News for the week of 10-15...

Notes from Ms. Rau:

• Our Halloween Celebration will be Wednesday, October 31st from 8:30-9:30. Students should come to school dressed in their costume! We will begin our party first thing in the morning and it will be followed by our school wide Halloween parade at 9:45am. We will end our morning watching a Halloween movie. I was able to get two volunteers for Halloween bingo, so I am all set, thank you! Remember this is a half day for students. 
• Box Tops - Last year we were one of the top two classes for the box top contest. To keep the trophy in our room we need your help! Please clip and collect box tops for our school and glue them onto the sheet given. If you need more sheets you can find them in the email Mrs. Goethals sent out last Friday! 

Important Dates to Remember:
October 15th - 7:00 p.m. PTO Meeting Bond Information Video (Free Childcare is available)
October 25th - Trunk or Treat 6:30-7:30 at Friendship Park
October 31st - Halloween Celebration 8;30-9:30, school wide parade at 9:45, 1/2 Day for Students
November 6th -  No School for students - Election Day 2018

Learning This Week:

• Writers will...
• look at more mentor texts and try what they find in their own writing
• use talking marks and try out using other words besides  "said"
• add strong feelings 
• make their pictures detailed to match their words
• Readers will...
• celebrate how far they've come since kindergarten and write new goals (habits) they will practice
• review the habit "trying it in two ways"
• review the habit "scooping up words in phrases"
• review the habit: "look at all the parts of the word"
• review the habit: "do a double check"
• Mathematicians will...
• represent subtraction with circle drawings
• act out subtraction story problems
• practicing drawing and writing subtraction equations
• bowl and record subtraction problems of 10
• In social studies students will continue to study our unique families. We will review what families need and want and how they meet those needs and wants. We will talk about how families care for each other and share our family generation homework. 

Photos from the week...

Sorting picture cards into groups: family, community, and school

 Looking at first grade mentor authors and sticky noting things we notice

 Checking our writing with our learning partners to make sure we spell word wall words correctly

 Sticky noting things we notice mentor authors doing

Playing "The Number Quilt Addition Game"

Using power sight words to make new words

Fire Cadets visit to teach us fire safety!

The time it took our firefighter to change into his uniform :) 

News for the week of 10/8

Notes from Ms. Rau:

• Our Halloween Celebration will be Wednesday, October 31st from 8:30-9:30. Students should come to school dressed in their costume! We will begin our party first thing in the morning and it will be followed by our school wide Halloween parade at 9:45am. We will end our morning watching a Halloween movie. I am looking for one more parent volunteer to run our Bingo station. This involves reading the Halloween bingo cards and purchasing/passing out small prizes if you wish (i.e. pencils, pre packaged candy, stickers, tattoos, etc.)
• If you are able to please send in a pair of headphones in a gallon size ziplock bag labeled with your child's name for them to use during our ipad time on Fridays from 1:30-2:00. We will be doing Raz-Kids on the ipads. Your child will keep their headphones in the top shelf of their locker until the end of the school year. Thank you! 

Important Dates to Remember:
October 12th - O.C.C Fire Cadets presenting Fire Safety in all classes
October 15th - 7:00 p.m. PTO Meeting Bond Information Video (Free Childcare is available)
October 25th - Trunk or Treat 6:30-7:30 at Friendship Park
October 31st - Halloween Celebration 8;30-9:30, school wide parade at 9:45

Learning This Week:

• Writers will...
• add exact action words to their writing
• add bold words to their writing
• add ellipses to their writing to build excitement 
• study some more mentor texts to see what authors do in their writing
• Readers will...
• introduce books to their partners before reading
• help their partner instead of telling their partner
• remember to do something at the end of their book like retelling the story
• celebrate their reading and set new goals
• read with their good habits in mind
• Mathematicians will...
• learn to solve addition equations by counting on from the bigger number
• play the "unknown totals" addition game
• play the "number quilt" game
• represent subtraction with circle drawings
• In social studies students will study what groups they belong to (i.e. school, family, community). We will learn how families are special and make a family members class book. We will review needs and wants and learn how families get what they need and want. 

Photos from the week...

Working in our phonics rug clubs to spell our snap words correctly

 
 

Studying snap words closely and sorting them by if they short vowel power or not

 

Fixing up our writing by adding capital letters and periods.

 

Creating equal and unequal math equations! Trying to trick our partners!

  
 

Playing "Guess the Covered Word" with reading partners

 
 

Studying a mentor text, The Night of the Veggie Monster, and marking interesting things the author did in his writing. 

 

Enjoying the Webber Wiggle