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Dearborn Public Schools

Newsletter for August 29th

on August 29, 2019

What We Did During Our Week:

WELCOME TO THE 2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR!

We have a fantastic class and are going to have an awesome year! I sent home a colorful welcome packet in your child’s blue folder for the 1st week of school. So, I’m not going to reiterate all of that information here. This newsletter will come out every Friday, and it will be full of information on what we did in school, and it will include lots of pictures!

This week we got to know one another. We played lots of games, went over our classroom expectations, went to a few specials (technology, art, music and gym). We had a welcome back assembly with Mr. Short and met lots of other friends outside on the playground.

Next week we will be getting our full schedule, and then I will let you know what day we have gym on.

Our class size is small compared to other classrooms so that we can allow for a lot of one-on-one and small group time. Within these groups is when we work at your child’s academic level.  At the end of the year, your child will certainly be ready for the next grade.

We read a lot of great back- to-school books, and talked about ways to be kind and include everyone in our classroom. We have started our alphabet review, with a specific focus on handwriting. This is something that all first grade classes do at the beginning of the year. Kindergartners will work at a much slower pace on alphabet when in small groups.

As the first graders had the afternoon all to ourselves…

We started daily 5 – and worked on read to self. They did an excellent job! First graders will begin word family review as well next week with their first spelling test being next Friday!  They have gotten their 1st grade composition notebooks, and we wrote about summer vacation! No longer do they have pictures in their notebooks, we have a strong emphasis on writing in 1st grade!

Summer Vacation Writing!
Practicing read to self!

Next week we hit the ground running and really start to get our curriculum going!

Of course, we will still take time to get to know one another, and our classroom but a lot more learning will begin next week. J Have a relaxing and long weekend!


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