in the life of a first grader!  This week we will compare many different Halloween stories and create ones of our own.  Our class will participate in the Pumpkins and Poetry event.  Check out our poems!  On Halloween our class will be marching  in the parade at 1:45 and then have a small party afterwards. Check out the Halloween rules on the school's main web page.

On Friday I sent home a family poster to create.  I would really like them in on Friday if possible.

Last week was our first spelling test.  Everyone got the regular words correct!!!  Many students also got all 3 bonus words right.  Keep up the Great Work!

Our dog friends visited us on Wednesday.  Everyone had a turn to read to one of the dogs.  Mr. and Mrs. Edkins will return on November 13th and 26th.

We will not be going to the library this week or next week.  Your child can decide if he/she wants to keep the book the whole time or return it to me.

Our spelling words for this week are: am, bad, had, fan, sad, can, find, all, look, book  Bonus Words are: family, brother, sister

The Week of October 21st

This week we will begin adding to our word wall.  Every two weeks 10 new words will be added until we have about 200 by the end of the year.  These are words that should be read immediately as sight words.  We will also begin having spelling words each week.  I will always post the spelling and new word wall words on the Blog as well as send a copy home.

Next Wednesday our dog friends will be visiting us.  Students will get a chance to read to them if they wish.  Please send back the permission slip back so your child can participate.

Our word wall words for the next two weeks are: come, down, away, no, will, all, are, find, make, play

Our spelling words are: at, cat, sat, ran, fan, man, will, no, dad, mom Bonus words are: ghost, owl, pumpkin.

The Week of October 15th

This will be a short but busy week!  We will be studying owls and bats and comparing them to other nocturnal creatures.  In math we will be starting unit 3.  Remember our fact test to 9 is on Thursday.
We will be finishing up Unit 1 of our Scott Foresman series and taking the unit test and finally we will continue to work on revising in Writer's Workshop.

Next week we will start adding to our wordwall every two weeks and we will begin with weekly spelling words.  (a note will go home this week)

The Week of October 7th

Another busy week in first grade! This is RESPECT week at OCS.  All the classes will have lessons on this topic.  Students can wear blue shirts on Monday to kick off the week.  Also on Friday is Blue and Yellow day for Down Syndrome Awareness.

We will be finishing up Unit 2 in our Everyday Math series and testing on addition facts to 8.  Keep practicing facts at home. 

In Writer's Workshop we will be continuing with the idea of revising our writing pieces to make them more interesting for the reader.

We will also be learning about fall and squirrels!