Monday: Parent Information Night (6:30-7:00) in room 302. For a school wide schedule of tonight’s activities please see the schedule below. I look forward to seeing you all tonight.
5:00-7:00 Back-to-School Fair (PTA event on the blacktop)
6:00-6:30 TAG (for parent of students currently receiving TAG services)
6:30-7:00 Kinder-2nd Parent Information meetings
7:00-7:30 PTA Meeting w/Principal Updates
7:30-8:00 3rd-5th Parent information meetings
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
All library books are due next Wednesday, September 23rd, by 8:00 AM. We will check out two new books from the library every other week.
This week:
READING
This week in reading we will practice “read to someone”. Read to someone will help us to be a better reader, practice our fluency and mostly it is lots of fun. We will learn how to sit closely to our partner. This close proximity will allow us to read with quiet voices so that only our partner can hear us and not the rest of the class. It will also allow both of us to see the words and the pictures. There are two ways to read to someone. One way is to take turns reading a paragraph or a page and the other is to do choral reading, where both partners read together.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Spicewood Spring public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book, as long as it is a good fit book for your child.
WRITING
This week in writing we will continue working on our stories. The children have done a great job illustrating and writing about some real events in their lives. We will learn how to write in complete sentences. A complete sentence is a complete thought that tells who or what the sentence is about, and what happened. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark. We will also learn how to use our word wall list to spell the first grade sight words correctly. Please refer to your child's daily folder for a list of 100 first grade words.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. Almost all of the letters in alphabet start at the top move to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. Also please have your child practice writing their names neatly starting with capital letter and then lowercase letters.
MATH
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers, and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could stand for a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will also work on gathering data such as number of birthdays in a month, or our favorite food and show our data with tally marks. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison through problem solving.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will learn about state and national patriotic symbols, including the United States and Texas Flags, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, and the Alamo. We will recite and explain the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag and the pledge to the Texas Flag. We will also identify mottoes of Texas and the United States.
Thursday, September 17 is Constitution Day. We will explain constitution as a set of rules for our country.
SCIENCE
In science we will learn about properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses to explore the objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, weight and shape.
Thank you!