Red Ribbon Week
This week is Red Ribbon Week. We will talk about a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy, exercising and staying away from all the harmful things that could hurt our bodies. As a whole school, we will do a different activity each day to show our support for a healthy and happy life.
Monday: Red Ribbon Day- we will start to wear our red ribbon today and for the rest of the week.
Tuesday: Pair up and make good choices (find a friend and dress up as twins)
Wednesday: Sock It To Drugs Day (we will wear silly/crazy socks to school)
Thursday: Good character is our super power (we will wear superhero clothing)
Friday: Rally In Red Day (we will wear as many red items as we can).
HOMEWORK
This week's homework will be one reading activity for nonfiction and math homework will be sent tomorrow in the Tuesday folder. I will no longer be sending a reading log home on Mondays. I have found it is not a useful tool for most families. Our goal is still 50 minutes a week of reading!
VOLUNTEERS
Thank you parent volunteers. My October volunteers are busy helping in so many ways. Please remember that all volunteers must complete the volunteer application and that any field-trip chaperon must be an approved volunteer.
The Volunteer Application is easy to find. Simply go to roundrockisd.org/volunteer
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday: Library Day! All library books are due by 8:00. Early Release 12:45
Friday: Homework is due.
November 6: Field Trip to ZACH's Theater for Youth
First grade will be busy this week learning...
READING
We will continue our study of expository/nonfiction text. As a class we discussed the features of nonfiction such as real photos, table of contents, glossary, captions, labels, index, diagrams and maps. We concluded that the purpose of reading nonfiction text is to learn! We also learned the differences between fiction and nonfiction. One difference is that we read fictional text from beginning to end. However, we do not have to do the same thing when we read non-fiction. We can read the parts of nonfiction text which hold the information we want to know, or the information that is important to us. This week we will be reading texts about bats!
WRITING
We will continue writing non-fiction. Our focus this week will be writing facts about bats. We are learning how to draw careful diagrams like scientist and label the parts. Our goal is to write these facts so we can teach others about what we have learned.
MATH
This week we will learn to tell time. We will learn to tell time to the hour using a digital and an analog clock. We will learn about the hands on an analog clock. The hour hand (the short hand) and the minute hand (the long hand) give us the information we need to tell what time it is!
SOCIAL STUDIES
Maps and globes are the focus this week in Social Studies. As a class we will compare the two and learn how each is important. We will also be learning about where we are located in the big scheme of the world, starting with our street address and moving outwardly to the entire world.