Ahoy students and families! We are coming to the end of the 1st quarter of our First Grade learning adventure together! This Friday is a half day for students. I will be working on report cards.

All completed (Blue folder) September activities packets, and (Yellow folder) Benchmark packets for Unit 1, (Weeks 1, 2 and 3) will be due this Friday. You may send the completed work with your child to learning labs, or bring them into the office and put them into my mailbox. All spelling test scores (1-4) will need to be entered into Schoology or they will be zeros and all discussion questions on Schoology should all be answered by Friday. Two students still need to take the Mid Module 1 test this week. The October zoom and activities packet will not be due until next week since October ends on the weekend.

We are beginning Unit 2 in Benchmark this week. This week is week 1 found in the Red folder. Continue working each day on Zearn, I-Ready and Epic Books. I am monitoring student progress there as well.

Halloween Friday

This Friday, students may wear their Halloween costumes during our Zoom lessons. Please no masks and only school appropriate costumes please.

Schedule for this week: October 26-30

Learning Labs

My learning labs are still happening! Our district canceled them last week based on the fact that Covid-19 numbers were beginning to increase in Wayne County, however, they have given teachers the option to continue working with 3 students at a time taking all of the precautions of social distancing, sanitizing and mask wearing as long as there are no outbreaks in our school environment. Without our in person labs, students will be required to continue virtual learning on zoom during the afternoon lab times. I have chosen to continue our learning labs in person at this time. If any parent is uncomfortable with this, please let me know. If you child is not feeling well, please do not send them to the learning labs, but please let me know. If we have any incidences of the disease, I will change these plans immediately and we will go virtual labs in the afternoon. This week, students will be decorating a pumpkin, and making a haunted house scene with stickers. Then they will be writing a narrative story about their scene. I will be reading with them as well. Please bring any completed work for me to grade for report cards and all student reading books in their bookbags to learning labs. No chrome books please!

Epic Books

Over 1769 books have been read on Epic books by my students since we began school! This has totaled over 186 hours of reading! I am so proud of my students! Remember, if you want to read into the evening (after 4:00pm) on Epic books you need to respond to the email invite that I sent to you. This will allow you to read a selection of books for free in the evening. Epic books is usually only free during school hours. Let me know if you need me to resend the invitation to you. I have assigned a Halloween video book this week. Enjoy all of the Halloween books available to you. Adam has read 200 books so far and Yousef has hit 250 books read. Isaac has the highest number of hours read at over 21 hours! Great job! Keep on reading!

Media-Technology course on Schoology

Many students have been having trouble finding Mrs. Wilcox, Media course that is scheduled on Friday. I have been referring you to her email to communicate with her since I cannot see her course as a teacher. I am still getting many parents asking me about the Media course, so I went into a student course and discovered that she has posted her course as Technology only, not as Media, hence the confusion. So, visit the Technology course every Friday to find her assignments. Mrs. Wilcox is the Media-technology teacher in our building.

Get Ready for a New Week of Learning!