- I sent home Scholastic book orders today. Those are optional of course, but a nice way to get some inexpensive or sought after books to add to your child's collection. Some first grade favorites are Piggie and Elephant books and Pete the Cat books which both have collections in the catalogues I sent home and If you Give a Mouse a Brownie is just $1.00. Please use the class code and order online--you can still send a check in with your order, but it's so much easier on both ends to order online. Those orders will be due this Friday, September 13.
- This Thursday at 3:00 in our classroom is the first PTA reading awards (bookmarks sent home at the beginning of the year). Usually the PTA will send home notices to those that will be receiving an award. I haven't received those yet, but will make sure you are informed of the awards if you'd like to attend. We will be joining with Mrs. Carter's class for those awards.
- I just got an e-mail about Spirit Friday. In a nutshell, if you child wears an East Elementary shirt or just "wears blue" on Friday then they will be able to put their name on a ticket for a monthly drawing. Every Friday is a new ticket and the last Friday of the month a ticket is drawn from each classroom for a prize.
- As far as learning goes.... in math we are finishing up our chapter on Addition. We will take the test on this chapter tomorrow and start subtraction concepts on Thursday. We will start with using pictures to take from and then modeling "taking from". We have started our WIN groups for reading and writing. It's a bit confusing for the students at first, but I think they are getting the hang of where to go. We just read about Bud the Cat today in our reader. We have been learning about nouns. So far we know that nouns are words the name "people and things" (we'll add "places" later). We are learning about double consonants (ll, ss, zz etc and about the spelling 'ck" for the /k/ sound). We finished our folktale Medio Pollito and just started a Jewish tale called The Crowded Noise House and later on in the week we'll hear Peter Rabbit.
- Thanks for doing a great job sending back your child's take-home book because that means your child read a book on their level the night before. Please keep in touch with me about the level I sent home. If you think it's too hard or too easy we don't want that. We want a "just right" fit.
- Yesterday we had a discussion about keeping our hands to ourselves and it led to a discussion about "private parts" along that vein. I wanted to tell you what we discussed in case your child brings it up to you. We talked like I said about keeping our hands to ourselves and that it's not funny to hit someone in their private part. I told them private parts are where a swimming suit covers your body. We talked about how our bodies are special and deserve to be treated that way. We also discussed what to do if that ever happens to them--tell an adult immediately! If you have any concerns please contact me.
Happy Reading!
Mrs. Armstrong
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