Thank you to all of the parents who turned in the “Student Information sheet”. I enjoyed learning more about your child and will work very hard to ensure their first grade experience is a wonderful one!
This week in Social Studies, we worked on coming up with our class rules. And they are as followed: 1. Say “I can do it!” and always try your best, 2. Listen and follow directions when the teacher is talking, 3. Help others out, 4.Keep hands and feet to ourselves, 5. Use your manners, and 6. Be respectful when others are working. Together as a class we also came up with rewards and consequences and talked about how we can be good classroom citizens. That is someone who is a role model to others in our classroom and school.
In math, we have been focusing on the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. We started working on finding partners for each number. For example, for 5-partners it can be 3 and 2, 1 and 4, and 0 and 5. We have also discussed during math talk about pentagons, triangles, squares, rectangles, and circles. Have your child tell you something about these shapes.
In Wilson’s Fundations, we have worked on learning the letters a, b, c, f, I, m, n, r, and t this week. I am already seeing improvement with handwriting! After we have finished all of the lower case letters, we will begin emphasizing our names and writing those the best we can. We spend so much time on handwriting at the beginning of the year so that the rest of the year they will know how to form their letters correctly.
In reading, we have been discussing how important it is to read as much as possible, because “the more we read, the better we read!” This can be books, signs, video games, things on television, the comics, or anything else they can find.
In writing, we have been focusing on using correct spaces in our story and adding more to our story because “When we are done, we have just begun.” It’s important to go back and add more to our picture, more to our writing, and then starting another piece.
Important information:
- I would first like to thank all of the parents for bringing in so many wonderful supplies for the beginning of the year.
- We went to the library last week and had a chance to check out 2 library books each. They are the very first students to check these books out, so please make sure to take care of the books. I will allow students to go the library and check out new books in the morning before the bell rings and any free time throughout the day.
- Bus riders are required by Wake County to wear their bus tags for the first 20 days of school. Please make sure your child returns their bus tag each day! We want to make sure they are getting off at the appropriate stop.
- Homework will always be due on Friday. I will have students pull out their homework on Friday mornings, so it should stay in the folder till Friday. I will not pull it out before then.
- Please keep the “Home-School Connection” in the homework folder. I will collect those on Monday and keep for my records. Thanks for your understanding.
Important dates for your calendar:
- Sunday, July 24th- Caitlin’s birthday
- Wednesday, July 27th- Fredy’s birthday
- Thursday, July 28th- PTA meeting and Ice Cream social at 6:30
- Friday, July 29th- Early Release at 1:15
- Tuesday, August 9th- Picture Day for tracks 1 and 2
- Thursday, August 11th- Spirit Night at Pelican’s from 3:00 to 10:00
- Thursday, August 18th- Open House Tracks 1 and 3 are 5:00 to 6:00 and Tracks 2 and 4 are 6:00 to 7:00
- Friday, August 19th- Early Release at 1:15
*Wish List
- Packages of brightly colored Xerox paper and card stock
- Magnetic Tape
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