Peek The Week:

Theme: Apples

Monday: Identifying a Rectangle, Identifying the Number of Sides and Angles of a Rectangle; P.E.
Tuesday: Writing Number Sentences for "Some, Some More" Stories, Creating Addition Problem Situations; Computers
Wednesday: Library; Creating and Reading a Repeating Pattern; Early Out (dismiss at 1:30)
Thursday: Addition Facts: Doubles with Sums to 18; P.E.
Friday: Identifying the Attributes of Pattern Blocks; Math Test; Spelling Test; Art

Spelling Words: pretty, am, me, make, will

SEP's are next week. Please send home the slip as soon as you can. I'll try to accomodate everyone.

September Home Reading Calendars are due on Friday. The children that return them and have read 20 minutes each night will get to play Minute to Win It!

Theme: Friends/Pets

Monday: In math we will be counting from 0 - 23. We will do a Friends in School name graph for social studies. We will also learn the last Daily 5 called "Listen to Reading." Today is P.E.

Tuesday: In math we will write addition number sentences. In social studies we will make "Friend Coupons."

Wednesday: In math we will identify ordinal number positions to the sixth place. We also have Library today!

Thursday: In math we will learn our first Math Facts. They're called the "Doubles." We will just be learning sums to 10. Today is P.E. For social studies we will talk about Pets and pet care.

Friday: We have a spelling and a math test today.

Spelling Words: she, are, he, funny, with

I've sure enjoyed these kids! Home reading books should start coming home soon. Please get your pledge money in from the Walk-a-thon this week!

A lot is happening in First Grade! The kids are doing sooooo well! Here's what will be happening next:

Theme: Families

Monday - Pennies, families.
Tuesday - Identifying a number between 2 numbers, families work and play together.
Wednesday - using apples to divide a shape in half, library.
Thursday- Walk-a-Thon! We walk at, graphing a picture on a pictograph.
Friday - DIBELS testing, Sorting by one attribute, written math assessment, spelling test, relative booklets.

Upcoming Events: I will be gone for a few days(family emergency) but am leaving the children in GREAT hands with Mrs. Cindy Davidson. She is wonderful and a good friend of mine.

Here's a "Peek" at the next First Grade Week!

Theme: One of a Kind

Math: On Tuesday we will be acting out some - some went away(subtraction) and some - some more(addition) Math Stories. On Wednesday we will be Identifying a Triangle and sorting shapes by one attribute. On Thursday we will make shapes on a "Geoboard." On Friday we will be drawing pictures for addition and subtraction stories.

Spelling Words: the, not, do, want, you.

Daily 5: We are building our stamina on Read to Self and Work on Writing. We are also learning how to do Work on Words!

Upcoming Events: Flag Ceremony Friday at 9:00. Keep working on the Walk-a-thon pledges. Library is Wednesday.