***This week we begin our word study program and our guided reading groups.
Word Study: Word Study binders will come home tomorrow and need to be brought back on Friday. Please have your child write their words in the third column ("best column") in their best handwriting. I highly encourage your child to practice their words in fun ways at home! A list of suggestions can be found in the "handouts" section in their binder.
Guided Reading Groups: Your child's book will be sent home tomorrow and need to be brought back on Friday also. Please have your child read this book to you every night that it is home.
September 10th, 11th, 19th: No school
September 18th 8:30 AM-1:00 PM Walking Tour of Davidson: We are so excited to still get to go on this field trip! Because it was rained out last spring, we decided the kids should still have this amazing opportunity to go explore Davidson and meet our community helpers. Community helpers, cardinal directions, and maps are all a big part of our social studies curriculum. We will need parent chaperones to walk with us so put this date on your calendar if you are interested. More details to come!
October 18th CSD Kickball Festival: This event is for the whole family! Be sure to mark your calendars. We still need a parent volunteer from our classroom to help plan the first grade booth. 😁
October 19th Fairy Tale Ball 8:30-10:30 AM: The kids are all SO excited for this event! We plan and throw a Fairy Tale Ball for all first graders to attend. Students dress up as their favorite fairy tale character and they rotate through different stations/activities over the course of two hours. Parents are welcome to come and watch the very beginning of the ball when the students will do a group dance. This portion will last about 10 minutes. We will also need parent volunteers to help run the stations. More details to come but mark this date on your calendar. You won't want to miss it!
Math
Students continued to practice our "grab bag" game that works on counting, one-to-one correspondence, estimating, using 10 frames to organize and count cubes, figuring out how many more to make 20, and recording their findings on a chart. They have mastered this activity so it will now go into one of our eight tubs. This week I will introduce a new game called "Start With. Get To." Students will pull a card with a number on it and they will make a tower with that many cubes. They will pull another card and they have to change the tower to match the new number (adding or subtracting cubes). They will have to record both of these numbers on a chart and then write what change they had to make (ex. add 4, subtract 6, etc.). Addition and subtraction should always be taught simultaneously and this activity is perfect for that!
Literacy:
We continued to build our stamina with "read to self" and "read to someone" doing our Daily 5 time. The students are doing well with this and especially love the "read to someone" portion. I will introduce "listen to reading" this week at our listening station. We have around 60 books on CD that the students can go listen to and follow along in the book. We have already done guided reading groups for two weeks but this week will be the first week that the books come home. We will also begin our word study program this week and some of this will happen during our literacy time.
Thematic:
We finished studying Cinderella and began our next fairy tale which is Little Red Riding Hood. We love to find all of the different versions to read of each story. We have continued to talk about the "elements of a fairy tale" and which ones exist in is each story. We are also intertwining learning about map and the cardinal directions into this curriculum. It is easy to do when we are learning about the different fairy tale kingdoms or settings in the storiesHave a great week!
Love,
Mrs. James
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