1. Our 1st Grade Classroom News
Week of October 30th – November 3rd
Important Information
Dates to know
* We are looking forward to a fun Halloween with Early Release too! Thank you to everyone that signed up to contribute to our special snack. Parents are welcome to attend at 12:45 also! No Homework on Tuesday!!!
* Reminder: Girls need one black pillowcase and boys need one tan pillowcase by October 30th please so we can begin making our Pilgrim and Indian outfits!
10/31: Early Release/End of 1st Quarter
10/31: Halloween Snack – 12:45
11/1: No School for students (Teacher Workday)
11/3: RES Spirit Day
11/9: Report Cards go home
11/10: No School!
11/17: Thanksgiving Feast- 11:30
11/22-11/24: No School
12/1: RES Spirit Day
12/13: Progress Reports
12/14: Christmas
Party at 2:15
12/15: Early Release
3/8: Field Trip to
Morehead Planetarium
Our Learning Focus
Theme: Halloween
Math: Developing strategies for addition and subtraction, place value with tens/ones, & exploring relationships between # combinations
Phonics: We will continue to focus on Bonus Letters & the glued sound “all” (glued sounds stick together).
Reading Focus: Identifying the main topic and retelling key details of a story
Writing Focus: Writing informative/explanatory texts that name a topic, supplies facts about that topic, and provides some sense of closure
Science: Balance and Motion
Words to Remember
WWW: No Words this week since it’s a short week! We will review previously learned words.
Word Families: Review