I am looking forward to parent conferences this week and over the next few weeks. If you have not had a chance to sign up for a conference, please do so as soon as possible. You may fill out the form sent in last week's Tuesday folder or contact me by phone or e-mail. I would love to meet with everyone this first grading period to discuss your child's current skills and goals for this year.
EDUCATION GO GET IT WEEK This week is Education Go Get It Week. Education Go Get It Week provides students with information about higher education options.
Monday: Students and families can learn about colleges and majors at Round Rock High School. 6:00-8:00 pm
Tuesday: A career riddle will be broadcast on the announcement
Wednesday: Students will dress up in " what they want to be when they grow up" outfits.
Thursday: Teachers will share information about the college they attended.
Friday: Students and staff will wear college shirts to school.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, Sept.24th; Early Release Day. Dismissal is at 12:45. Library Day! All library books are due by at 8:00.
This week's learning in first grade:
READING
This week we will learn about fiction and the elements of fiction. We will learn about the setting (the place and time of the story), the characters (the important people/animals that do or say important things in the story), and the plot (series of important events in the story). We will learn that just like the stories we write, fictional stories also have a beginning, middle and ending.
WRITING
We will continue writing stories about our lives. This week we will learn how we can "zoom in" and write about a small moment in time. Our job from here on is to discover those small moments in our lives. A small moment happens over a few short seconds or minutes. For example, it could be about a moment that I was riding my bike and I fell into a mud puddle and hurt my knee, or about a time that we were in the car and we had to stop the car in the middle of the street because a deer was standing there and wouldn't move. We will learn how we can expand our small moment with details and write it over a few lines. We will also use our fingers and tell our small moments across our hand so we can record the beginning, the middle and the end of our small moments.
MATH
We have been working on place value. The children have learned that the place of a digit in a number matters and depending on its place a digit can represent tens, or ones. This week we will learn about decomposing numbers and describing the numbers in expanded form. For example, 34 is actually 30 and 4 and 52 is 50 and 2. We will also compare numbers using number line. We will review the vocabulary, greater and less than. For example, looking at a number line, what number is one less than 17? or 16 is one less than what number? We will apply our knowledge of number line and number comparison to solve everyday math problems.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will learn about our great state of Texas! We will discuss our state symbols including the Texas flag, and Texas pledge. Our motto is friendship. We will also learn about the leaders in our state and community.
Thank you for supporting your child's learning at home!