Sept. 12-16
Thank you for supporting our PTA and helping them to reach their goals for this school year. PTA supports many school activities for our students such as paying for their educational field trips and providing financial resources for curriculum enrichment materials and programs. Your membership and donations will go back right to your children by supporting and enriching their learning experiences.
We still need couple of more volunteers to sign up for stuffing the Tuesday folders for the months of March, April, and May. Some of you have already signed up, thank you! If you have not gotten a chance to sign up and you think you are able to help, please let me know and I will add you to the list. Thank you!
GROWTH MINDSET
We have been working on how to stay positive, work our best and hardest, show perseverance and never say, "I can't", but rather, "I can't, YET". In the past 3 weeks, we had another wonderful lesson called " Austin's Butterfly". Ask your child to tell you the story of Austin, a little boy who tried his hardest to draw a Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. This lesson involves many great life lessons such as showing perseverance, not giving up quickly, and giving constructive criticism to our friends to grow and learn more. For the first lesson, we emphasized on the fact that " Austin didn't give up and tried his hardest to do the best he can".
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. When writing the letters of alphabet, we always start from the top to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. When writing their names, please encourage your child to practice writing his/her names neatly starting with a capital letter and then lowercase letters for the rest. If you need double lined paper at home, please let me know.
Thank you for supporting our PTA and helping them to reach their goals for this school year. PTA supports many school activities for our students such as paying for their educational field trips and providing financial resources for curriculum enrichment materials and programs. Your membership and donations will go back right to your children by supporting and enriching their learning experiences.
We still need couple of more volunteers to sign up for stuffing the Tuesday folders for the months of March, April, and May. Some of you have already signed up, thank you! If you have not gotten a chance to sign up and you think you are able to help, please let me know and I will add you to the list. Thank you!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folders and return the next day.
Wednesday: Tuesday homework is due.
Wednesday: Tuesday homework is due.
Thursday: Library Day. All library books are due this Thursday by 8:00 AM. We will check out two new books from the library this week.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: P.E. days. Please have your child wear tennis shoes.
Please continue sending a healthy snack each day. Thank you!
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: P.E. days. Please have your child wear tennis shoes.
Please continue sending a healthy snack each day. Thank you!
GROWTH MINDSET
We have been working on how to stay positive, work our best and hardest, show perseverance and never say, "I can't", but rather, "I can't, YET". In the past 3 weeks, we had another wonderful lesson called " Austin's Butterfly". Ask your child to tell you the story of Austin, a little boy who tried his hardest to draw a Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. This lesson involves many great life lessons such as showing perseverance, not giving up quickly, and giving constructive criticism to our friends to grow and learn more. For the first lesson, we emphasized on the fact that " Austin didn't give up and tried his hardest to do the best he can".
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING
This week in reading we will practice “read to someone”. Read to someone will help us to be a better reader, practice our fluency and mostly it is lots of fun. We will learn how to sit closely to our reading partner, so our elbows and knees touch. This close proximity will allow us to read with such quiet voice that only our reading partner can hear us and not the rest of the class. It would also allow both of us to see the words and the pictures. We will learn how reading partners take turns choosing a book to read, and how they can take turns reading a paragraph or page of the book.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Spicewood Spring public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book, as long as it is a good fit book for your child.
Spicewood Spring public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book, as long as it is a good fit book for your child.
WRITING
This week in writing we will continue working on our stories. The children have done a great job illustrating and writing about some real events in their lives. We will learn how to write in complete sentences. A complete sentence is a complete thought that tells who or what the sentence is about, and what happened. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark. We will also learn how to use our word wall list to spell the first grade sight words correctly. Please refer to your child's daily folder for a list of 100 first grade words. Some other skills that we will be working on this week include saying the words slowly in order to hear the beginning, the middle and the ending sounds in each word.
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. When writing the letters of alphabet, we always start from the top to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. When writing their names, please encourage your child to practice writing his/her names neatly starting with a capital letter and then lowercase letters for the rest. If you need double lined paper at home, please let me know.
MATH
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers, and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could stand for a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers, and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could stand for a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
SCIENCES
In science we will learn about properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore the objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
In science we will learn about properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore the objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
THANK YOU!
Thank you for stuffing the folders and being willing to help in the classroom or outside the classroom. Your helping hands and hearts are greatly appreciated!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together. So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together. So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning!
