What We Did During Our Week:
We continue to get to know one another and our classroom rules. We read a lot of great books. “Pigeon has to go to school!”, and then they wrote about what they want to learn about this school year. We also read “Wemberly Worried”. We talked about how it’s okay to feel sad or worried sometimes and then we made a classroom book where they wrote about something they can do if they’re feeling sad or worried.
We spent a lot of time on reading to self. We discussed that there are three ways to read a book…
- Read the pictures
- Read the words
- Retell the story
See pictures below of us reading!
In the afternoon we have been doing hands-on activities like building with gears and blocks, manipulating abcs and sight words, and completing word puzzles while I have been testing everyone one-on-one.
We did complete one test of NWEA. This is a computer based test that students take 3 times a year in both reading and math. We can look at your child’s score during fall conferences. Next week we will take the math portion of the test.
Our math materials have arrived and we will be beginning math next week. Look for a homework book that will be coming home on Monday. We are starting lesson 1 on Monday, and will be doing a lesson a day. You should complete lesson 1 homework on Monday, and continue to do a lesson a day at home as well. These are practice books that stay at home. They do not need to be turned in to school, just keep up with the work at home. 🙂
We had an all-school assembly on Friday about “being buddies, not bullies”, and had some great discussion afterwards about how to be a friend or help others if they need it.
First grade spelling words for next week:
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, Sep 17 – Open House 6-7:30pm
Wednesday, Sep 25 – late start
Thursday, Sep 26 – KINDER parent meeting at Haigh 8-8:30am
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