September 3rd - 6th

Calendar:

September 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Labor Day)
September 5th - Picture Day 
September 13th  - Special Friends Day (1:30 - 2:30)

BOOK FAIR

The TCE Book Fair is coming soon!!  It will take place  the week of September 9th - 13th. Please click on the link below if you would like to volunteer!

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/904044eaca62d6-20191 

Look At What We Are Learning:

Language Arts:

• In spelling we will talk about the short /i/ sound.
• During Reader's workshop we are learning how to shop for the right books, staying focused when reading, and building stamina.
• During Writer's Workshop we will continue to focus on Narrative Writing and how to make a story flow with transition words. 

Social Studies:

We will continue our unit on Communities and being a good citizen.  We will talk about citizenship and roles within the community.

Math:

Next week, we will continue to subitize numbers. The goal is for our learners to instantly recognize numbers. Learners will also be ordering numbers on a number line while practicing counting to 120 from any given number. 

Please see the links below to practice subitizing at home.

Subitizing with tally marks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmWGHnoCOng

Subitizing up to 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyz_OycV4A

Subitizing up to 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR9LK3zfho

Subitizing up to 20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVjvswqL-Ow



Science:
This week we will be wrapping up Science Safety and Tools.  We will start lots of investigations about solids and liquids and their properties.

Discussions At Home:

Don't forget to study your spelling words each week.  Spelling tests will be given on Fridays.

Practice counting to 120 from any given number with your child.  Parents pick a number and take turns saying the next number until you reach to 120.  

In Other News:

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out to curriculum night.  Here is the presentation that we shared with everyone.  There are some great links to first grade information in the presentation.
We are also linking the presentation to the left side of the blog so you can find it quickly.

Curriculum Night

First Grade Pics:

 

August 26 - August 30th

Calendar:
August 29th - Curriculum Night for parents at 5:30.  Please mark your calendar to attend this special event so you can learn about our first grade curriculum!!  We hope to see you there!
**Mrs. Burks and Mrs. McCullough will be in A102 
** Mrs. Sork and Mrs. Vincenzo will be in A106.  

September 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Labor Day)

September 13th  - Special Friends Day

Look At What We Are Learning:

Language Arts:

• In spelling, we will begin our weekly spelling rules and tests.  Please look for the spelling note that will come home on Monday.  It will explain our weekly spelling rules and what our spelling curriculum looks like.  The spelling rule we will work on next week are words that have the short /a/ sound. 

• In reading, we are working on building our stamina as readers.  We are also using flexible seating to find our comfiest spots to read in. 

• In writing we are beginning our unit on Narrative Writing.  We love being able to write a fiction and nonfiction stories that have a beginning, middle, and end! 

Social Studies:

We will begin our study of community and how we are a part of a community.  We will be talking about different types of communities, rules of communities, and jobs within the community.

Math:

Next week, we will continue to subitize numbers. The goal is for our learners to instantly recognize numbers.  Please see the link below to practice subitizing at home.

Subitizing up to 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyz_OycV4A

Subitizing up to 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR9LK3zfho

Subitizing up to 20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVjvswqL-Ow


Science:
We will continue using science tools safely in order to make observations and how we can record these in our science journals. 

Discussions At Home:

Keep having great discussions at home about what a GROWTH MINDSET looks like in school and at home.

First grade will receive their iPads next week.  While we are all very excited to have individual iPads, please know that these iPads will remain at school and will only be used under the direction of the teachers.  The iPads do not take the place of pencil/paper or teacher facilitated lessons, instead they are used to extend, research, and collaborate on units of study.  We will be talking about proper use of the iPads and we would love for these discussions to carry over into the home.

In Other News:

Thank you to all the parents who have brought in extra supplies for our classroom.  WE APPRECIATE YOU!!!!

If you haven't purchased your grade level shirt, please make sure you do that as soon as possible.  PTO is working very hard on getting shirts to those people that have already ordered.

First Grade Pics:

Subitizing with our friends! 

Sweet Friends!  

 

Love these smiles!

A little Texan Town fun!!

It's always more fun when you have
a friend to play with! 

August 19th - August 23rd

Calendar:

August 29th - Curriculum Night for parents at 5:30.  Please mark your calendar to attend this special event so you can learn about our first grade curriculum!!  We hope to see you there!
**Mrs. Burks and Mrs. McCullough will be in A102 
** Mrs. Sork and Mrs. Vincenzo will be in A106.  

September 2nd - NO SCHOOL (Labor Day)

September 13th  - Special Friends Day

Look At What We Are Learning:

Language Arts:
Next week we will begin our assessments for sight words and reading levels.  We will also talk about the care of books in our classroom and introduce writing journals. 

Social Studies:

We will talk about having a GROWTH MINDSET and what that looks like for a first grade learner.  We hope that these conversations about growth mindset will carry over into your homes.  It is a very powerful tool for each first grade learner!

Math:

Next week we will learn to subitize (instantly recognize a group of objects).  For example, when you see three dots, you do not have to count each individual dot.  Instead, you instantly know that there are three dots.  This is called subitizing. 

Science:


We will be learning what it means to be a scientist.  We will also work with science tools in a safe way to explore the world around us.

Discussions At Home:

Talk about what a GROWTH MINDSET looks like at your house.  Practice saying the growth mindset vocabulary words that will be coming home.

In Other News:

We are so excited to begin a new school year with all of you!  First grade is off to a great start!  Our first grade blog will be updated every Friday.  Please make sure to check it each week for important reminders and curriculum updates.

First Grade Pics:

 

Welcome to 1st grade!

First Day of School: August 14th