Week 9

Last week, we continued to vowel code our poem for the week.  The class had a exciting time with Reader's Theater.  They really got into acting out and being dramatic.  Ask them what part they played?  Since we started a new month this week, our monthly writing assignment was "A Time I Got Hurt".  Stop by and see what your child wrote and notice the improvement in their writing!  I am so proud of them.  You can see the self-confidence with how much they wrote.  They are finally getting use to how much writing we do in First Grade.  In math, we looked at several strategies that can be used when adding.  In Spectra Art, the class made another sculpture.  Ask your child what animal they made!  

This week, we will begin "Star of the Week".  Sam Chapa will be our first student.  I will be discussing each student's week during conferences.  In Language Arts, we are starting phonograms (sh, th, ee).  Learning phonograms will help your child's spelling and reading skills.  We will still continue to work on vowel sounds.  We will look at topic, main idea, and details in our stories that we read this week.  We will also use Step-Up-To-Writing in our writing about seasons.  This will help students to understand that a paragraph needs to have topic sentence, facts, examples, and a conclusion.  We use colors for each part.  Green is for topic sentence and conclusion, yellow is for facts, and red is for examples.  We only start with green and yellow unless students are at a stage to advance their writing.  We will continue discussing parts of a sentence nouns(naming part) and verbs (action part).  In math, students will begin subtracting.  Please get out your subtraction flash cards.  In science, we want to start our worm hotels.  Please have your students bring in a bag of soil to fill a tennis ball can.   Thank you to Gabby Mackle for volunteering to get the night crawlers.