September 30th - October 4th

What We Are Learning

Reading: We now have our guided reading and Daily 5 literacy block up and running!  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  using our schema (what we already know) to help us understand what we read. 

Writing: This week we wrapped up our narrative writing unit.  We focused on editing our stories to find errors in capital letters, punctuation, and spelling.  Ask your child about our writing celebration!

Math: We finished our unit on adding and subtraction numbers within 10. I am super proud of the progress students have made! Tell your child to keep up the good work!

Orchard Hills 5K

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

Word Wall Words

For the next two week, we will be reviewing all the word wall words we have learned so far. Please practice reading, writing, and spelling the following words:

the    I     to    a     is   go    my    on  me    like    and   in    we   it   so   see    up    at   he    do    you   an   can   no   am

Raz-Readers

Last week I sent home information about a website called Raz-Kids. This is a great website that allows your child to have access to hundreds of eBooks.

Website: www.raz-kids.com

User Name: Orchard1b

Happy Reading!

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.  

Dates to Remember

October 7^th-  Parent Orientation Night

October 11^th- Dismiss at 12:30

October 19^th- Run for the Orchard 5K

October 22^nd-24^th– Parent Teacher Conferences

October 25^th- No School