News from First Grade Week of Oct. 7

Upcoming Events:

* Parent Teacher Conferences Oct. 24 and Oct. 28(4-7:30)  

*Oct. 24 and Oct. 28 Early Out (1 hour)

*Oct 24 Clubs Choice Pick-Up

Notes:

*Please remember to return your spelling contracts on Friday.  

Clubs ChoiceThe fundraiser - Clubs Choice food will be delivered to the school on Thursday, October 24th.  It is very important that you come to school to pick up the food you sold as most of it needs to be kept cold.

Things to Work on:

*Recognizing literacy elements (characters, setting, problem, solution)

*Throughout this year we will study four major components of reading: CAFÉ (Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary).  This week we focused on literacy elements under the comprehension component.

What we have been up to:

Reading: We worked with the sounds: gr, tr, and cr.  Students sorted words by these sounds and looked in books for words with these sounds.  We have made a poster of words with these sounds and our list is growing each day.  If you child finds a word with these sounds they can bring it in on a notecard and we can add it to our posters.

Math: We have been very busy learning this week in math. We have learned about nickels and pennies, counting on from the larger number, and working with subtraction story problems.  Students have learned a new math game.  Students roll a die and collect as many pennies as are on the die.  When they have five pennies they trade for a nickel.

Science:  This week we have continued our study on matter.  We have learned more about solids, liquids, and gases.  We learned that you can change the shape of matter but it doesn’t change the mass of the object.  We also learned how a liquid takes the shape of its container.  Students worked on sorting pictures into three categories: solids, liquids, and gas.