Week of September 26-30

Reminders:
Don't forget to ask your families to buy bulbs or Yankee Candles to help support the PTO!

This Week:

Math: We are focusing on subtraction this week!

Literacy: Students are working on short i sounds, possessives and non-fiction reading, while learning about storms.

Science: This week we are focusing on how insects fit into the food web. We will start talking about decomposers as the week progresses.

Guest Reader

We had a special volunteer read to us today! 

Week of September 19th-23rd

Happy Monday!

Reminders:

• Open House is WEDNESDAY 6:00-7:00.
• A PTO fundraiser went home today.
• A homework packet went home today. It is due on Friday. 

This Week:

Math: We are completing Topic 1 on Understanding Addition. Our test will be tomorrow. On Wednesday we will begin working on Topic 2: Understanding Subtraction.

Literacy: We had our first spelling test today. We focused on the procedures for testing, and will be sending home  a list of new words on Wednesday to practice for the following Thursday. We work on our words each day, so you do not need to stress about practicing them at home.

Science: We are working on creating our own insects that follow the rules of insects. We will be writing about them as well.

Xtra Math

Yesterday we learned how to use xtramath.com to practice our addition facts! 

The Macarena is so hard!

For our brain break today we did the Macarena! It was difficult to learn!

Week of September 12th-16th

Reminders:

• If you have not sent in all your paper work- please get it in!
• The PTO is looking for volunteers! A paper went home about it on Monday. 
• Open House is Wednesday September 21st at 6:30. See you then!

This week:

Math: We continue to work on topic one, focusing on making numbers 9 and 10. We are planning on finishing up this topic this week, and work on review and our first test next week.

• We will take all of our tests online, if you would like to log in to their account and see how they are doing, you can go to www.pearsonrealize.com. Their login is firstinitiallastname2.kresw and their password is krsdlunchnumber. An example would be sconnor2.kresw, krsd12345. If you have any difficulty logging in, please do not hesitate to email me!

Literacy: We are working on nouns, short a, consonants f, d, p, and n, the words play, you, with, help, and, be. Students are reading stories and working on talking with their partners about new words.

Science: We are discussing insects. This week we will begin talking about the things that all insects have.

Have a great week!

Week of September 6-9

Welcome to our First Grade Blog!

Reminders for the Week:

• Please bring in all signed and completed paper work as soon as possible!
• Scholastic Book orders are due on Friday, September 9th. 
• Want to order but lost the packets? No problem! You can order online at: http://www.scholastic.com/parents/ our class code is: M8JZD 

This Week in First Grade:

Math: We are starting our first Math Unit on Making 10. Students have been focusing on making the numbers 6,7, and 8 this week. Check out the work that comes home each day to see how your child is doing!

Literature: We have been focusing on review words and letters from last year. We are doing this to help warm up our brains to learn our new first grade words. 

• This block will include reading, writing, and spelling.

Science: Our first science unit will be on insects. We have just started to talk about things that we already know, and things that we wonder about insects.  

Don't forget to get lots of sleep this weekend to prepare for our first full week of school next week!! Also enjoy the hot and sunny weather!!