Hello Everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and were able to enjoy this beautiful weather! I have to admit it was a little weird going to the pumpkin patch in 88 degree weather:) Here is all you need to know for the upcoming week...
Specials:
Monday: E Day (Music)
Tuesday: A Day (Art)
Wednesday: B Day (Technology)
Thursday: C Day (Drama)
Friday: D Day (P.E.)
Reminders and Updates:
October 19th and 20th NO SCHOOL for students
1. PLEASE send a water bottle with your child on Monday:)
2. We have gotten a great start on our sock collection for SOCKTOBER! Please send in a new pair of socks for us to give to those in need of warmth this winter. You can check out the Kid President video on Socktober at http://soulpancake.com/socktober/ Thank you!
3. Tuesday: The first grade team will have a team planning day on Tuesday. I will be in the building and checking in on the kiddos:)
4. Math: Students will be learning about "fact families" this week and discussing subtraction. Fact families are a set of three numbers that can be put together to make related addition and subtraction facts (for example: 3, 5, 8 can make 3 + 5 = 8, 5 + 3 = 8, 8 -3 = 5, 8 -5 = 3) . Fact families are important because they help students to know their Math facts in a "snap". Just like knowing sight words in reading is important , math facts are important to be able to do double and triple digit addition and multiplication. We will be starting a Math fact fluency challenge next week where kiddos will get two minutes to see how many facts they can get. We will do this every Friday until the end of the school year to see how much faster they can get:). We have been doing Math stations for two weeks now and the kiddos really have the hang of it! The four stations they do on a daily basis are...
* iPads- Frontrow math website and Promethan board math activities
* small group with Mrs. B.-we work at the groups individual Math level on the daily lesson
*small group with Ms. Hannah-students do review of Math concepts that students have struggled with
*Math journal-students have a daily math writing prompt that they must answer using their math strategies (number bond, addition sentence and/or subtraction sentence, and a statement sentence where they put the answer in writing and explain how they got their answer i.e. I knew that John had 12 pieces of candy because I _____. This last part is still the area that is hardest for kiddos to do.
5. Reading: Students will continue to discuss story elements (characters, setting, problem and solution) and how these elements help us to comprehend a story.
6. Writing: Students will begin to look at a piece of their writing and how they can revise it and then edit it to make it better. Last week the students learned how to use bold words and ellipses to add a dramatic affect to their pieces of writing and it was awesome! I was so proud of them for how they experimented with these writing techniques and really pushed themselves to take their writing to the next level.:)
7. OG (Orton Gillingham): Students will be learning about the "magic e". The "magic e" is used at the end of a word to prompt the vowel to say it's "name" (the long vowel sound). For example, came, tame, fame, etc.
8. Science: You may have heard that our goldfish have seen better days;) Unfortunately, we lost all of them; all of the 1st grade classrooms did:( Soooo, I have gotten new fish from Petsmart and we will try again. We will be looking at animal habitats this week and what animals need to survive.
9. REMEMBER THAT EVERY FRIDAY IS SPIRIT DAY!! HAVE YOUR KIDDO WEAR THEIR WESTERLY CREEK T-SHIRT!
10. October 21st will be picture retake day for any kiddos that missed picture day or for anyone who wants their kiddo to try the whole process again;)
I think that is all for now:) If you have any questions, please let me know. Have a great week!!
Mrs. Bryan-Doherty
Sunday, October 11, 2015
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