10/11/22-10/14/22
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
*First Grade field trip to the Conant Farm on Wednesday, October 19 from 8:30-10:30!
**Open House will be Wednesday, November 16 (PreK-1) and Thursday, November 17 (grades 2-4) The schedule for both nights: Tour classrooms 5:00-6:00, Dinner 5:30-7:00. Please bring your child! Siblings are welcome, too!
*** Parent-teacher conferences are continuing this week.
****Reading Homework has begun. A new sheet will come home at the beginning of each week. Please help support your child in reading four times a week for at least 15 minutes.
Our Recent Adventures in First Grade:
We have had another couple of busy weeks in First Grade! Here is what we have been up to!
Reading Workshop:
During reading workshop, we continued to practice our stamina while reading independently (we call it “read-to-self”). We also learned about making self-to-text connections to help us better understand the story that we are reading. We learned a new word: Schema! This basically means using everything that we have stored in our brain and memory, past experiences and things that we have learned, that help us make connections to the books we read.
We have also started learning about “sight words” which we will be calling “Power Words” this year because they are so powerful and important for growing readers to know by heart. More information will come home about these in the next week or so.
Writing Workshop:
We have continued to learn about writing “small moment” personal narrative stories. Our focus over the last week or so has been on finding ideas to write about, planning for our stories, and stretching our stories over three pages.
Math:
As of this week, we have finished the first unit of our Investigations Math program. This unit focused on number sense and students did a lot of counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting. They worked on many story problems as well! Our next unit will be on geometry.
Theme (social studies or science):
We continued our unit on Community (we began the year by learning about and building our classroom community) by thinking about the importance of ourselves and our own identities. We will next learn about some other communities that we are a part of including our school and the town. We will focus on community helpers as we get ready for our field trip to the farm!
