Welcome November!

I hope you all had a fun weekend!  I wanted to take a minute to thank you for all of your support last week.  We had so much fun building and decorating our Haunted  Houses with all of the supplies and treats that were sent in.  We also now have a wonderful gift basket FILLED with gift cards donated by first grade families for Eagle's Silent Auction.  THANK YOU!!!  Be sure to check out the Silent Auction Tuesday, November 3rd at our school.  It is a terrific event with some great raffles and prizes.

Below is a peek at some of our first grade learning for this week ~

Word Wall & Spelling:  Our six new words are:  one, her, get, then, when, & look.  We will also work on the short e sound in spelling.  We will read and write words in many different short e word families:  get, let, met, set...  best, west, crest...  etc.

Reading:  We will be working on decoding strategies this week as readers.  We will talk a lot about what to do when you're stuck on a word as a reader.  Be sure to ask your child all about some skills that we use each day during independent reading, partner reading, and small group reading.

Writers:  We are working on finishing up our stories that we are most proud of.  We plan on reading our small moment stories to Mrs. Crawley's 2nd graders this week!  We are super excited to share our work.  We will write one more personal narrative this week before moving into our next writing unit.

Math:  We will work on building numbers in Ten Frames this week.  This is a rather quick unit that is mostly review of building parts to make numbers within a ten frame.  We will continue to talk about whole = part + part.

Social Studies: During the months of November & December, we will read, write, and learn all about different types of families.  We will discuss families of long ago and families of today.  Please see the letter that your child will bring home this week regarding a Family Project.  Work together, have fun, be creative, and return the projects as you complete them.  The due date for all family projects is November 16th.  This will allow us time to share our projects with one another. We will also invite families into our classroom on November 19th at 2:00 .  Please see the letter for more details! :)

Thank you so much for your ongoing support.

Sincerely,
Eileen Browne