Monday, Monday!

Monday= A Tuesday= B Wednesday= C Thursday= D Friday= A


We are back on track after our busy week last week! Learning Celebration, picture day and health screening had us busy! Learning Celebration last Friday was a HIT! Hopefully your child came home full of knowledge about the Constitution and good character traits, in addition to coming home tired from playing hard all day. I hope you had a super weekend together and are ready to rock on another week of learning.

Our kids have learned about using the laptops since my last post! We have gotten to check out the school laptops and are learning how to log in and find all sorts of learning games that are teaching us about vowel sounds, ending sounds, story elements, and addition! Have your child tell you about their favorite game they have played on their laptops, so far. They should also be able to tell you their BACKWARDS COMPUTER LOGIN NAME. Don't let them forget the magic number that comes at the end of their backwards name!

I did a sight word check on all of the students who were here today and had their folders. Many of our children have passed lists 6, 7, and 8. If your child is still working to master list 1 or 2, PLEASE find a few minutes each night to help them review. My son and I make a game out of it. Any additional time and support you can provide your child at home will only help them further in the classroom. As a class, we will be studying list 5 this week and using the words from this list in our daily activities. If your student is not yet on list 5, PLEASE continue to help them each night. I always try to do sight word checks on Mondays and Fridays. If there is ever an opportunity to do addtional checks in the middle of the week, I try very hard to squeeze some checks in. These days are scheduled a little bit differently with our reading groups, so there is not as much flexibility. Last week, we were completely off of our schedule due to Learning Celebration and some other activities. Thank you for being patient as we try to juggle all of the jobs we have to do in first grade!

This week we will continue to work on beginning and ending sounds, as well as long and short vowel sounds. We will work on sentence writing using our List 5 sight words. We will continue to work on PT+ (put together add) in math and writing number sentences. We will travel to Mrs. O'Toole's classroom for some super science activities this week and we will finish our Kansas symbol torn art project left over from last Friday.

It is sure to be another busy week. Please let me know if you need anything or if you have any questions. Thanks so much to everyone for getting in their zoo permission slips! Thank you, also, for your help at home! Have a great Monday!