Welcome back! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday break. It was so great to see my "kids" this morning. They were excited and ready to resume learning. It's great when they can pick up a book in reading groups and read it again as if they hadn't missed a day.
This Friday is the end of the 2nd quarter. All work will be due that day. Math homework through lesson 6-3 will be on this grade print out. The December reading record is now due. I sent home the new January reading record (mittens) today. PLEASE read with your children. I will send home a letter by Wednesday that will reiterate the importance of daily at home reading. Watch for that, and hopefully it will reignite your fire to read nightly/daily with your child.
Next week, the second installment of the DIBELS reading test will be administered to all first graders. I will send home those results as soon as I receive them after the test. I will make adjustments in reading groups based on those results. Our class will take the test, on Tuesday, January 14th right at 9:00 a.m. Please have your child here on time that day, well-rested, and well-fed. Actually having your child on time every day and well-rested and well-fed is a great daily practice :)
I sent home spelling words today and I think this list is one of the hardest lists of the year. Please help your child study these words and the dictation sentences so that they can be more successful on the test this Friday. We will have more time in class to work on this words, since the Christmas rush is over with, but they are still tricky and most students will need extra practice at home.
We will finish up our unit on the Moon in the next couple of weeks with the moon bag. Thanks to those that return that moon bag the very next day after observing it. Mrs. Humphrey's will begin teaching about the states of matter and the water cycle, and we will begin a unit on penguins using the reading strategy "close reading". That is where we dissect a book through numerous readings of the same text. Through the various readings we will learn about the different features in a non-fiction (informative) book (labels, graphs, table of contents, glossary etc).
Curriculum Night this year is on Thursday, January 30th at 6:00 p.m. Our class will be performing a very short "Water Cycle" reader's theater that night. Please watch for you child's part to come home in the next few days and continue to read this blog for information regarding Curriculum Night.
Happy Reading!
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