Gosh, I wish we were having a long weekend. Breaks in the middle of the week are not easy to manipulate. Oh, well, we will do our best to make a GREAT week anyway!
UPDATES
This week our whole group reading sound will be /sh/ as in sheep. The Read Well story for Unit 14 is about a sheep who shows acts of kindness. So our writing jobs will be related to sheep and we will be discussing ways to show kindness to others. We will also spend some time talking about Thanksgiving for the next two weeks.
I didn't send an AR printout due to the fact that children weren't able to get books to read from the library, as well as, I need a new black printer cartridge. Now that the Book Fair is over the library will be open again for book check out. Several children read books from our class library and tested on those. Please continue to read, in addition to library books, the last 2 or 3 units of Read Well homework stories. Because this familiar text uses words that the children have learned in small groups in weeks past, smooth fluency should be expected, not stopping every other word or so to sound out. If this is happening make a note of those words to practice.
Remember, you can find the list of language rules in your child's notebook. This week I'll introduce Rule 11. Rule 11 is about nouns. We will begin talking about and identifying nouns. Help your children at home by asking them to identify nouns. I'm happy to see children applying these rules in their writing jobs!!!
We are discussing place value in Math. The children like this because we have been using manipulatives to work with this. We'll test on this chapter at the end of the week.
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Manners of the Heart Workshop for Parents is November 12th. This workshop will be in the library from 8:30 to 10:30 and will help you reinforce the character lessons that I teach at school. Anne Shoemaker will be leading the workshop, and she is just wonderful! I sure hope that you can attend!
November 16-22 is American Education Week. The following is a list of activities planned for that week. You may want to begin brainstorming ideas about what your child will do for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
Monday-We'll do an author study and make a display outside our class.
Tuesday-Students may come to school dressed in the career of their choice.
Wednesday-In class we will write and illustrate, "What I Like Best About My School." We will display these in the class.
Thursday-A guest reader to come a read to the class.
Friday-Children can bring in their all time favorite book to share.
Remember NO school Tuesday, November 11th.
FIELD TRIP ~ November 21st to see Cinderella.
All money and permission slips are due Monday the 10th. We will wear our GREEN First Grade Friends t-shirts. No jeans please.
Have a wonderful week and email me with any questions or concerns.
Ms. Messick
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