Saturday, October 23, 2021

First Grade Happenings from 10/18- 10/22








What a fantastic week of learning our First Graders had!  A special thank you goes out to the Farr Family for donating vines, flowers, pumpkins, squash and corn from their farm!  Hands-on learning is a vital part of our instruction.  This made our study of the pumpkin life cycle so exciting! 


FRIDAY LETTERS ARE COMING HOME!  

Today our learners wrote their first Friday Letters to their families.  These letters tell a little snippet about our week.  They are a great way for families to learn more about our week and watch our learners progress as writers throughout the year.  Sometimes our Friday Letters might be a bit tough to read. If you can't read your child's letter, just ask them to tell you about their week.  Please write a note back to them, they love to read your letters! Help your learner remember to return the notebook by next Friday so they can write back to you. 


Here are a few other things about our week:

  • We explored the pumpkin life cycle

  • Worked on vowel sounds in CVC words

  • We added the sight words - that, to, one, are, you

  • Learned the properties of triangles and quadrilaterals

  • We added brave beginnings to our narratives

  • Brought home our book bags (these will come back and forth to school)

  • We wrote our first Friday Letters

  • Crazy Hair Day!!!


Here’s what’s on deck for next week:

  • New reading strategies for solving tricky words

  • Add more sight words 

  • Add exciting words to our narratives

  • Story event sequencing

  • Wrap up our geometry unit and start on next math unit

  • Focus on short vowel sounds a,e,i,o,u

  • Expand our pumpkin life cycle unit into other types of farms

  • Learn how farms help Vermont






 

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