Dear Parents,
October
already? Boy time flies when you are
having fun! ;) Just a reminder…school starts each day at
8:00. If your child gets to school after
the 8:00 bell rings they are late, please have them go to the office to get a
late slip. If they come to me first and
then I have to send them to the office they are missing more time. THANKS!
GOAL SETTING
CONFERENCES: Goal setting conferences
run from October 5-October 13. My
students will get out of school each day at 12:40. I’m looking forward to meeting all of you and
having a bit of time to get to know one another.
WALK-A-THON: Saturday, October 7, is our annual Walk-a-thon. I’m looking forward to a very fun day! I will be here first thing in the morning punching
lap cards. The first grade teachers have
a popcorn and movie party in the Silent Auction catalog, feel free to bid and
have your child join us for a fun afternoon movie party.
LANGUAGE ARTS: My
students are working on writing small moment stories. They are working on focusing on one thing that
has happened to them they can write about. They are also writing weekly letters
to our person of the week. Reader’s
Workshop has begun and your children work daily on reading strategies,
organizers covering literary elements, phonics and reading with their groups. Thanks to our parent volunteers they are also
reading with an additional adult individually once a week.
MATH: In math we are
working creating routines using data. We
have done a lot of work with the 100 charts and 99 charts so that students
become familiar with patterns in our number system and number sense. We started our weekly math groups. Thanks to those parents who are coming in
every Friday. My students are given the
opportunity to rotate through six stations focusing on various math skills.
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY:
We are working through our Solids and Liquids unit. We have built towers with solids, discussed
their properties, and done some observation.
We have also observed various liquids and discussed their properties. We
are taking a week break this week to do some fun stuff with apples around
Johnny Appleseed’s birthday and then next week we will go right back to our
liquids explorations.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We have completed Unit 1, which covers
citizenship. We have discussed how to be a good citizen and
a positive contributor to our classroom.
Project Cornerstone will start this week. Parent volunteers will come in monthly to
share a special story with my class and discuss various topics such as
bullying, kindness, responsibility, honesty and other important concepts. We are also reading Scholastic News weekly,
which covers current events, science topics and other interesting things about
our every day world.
PE: We have PE two
days a week this school year. Monday
afternoons we go out and do warm ups, run, and work on different physical
skills. On Thursday afternoons we have
Lap Derby where we count how many laps we can walk this school year. We also have a 10-minute PE time every single
morning. Either we are out on the track
taking a lap OR we are in the classroom doing different movement exercises with
Go Noodle.
COOKING: We started cooking on Thursday! I have a good friend, actually an ex-parent,
I taught both of her now adult children, who will come into our room 7 times
this school year to do a cooking project with my class. You will find in today’s folder a message
from her and she will be walking my children through some cooking projects,
cooking safety and cleanliness. At the
end of the school year your child will get a “cookbook” of all the recipes we
did this school year. I know your
children will love it!
HALLOWEEN: My
favorite holiday of the year! I will be
meeting soon with our room parents to coordinate our party for this year, and
we will have lots of fun activities throughout the day that are Halloween
related. I’m not sure what the details
are on our school Halloween parade but once I know what the plan is I will
share it with you so you can join us for that.
SPECIAL DATES:
• Oct. 7: WALK-A-THON! 9:00-4:00
• Oct. 5-13: Goal Setting Conferences, school
dismisses at 1:00
• Oct. 16: No School
• Oct. 27: Field Trip to Hidden Villa Farm
• Oct. 31:
Halloween parade
• Nov. 10:
Veteran's Day/No school
• November 20-24: Thanksgiving break
• November 30: Natural Bridges (Monarch
Butterflies)
• December 18-January 2: Winter Break
• January 15: MLK day/no school
• January 26: Learning Day for teachers, no
school for students
• Jan. 30: 100th Day of School
• Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day
• Feb. 15: Pete the Cat 10:00 at the Flint Center
• Feb. 16: Chinese New Year Centers in the GLC
• Feb. 19-23: Winter break
• March 16: Green Luncheon in Room 30 (St.
Patrick’s Day celebration)
• April 23: Hiller Aviation Museum
• April 16-20: Spring break
• May 18: No school
• May 25: First Grade Performance in the GLC at
1:00
• May 28: Memorial Day/no school
• June 4: End of the Year party/first grade
picnic
• June 7: Last Day of School: dismissal at 11:50
