Here are this week's happenings and annoucements:
- Tomorrow I will be sending home a packet of information about our next DIBELS test. I will send home a note telling you where your child is currently reading and where they "should be" by our December 11th reading test (DIBELS). I will encourage your to continue reading your take-home book every night (more than once), practice sight words and for some of you I will send home some "nonsense words" to practice with your child. I will also send home in this packet a Power School print out and notes if your child's library or take-home books are overdue. Please look over these carefully--you don't need to send them back. If you would like to meet with me personally to discuss what you see I am happy to do so. It's easiest to contact me through e-mail (tifani.armstrong@ironmail.org).
- Today we had our PTA Glow Dance Party for raising over $10,000 at our Walk-a-Thon! The kids had a great time in the gym dancing with disco lights and glow sticks. Thanks to helping make this fundraiser a success.
- In math we have moved from addition concepts to Two-dimensional shapes. We will be learning about the attributes of these shapes (hexagon, trapezoid, rectangle, triangle, rhombus). Things like how many sides and vertices (corners) they have. We will also use these shapes and combine them to make "new" shapes (two trapezoids create a hexagon for example). We will also "take-apart" these shapes. We decided to do this unit and the following unit Three-dimensional shapes before the holiday because it's less intense and we can concentrate on Subtraction concepts after the holiday during a less "exciting month".
- We do not have spelling words this week as we are wrapping up our 3rd unit in reading. We have learned several vowel combinations in this unit and will review for the next week (/oo/, /ou/, /oi/, and /aw/) We have also learned about verbs and are just touching on past and present tense verbs. We write in our journals almost everyday. We will start a new one tomorrow so watch for the Halloween journal to come home and have your child try and share their writing with you. I hope that you can notice improvements.
- In our read-aloud reading we have moved to Early American Civilizations. Right now we are learning about the Mayan civilization in fact today we just learned about how the kings did not walk on the land but rather were carried around by noblemen who considered it an honor to carry the kings. We will also study the Aztec and Inca Civilizations.
- Since December is almost upon us please look for notes next week about a "secret gift" and Gingerbread houses. I can't do these types of activities without some help so I will ask for donations for these extra special Christmas items. Christmastime in First Grade is the best!
Mrs. Armstrong
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