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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

2015-2016 Friends!

Welcome to First Grade
Specials
Monday-P.E
Tuesday-Music
Wednesday-Art
Thursday-Library
Friday-P.E.
*Please wear sneakers on gym days.
*Please bring in a smock if you haven’t yet.
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Upcoming Dates
Sept 7/Monday-No school
Sept 14/ Monday-No school
Sept 23/Wednesday-No school
Phonics
We are reviewing letters and sounds to prepare for blending words.  We are also practicing handwriting.
Reading
 
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Our class has been working hard with different shared reading stories such as Chrysanthemum, Wemberly Worried, Hooray for Wodney Wabbit, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  Next week we will be starting unit 1: Exploring Elements of Fiction.  This unit concentrates on story elements, main idea and detail, and comparing/contrasting. 
We are also practicing and getting ready to begin daily 5.  Daily 5 will take up about an hour of our reading time.  Students will work with Ms. Lahey in small groups for guided reading.  Others will get to choose an activity: read to self, read to a partner, word work (phonics), writing, or listening to reading.  We are excited about the arrival of devices (laptops) coming at the end of October.  Students will be able to use them as a tool to access their daily 5 work.
Math
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Students have been having a blast exploring math manipulatives.  Unit 1 math is: How many of each?  We will be adding subtracting and continuing their number sense.  So far we have been working hard at mastering numbers 1-20.
Others
Please check your child’s homework every night Monday-Thursday.  Behavior calendars in their purple folder should be initialed every night.
Please return all of that “beginning of the year paperwork” to Ms. Lahey soon!  Special thanks, I know it is a lotJ


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