In Phonics, In phonics, we have learned all of the short vowel sounds. The children have done well writing their short vowel sounds. We have  been doing a lot of sentence dictation exercises. These daily activities will help the children with their sentence writing skills.  This week we learned our digraphs. Students practiced reading and spelling words containing digraphs, with much focus this week on the digraph "ck." Students learned that we now know three ways to make the /k/ sound: c, k, ck. They learned that "ck" is used at the end of a word following the short vowel.  They did awesome on their trick word assessments, they are also in their red folders. 

The kids love using their magnetic tiles in phonics class

In Math, We finished our unit on addition. The children learned several different strategies   to show addition equations. They all did well on their math assessments that went home on Monday.   We started our subtraction unit. The children are learning that when something goes away the number gets smaller and you use subtraction as our math equation.  The children are now learning that when doing word problems they need to listen to the key words and decide if they need to add or subtraction to answer the problem. They all worked very hard on their math facts this week. we are going to move on to +4's, the children seem ready and know their facts to this point. I am so proud of how determined they are each Friday to come in begging to take their timed tests. They are a DETERMINED CREW! 

In Science, we did a fun activity with the Grade 7 STEM class. We did a lesson on speed. The first graders were timed doing several activities they had to run, skip, and frog leaps. The 7th grade will now spend some time calculating to see which speeds were the fastest and which ones took longer. We will reconnect with them to discuss the results. It was great to see the first graders looking up to the 7th graders. They were all so well behaved and great role models for peer learning. 

Classroom Highlights

The children looked amazing on picture day! We use do dress-up nice! I took a class picture, because you never know what they will do in that picture day photo!

We had two special guests this week! One was Miss Kim our Pre-school teacher's daughter. She is a senior in high school and would love to go college for teaching. She was a huge hit in 1b..the kids loved her! I also loved having her take  the kids in reading groups and show off their 

oral reading skills. Our other guest was Rebel and Officer Hart, we always love seeing these two coming into the school! 

                                      Class pic with Miss Jessie!

Our final highlight was making our own books. The kids loved writing an illustrating their own books. They then read them to the class.They were begging me to do it gain everyday this week! 

Reminders- 

      * The progress reports went home on Friday. Please email a time you have any questions. I am happy to meet at any point.  

   * Thursday October 21st will be a casual day for 1$ to raise awareness of Breast cancer. If you have pink please dress your child in it! 

      * October 29th- 5:30 TRunk or Treat, Games, Crafts and Movie.. Come join the fun!!