September 23rd - September 27th

What We Are Learning

Reading: We finally have all Daily Five Literacy Café elements up and running in our classroom! We “gently” jumped into guided reading groups for the year. Students are split up according to their independent reading levels.  While reading in small groups, your child will work on specific comprehension, accuracy, and fluency strategies. As a whole class, we worked on the  Cross Check strategy to help us with accuracy.  Ask your child what that strategy is.

Writing: Your child continues to draft small moment stories. This week we focused on editing our writing to find correct capitalization, end marks, and spelling errors. Ask your child about how M.I.N.T.S help us remember capital letters.

Math: During math this week we continued learning about adding and subtracting numbers using a number line and drawing pictures. We really focused our time on determining the difference between subtraction and addition word problems.

Parent Orientation Night

Save the date October 7th from 6-7 p.m.  in your calendar. WOHE will host an informational night about our new standards based grading system. All the first grade teachers will host a short informational meeting informing you about important classroom information.  Then, you are invited to attend an informational meeting in the Commons hosted my Dr. Bishop on how to read the grade card and look at student progress

Family Message Journals

Today your child will be bringing home a Family Message Journal.  I am so excited about this activity! Read your child’s letter and write them a quick letter back.  Your letter will really mean a lot to him or her!

Word Wall Words

Please practice reading, writing, and spelling our Word Wall Words. 

This week’s word wall words:

you   an   can   no    am

Last week’s word wall words:

see   up   at    he   do

Orchard Hills 5K

The Third Annual “Run for the Orchard” 5K Walk/Run will be held October 19, 2013 at Orchard Hills. Can’t wait to see you there!

Dates to Remember

October 7^th-  Parent Orientation Night

October 19^th- Run for the Orchard 5K