Thank you! And a Weekly Recap

First Grade Families-

First off, I'd like to thank everyone who came out last night to Curriculum Night.  It was nice to meet you all and to see some familiar faces from the past!  Your support means the world to me and your child.  They LOVED reading your notes you left them this morning.  Some of them even kept them in their unfinished work folder to read over and over again.  How sweet!  If you were not able to make it last night, I am sending all the information home with your child today.  Also- my presentation in on the District 10 website if you'd like to view it.  Please let me know if you have any questions about anything you read in the packet or on the presentation.

This week was another busy one in room 7!  Here's what we did....

Reading

• Read "The Hat" about two friends who help each other out when a hat flies off one of their heads.  
• We learned about a story's sequence (the order things happen in a story so it makes sense) and practiced answering questions while reading.  
• We read the story 3 times this week in different ways!  
• First we read it echoing Ms. Petrucci.  
• Second we read under our desks as a whole class.  
• Third, we each took turns reading pages of the story (we ALL got a turn to read a page, so we read the story a few times that day).
• We also learned about what makes a complete sentence and how to write complete sentences.

Spelling

• We practiced our spelling words EVERY day this week!
• We built the words with letter cards to blend AND spell our weekly words.
• We also spelled in a wacky way by using our white boards to spell the words three times each.
• Finally, we learned a spelling game, Sparkle that we will play every week.  It's pretty fun!
• We took our test and everyone did very well!

Math:

• We continued Topic 4 by learning different strategies for adding.
• We also started learning strategies for subtraction.
• Topic 4 will also continue into next week with the quiz being a week from Monday.

Health:

• We wrapped up our unit on Safety last week.
• This week we focused on Feelings.  
• We read "The Feelings Book" by Todd Parr and discussed all the different feelings mentioned in the book.  We then got into partners and talked about times where we felt happy, sad, excited, etc.  We colored a feelings chart each time we talked about s different feeling on the chart.

Remember:  Picture Day is on Wednesday!  Make sure to send in the order form by Wednesday (our pictures are in the morning so it needs to be at school on Wed AM) if you would like to order school pictures!

Have a wonderful and safe weekend!  Stay warm in this chilly weather!