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Miss Southern's first grade class is learning about kindness, math, reading, writing, and science. For math homework, assignments will be sent home on Mondays and are due Fridays. Spelling homework for Unit 1 is due October 14th. During morning meetings, students discuss kindness and their names are added to a "Kindness Tree" for acts of kindness. Reading lessons include word patterns, synonyms, predicting, and fluency. In writing, students are brainstorming ideas and applying spelling patterns. Math lessons include numbers, time, and money. Science focuses on the properties of air. Paw Pass rewards are scheduled for Friday after counting paws on Thursday. Parent visitation days are October 14th and 15

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Oct 7 News

Miss Southern's first grade class is learning about kindness, math, reading, writing, and science. For math homework, assignments will be sent home on Mondays and are due Fridays. Spelling homework for Unit 1 is due October 14th. During morning meetings, students discuss kindness and their names are added to a "Kindness Tree" for acts of kindness. Reading lessons include word patterns, synonyms, predicting, and fluency. In writing, students are brainstorming ideas and applying spelling patterns. Math lessons include numbers, time, and money. Science focuses on the properties of air. Paw Pass rewards are scheduled for Friday after counting paws on Thursday. Parent visitation days are October 14th and 15

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The News From Our Room!

Miss Southerns First Grade Class


Room A111
October 7, 2015

Homework
Math homework will be in your childs classroom mailbox to go home every Monday. It is due every Fr
The math assignments coming home reinforce what we are currently learning, or previously acquire

Spelling homework for Unit 1 is due on Wednesday October 14th. Usually there isnt any homework a

Morning Meetings
In Unit 1 of Superkids, we read A Patch in a Pinch. A theme of this story is
showing kindness, helpfulness, and understanding. During our morning
meetings, weve listed ways to show kindness in school. I introduced a
Kindness Tree, which is hanging on our classroom bulletin board.
Whenever students are seen or heard showing kindness to a classmate, I
write their name on a paper leaf and add the leaf to the tree. We are
excited to see how full our tree can be! Some examples of kindness
seen/heard so far:
Please and thank you
Tying a friends shoe
Helping a friend pick up something that fell, or a mess
Reminding someone of a direction they forgot in a kind tone
Volunteering to walk a friend to the nurses office
Volunteering to be a friends partner, or include a friend in an

More on the back

Reading
*Reading and spelling words with the sh, ch, & tch patterns.
* Building words with these patterns by adding vowels and initial
sounds. Determining whether words built are real or nonsense.
* Synonyms = words that mean the same thing
* Predicting- how to make predictions, how to talk about predictions,
using I wonder if and I think that statements, and understanding
that making predictions trains our brains to pay close attention to what
happens in a story
* Fluency: Reading smoothly and accurately
*Memory words I, she, his, her, he, my
*Read to Self/ Read to Someone: Building reading stamina
*Pronouns

Writing
Using lists to brainstorm ideas for writing
Writing about personal adventures weve had
Applying sh, ch, tch and our memory words to our natural writing
accurately

Math
*Counting up and back on a number grid
*Writing numerals 7-9
*Reviewing facts within 5
*Phone numbers
*Finding pairs of numbers with sums of 10
Our focus this unit lies strongly in Oerations and algebraic thinking
and Measurement and data.
We will be moving forward with analog clocks, reviewing time to the
hour, and counting pennies and nickels next week.

Science
*Air: What is it? Where is it? How does it move? We are in our first
Foss Science unit about air. In the coming weeks we will do many
experiments that test these questions.

Keep going

Our School Community


Paw Pass Redemption is scheduled for Friday. On Thursday, the
children will count up their paws and record their totals on their
menus. The menu will come home Thursday night. As part of
Thursdays homework, please go over the menu with your
child. Talk about how many paws he/she has, how many
he/she would like to spend, and what some of the shortterm and long-term reward choices are that your child is
interested in.
Please help your child to fill out the menu by checking off
which reward choice(s) he/she would like to pick this round.
Send it back on Friday. Thanks!

Announcements

Reminders
Rise and Shine
Breakfast Program
began September 28.
You can find more info
about this program in
the Main Office
newsletter.
Math homework is due
Friday
Monday October 12th is
an in-service day.
There is no school for
students.
Spelling homework is
due Wednesday
October 14th.

Parent visitation
days are fast
approaching. If you
are interested in
coming in to see a
glimpse of your
childs school day,
we invite you to
choose one of the
following days to
come in:
Wed. Oct 14th from
9:30-10:30 -orThursday Oct. 15th
from 1-2 pm
There is a note with
ore information in
todays Wed.
Envelope.
* Parent Teacher
Conference sign ups for
Fall Conferences are done
online. Please see the
note in todays Wed.
Envelope. My link will be

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