An Exciting Week in First Grade!

As you can imagine, this will be a fun and busy week in our classroom.  We will be learning about spiders, bats, pumpkins, and fall fun.  This will be a brief update, but filled with some important reminders. :)

Word Wall:  Our six new words for this week are:  up, but, like, day, thing, & are  Please practice reading these words (and all of our Word Wall Words) quickly and fluently.

Spelling:   Our short vowel focus will be on the short u sound and on building many different word families using this vowel sound.  Ex:  cut, but, hut, shut....  bug, dug, hug, tug...

Writing:  We will look through our writing folders and select one favorite 'small moment' personal narrative story this week.  We will use checklists and work with partners to edit and revise our stories to make them the best they can be!  At the end of the week, we will read our stories to another class as a way to celebrate our great work!

Math:  We will review subtraction, whole = part + part, whole - part = part, and problem solving this week as we prepare to work on another math assessment as first graders!  I will send home our completed assessments for you to review with your child.  Please sign and return all math assessments this year.

Reminders:
* Eagle's Silent Auction is coming SOON!  Please send in all donations for our gift basket this week. You can send in actual gift cards or a cash donation to be put towards the purchase of gift cards.  No donation is too small!  Thank you for supporting this terrific fundraiser for our school.
* Please send in all items to help build and decorate our Fall/Halloween Graham Cracker Houses by Wednesday. We will decorate the houses on Friday at 2:15 in our classroom.  I will send home a note.  Please let me know if you will be joining us so that we can partner up children accordingly.   Thank you! :)
* Wednesday, October 28th:  11:45 dismissal for children due to parent-teacher conferences.
* Friday, October 30th: Children do not wear costumes to school, but can certainly dress in festive orange and black.  The Spooktacular will be hosted by Eagle's PTO in the evening.  This is a great time to showcase your costumes! :)

I am looking forward to an exciting and busy week in First Grade!

Eileen Browne