Week of October 11th

I had such a great time chatting with you guys about your amazing children! I count it a blessing, a joy, and a privilege to be a part of their lives every day. I am so excited about all of the things we are doing in class and I hope you were able to see that excitement. Be looking for the Reading Toolkits coming home today! I started them out with some sticky notes and flags. If you could replenish them after that would be great!

This week at a glance:

Language Arts: Our mentor text this week is The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant. This is a great story that will help us continue to work on making connections. This week we are talking about making Text-to-Self Connections. We are also continuing to review what good readers do! On Mondays, the students get to work with their reading partners. Today before they started to work, they made goals as partners. Check out this picture:

Phonics: ar (bossy r)
Grammar: Proper Nouns

Math: "What's My Rule?" Routines, Counting Strategies for Subtraction, Shortcuts for "Harder" Subtraction Facts, and review. We will be having our 2nd Math Assessment next week! Please continue to work on addition and subtraction facts. Your child should be able to recall these quickly without the use of fingers or other tools.

Social Studies: We are making postcards this week about our North American Landmarks!

Writing Workshop: This week we begin editing and publishing a story! We look forward to sharing them soon.

**We have no school on Friday, so the students' spelling and vocabulary assessment will be on Thursday.

Upcoming Events and Information:

• Picture Re-take Day: Picture Re-Take Day will take place on Tuesday, October 18. Students must return their photo package to have a re-take. Students who were absent on Picture Day need to have their picture taken.
• Fall Festival October 28th - please send in the Fall Festival Forms
• Book fair is coming up! Details will be coming soon.
• Scholastic book orders due this Friday. We will not do book orders in November because of the Book Fair.
• First grade is still collecting items to help support the SPCA. See last week's post to find the link with all of the information.