Week 8

   Week 8 

October 26-30

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  10-26	SEL
Tuesday 10-27	Gym
Wednesday 10-28	Art Late Start
Thursday 10-29	Music
Friday  10-30	Media Return Library Books Halloween Party

Pajama Day

The class has earned a reward day! Students may wear their pajamas on Monday!

Halloween Party

Children may wear their costumes all day on October 30.  Please avoid bulky pieces and do not send weapons.  In the afternoon we will have a party.  Thank you to all who’ve offered to send in supplies. Please plan to send things in by Thursday.

Academic Update

We will:

• Visualize and analyze characters in fiction text

• Practice reading and writing L blends

• Work on part-part-whole or missing addend equations

• Continue to work on friends of 10

• Continue reading and learning about space

• Write about the planets

• Develop our Daily 5 stamina

• Begin to learn about positive character traits

Weekly Word Lists

• L Blends: 

• Clap

• Blot

• Flap

• Glad

• Plan

• Sled

• Fluff

• Bless

• Flag

• Clan

• Plum

• Blip

• Slap

• Glum

• Flat

• plot

Sight Words (2nd week of these words)

• They

• Eat

• One

• Up

• Got

• She

• He

• With

• Come

• his

Week 7

 Week 7 

October 19-23

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  10-19	No School for Students
Tuesday 10-20	Gym
Wednesday 10-21	Art Late Start Mr. Reimers will be our guest teacher
Thursday 10-22	Music
Friday  10-23	Media Return Library Books

Halloween Party

Children may wear their costumes all day on October 30.  Please avoid bulky pieces and do not send weapons.  In the afternoon we will have a party.  Unfortunately, snacks need to be store-bought this year.  I am hoping to have families contribute games and craft supplies. There are 18 students in our class. 

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Academic Update

We will:

• Visualize and analyze characters in fiction text

• Practice the digraph ck

• Apply addition strategies: making ten, using the commutative property, counting on, and part-part whole

• Continue reading and learning about space

• Write about our families

• Develop our Daily 5 stamina

• Work on our whole body listening

Weekly Word Lists

• -ck digraph: Neck, brick, sick, check, crack, track

• Sight words: come, one, with, she, got, his, he, they, up, eat

Week 6

Week 6 

October 12-16

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  10-5	School Social Worker Return Friday Folder
Tuesday 10-6	Gym National M&M Day *We will be using M&Ms in our math lesson and eating them.  If this is not okay for your child please let me know.
Wednesday 10-7	Art Late Start National Dessert Day *We will be eating vanilla wafers as part of our study of the moon.  If this is not okay for your child please let me know.
Thursday 10-8	Music
Friday  10-9	Media Return Library Books

Weekly Word List

Whip

When

Then

With

This

While

Thick

Bath

Whale

Thump

Which

That

Thin

Thank

Path

White

Phone

Phrase

Academic Update

We are:

• Continuing our study of digraphs (th, wh, ph)

• Writing about main idea and details 

• Continuing to expand our Daily 5 repertoire

• Building number sense

• Exploring subtraction

• Practicing sight words

Conferences

This year all conferences will be virtual via Google Meets. Thank you to everyone who has already selected a time.  If you haven’t had a chance,  please complete this Survey as soon as possible.  

Practice at Home

• Looking for more? Check on the Digital Choice Board

• READ READ READ!  

• Look for sh and ch words with your child in the car, in books, around the home

• Practice spelling words together such as: ship, chat, chart, short

• Addition/Subtraction flash cards

• Become star gazers/track the phases of the moon/observe the days getting shorter

Week 5

 Week 5 

October 5th - 9th

Look What’s happening this week… 

Monday  10-5	School Social Worker Return Friday Folder
Tuesday 10-6	Gym National Noodle Day *we will be eating butter noodles together-if this is not okay for your Firstie please let me know
Wednesday 10-7	Art Late Start
Thursday 10-8	Music
Friday  10-9	Media Return Library Books

Technology Reminders

Everyone should have their child set up in Google Classroom and Seesaw by now. The Tech Help Website is incredibly helpful should you have any questions.

Absent Work

If your child is absent be sure to check out 

our Digital Choice Board

Academic Update

We are:

• Beginning our study of digraphs (ch and sh)

• Learning about main idea and details in our reading

• Continuing to expand our Daily 5 repertoire

• Discovering strategies for addition

• Writing personal narratives

Weekly Word List

This week's focus is on ch and sh. There will be a test every Friday. 

Chin

Such

Ship

Dish

Chase

Lunch

Shack

Rush

Check

Catch

Shade

Crash

Champ

Inch

Shop

Push

Sight Words List (We will focus on these for 2 weeks)

Do

You

See

Like

Me

To

My

On

Am

and

Practice at Home

• Looking for more? Check out the Digital Choice Board

• READ READ READ!  

• Look for sh and ch words with your child in the car, in books, around the home

• Practice spelling words together such as: ship, chat, chart, short

• Addition flash cards

Conferences

This year all conferences will be virtual via Google Meets. I would like to schedule a time to meet with you in October.  Please complete this Survey