Fantastic Friday News!

This Week: 

We had a fantastic 2nd week of school. This week, we started doing actual first grade work! The students did great! Here’s a recap:

Reading: For reading, we started discussing about a weekly program we will do called Weekly 4. Every week, students will read to self, read to someone, word work, and work on writing. We work with building stamina so that the students can do independent work for up to 20 minutes! This week, we established that we need to read a lot to become better readers and because reading is fun!

We also discussed what Read to Self looks like - read the whole time, read quietly, stay in one spot, start reading right away, and build stamina. Next week we will start to put that into practice and start to build our stamina.

For Math, we started in the first unit where we learned tally, and practiced writing our numbers (so easy). We also played a few math games in partners and by ourselves. Today we did rock, paper, scissors, and tallied how many times rock won, how many times, paper won, how many time scissors won, and how many times it was a tie. The students had fun and worked great in their groups!

Bible: We started with the first story in the Bible- Creation! We learned that God created the whole world and everything in it in 6 days. On the 7th day, he rested! He saw all that he had made and it was all good! Until... Adam and Eve disobeyed God and so sin was introduced into the world. We will continue next week with Noah and the flood as well as a few other stories. 

Phonics: This week we have reviewed all the letters of the alphabet and all their sounds!

Writing: For writing, we started only a few days of Writer’s Workshop. 

Write together - Teacher will model the writing strategy

You write! - Students will write a story

Author’s Chair - Students can share their writings with the class

Social Studies - We started with learning about the globe and a map. We also put a sticky note on all the places that 1.1 students have ever visited or lived! Wow, we are world travelers!

Next Week:

No School on Monday! - September 1st - Labor Day

1st and 2nd graders will be going to Toguchi Beach for a Field Trip on September 26, Friday from 10:30-2:00pm. All parents are invited to join. Please check and sign the permission slip and send it back to school by September 5th. For any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! 

Spelling Words: am at cat can man ran had has I the

Bible Memory: “I have hidden your words in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11

As always, please don't hesitate to email me with any questions. Enjoy your weekend!

-Ms. Turner